Not long before this issue of Hydro International went to press, a major problem with Galileo, the European equivalent of the American GPS system, occurred. A few days later, the...

Hydrographic surveying is highly specific and requires a suite of advanced acquisition and positioning sensors attached to a mobile survey platform as well as sophisticated software to allow the correct...

'Hull to Hull' (H2H), an EU-funded research project established to develop technical solutions for safer navigation in close proximity to other stationary or moving vessels and objects, is in its...

Oceaneering has announced the release of the C-Nav5000 GNSS receiver, which uses 252 tracking channels capable of tracking phase and code of all available constellations, including GPS, GLONASS, Beidou and...

Hemisphere GNSS has introduced the all-new Vector V1000 GNSS receiver, which provides high-accuracy heading, position, pitch, roll and heave data. The V1000 supports multi-frequency GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS and...

GNSS has now been operational in the surveying industry, and especially in hydrography, for more than 25 years. Whereas the first receivers such as the Sercel NR103 (once the workhorse...

Septentrio recently awarded the KU Leuven Ecochallenge team – the winners of the Galileo Masters (Flanders Challenge) of the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) – a special prize of the...

SBG Systems has released a new version of the Ellipse Series, its product line of miniature inertial sensors. The Ellipse has been improved, showing increased performance in attitude and heave...

Currently, there are four global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) available: GPS, Glonass, Beidou and Galileo. These satellites can be used directly, but accuracy is greatly improved when using orbit, clock...

The bi-annual event Ocean Business is coming to the NOC, Southampton from 4-6 April 2017. Three days of ocean technology engineering and science, knowledge sharing, hands-on training and demos as...