Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL) a designer, manufacturer and supplier of laser-based products and positioning and navigation systems, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with the launch of a new web-site. MDL...

We all know what is the oldest profession in the world. The second oldest is probably that of land surveyor: Adam undoubtedly wanted to stake out the boundaries of paradise...

The 11th Edition of the Global Maritime Boundaries Database, or "GMBD," provides a concise, GIS-based, research tool containing the current state of global maritime claims, boundaries and related information mined...

HYDRO’06, the fifteenth international congress of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), took place at Provincial House, Antwerp, Belgium from 6th to 9th November 2006. The event attracted 270...

The oceans are a central part of the global climate system. As Roger Revelle, one of the early directors of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, said, “The oceans exert a...

The IHO/IOC Guiding Committee for the General bathymetric Charts of the Oceans (GEBCO) meets in conjucntion with the IOC Consultative Group on Ocean Mapping (CGOM) on 14-23 June 2006 in...

Over the past thirteen years Douglas-Westwood Limited has produced a series of occasional techno-economic studies of the Ocean Survey industry. This latest, The World Ocean Survey Report 2004-2008 aims to...

After working for eighteen years with the trailer department of a dredging company, Stef Mars started his own hydrographic survey company in 1985. Working on board of hopper trailer suction...

The seabed of the Dutch sector of the North Sea is one of most densely sampled marine areas in the world. Sampling started in the mid-1960s with the exploration of...

The coastal zone of Nigeria has in recent years been subjected to increasing economic activities, primarily driven by seaport activities and oil exploration and exploitation. These activities have reportedly resulted...