East Australia Region Commander (CMDR) John Maschke of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and chair of the East Australia Region of the Australasian Hydrographic Society was recently elected to the...

iXSea launched HYDRINS, a new real time solution for hydrographic surveyors. A navigation system which interfaces with a multibeam sounder HYDRINS provides real time, high accuracy bathymetric data which is...

Charles Martin was born in Cape Town and schooled at Bishops, where he played moderate rugby, bad cricket and was a reluctant member of the choir for a few years....

In 1958 Commander Hunt MBE, RN was about to undertake a survey in HMNZS <i>Lachlan</i> to complete NZ Chart 61, which included part of the rugged West Coast of the...

Within the last twenty years Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers have revolutionised navigation. Integrated devices are capable of providing time, position, height, direction, heave and attitude to accuracies of a...

Fugro has introduced a new service called Fugro High Performance (HP) with design goal of 0.2m 95 per cent horizontal and 0.3m 95 per cent vertical. Both monitoring data and...

Applanix has announced that its POS MV product line has been enhanced by the introduction of TrueHeave technology. This improved filtering tool provides much more accurate heave estimation, even in...

When Oi08 opens at the ExCeL centre in London’s Docklands on 11 March, the exhibition and its accompanying conference will focus on the three important issues that have begun to...

iXSea launched a dedicated subsea Inertial Navigation System (INS), PHINS 6000. PHINS 6000 is a subsea application for iXSea’s standard setting PHINS. It can provide subsea vessels with position (X,...

Radar Remote Sensing of ocean surface waves may in general be defined as measuring characteristics of the sea surface by means of electromagnetic waves so that the sea surface is...