The 4th international conference on high-resolution surveys in shallow waters took place in Plymouth (UK) from 12 to 15 September. The conference focused on the ‘Common Data Set’ (comparison data...

Survey specifications such as the Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) require a specified number of hits on a given target size and a specified overlap in Special Order areas. In...

Two decades ago as CO of a survey ship, I interpreted the SSS-registrations (still on wet paper) twice. Once was for nautical charting purposes and the second, in my own...

The hydrographic community has tumbled headlong into a data boom. Hundreds of single-beam soundings are now replaced by millions of high-resolution multi-beam swath soundings. This boom is not free from...

The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) has and will be utilising airborne LIDAR bathymetry in connection with the ongoing effort to modernise the maritime infrastructure along the Norwegian coast. This article...

The United States is conducting multi-beam surveys of the US continental margins where a potential exists for a claim under United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)...

  Maps can make the invisible visible – particularly relevant for hydrographic surveyors and geophysicists, who cannot see what they are surveying with the naked eye. Recall the curiosity at...

Cheetah Marine have recently launched the third 7.9m Cheetah catamaran to incorporate Cheetah’s trademark Hydropod Survey Mount Moonpool System with the Reson Seabat 7125 Multibeam Echosounder. Clydeside Surveys, a well...

This writer was unable to take in the complete conference but from the part attended and the available programme can report on this interesting meeting. FEMME Conferences are held approximately...

This is the continuation of the Oceanology International Preview. For companies A - L, see part 1  MacArtney Underwater Technology Group MacArtney will be introducing their newest innovation in multiplexers...