Veripos has extended the Chinese coverage of its global GNSS-based precise positioning service for offshore oil and gas operators, establishing two new reference stations in Shanghai and Shenzhen. In South...

Detailed information and a fundamental understanding of the marine environment will make the difference in operating effective and responsible for-naval purposes. Over the last decade, international developments (such as the...

Sonsub will set up a centre in Aberdeen for advanced training and simulation dedicated to the Innovator and other heavy-work class ROV systems. The hardware and software will be provided...

This article is based on the results of a new studyThe AUV Gamechanger Report 2008-2017published by Douglas-Westwood Ltd. This report aims to consider the prospects for this game-changing technology and...

With the end of the Cold War in 1989, the military significance of the Arctic Ocean, where submarines of the superpowers had played ‘cat and mouse’ for decades, dramatically decreased....

In 2002, the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) established a Research and Development Department. This was to provide an independent group devoted to the investigation, development...

De Beers Marine routinely acquires ultra high-resolution geophysical data in support of its offshore mining and exploration programmes for diamondiferous placer deposits situated on the continental shelf off the West...

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...

During the 1990s De Beers Marine identified a major business opportunity in radically improving its geological modelling capability. It set up a project to deliver the necessary geophysical systems and...

3D Full Tensor Gradiometry (FTG) or high-precision moving platform gravity gradiometry measures the full gravity field in all directions. The technology was initially commercialised for the petroleum exploration industry to...