News On Friday 16th April 2004 the Hydrographic Society held a workshop in Zierikzee, sponsored by Noordhoek. The theme of the afternoon meeting was ‘ROV support for underwater construction’ and...

Google Earth has become a popular 3D web-mapping viewer, mainly due to the richness of satellite imagery in its primary database. However, the database contains very limited marine data. While...

Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) makes centimetric-resolution side-scan survey with high coverage rates a now affordable reality. The new generation of commercial systems deliver 5cm by 5cm resolution, maintained to the...

Netherlands authorities (Rijkswaterstaat and the Hydrographic Office of the Royal Netherlands Navy) are considering alternatives to singlebeam echosounding and MBES in the shallow water areas of their responsibilities. Airborne Lidar...

In 1999, the oil companies BP, Amoco, and Shell jointly published a document detailing the industry requirement for a survey AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) that stated: "For industry to adopt...

On 12 August 2002 IXSEA and OCEANO Technologies successfully completed their merger previously announced in March 2002, revolutionising the landscape of the positioning industry. With 100 staff and over 25...

Global Navigation and Hydrography is the theme of this issue. GALILEO has received a ‘green light’, GPS has planned some important improvements and GLONASS has entered on a significant development...

NATO’s SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN), La Spezia, Italy, conducts research in support of NATO’s undersea operational requirements. It operates the only ship jointly owned by all the NATO nations,...

While Google Earth is the best known 3D web-mapping viewer currently in the public domain, there are alternative virtual globe viewers available. In particular, this article focuses on the NASA...

While Google Earth is the best known 3D web-mapping viewer currently in the public domain, there are alternative virtual globe viewers available. In particular, this article focuses on the NASA...