In a combined effort of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and private industry (Applanix and Riegl), two different but complimentary technologies were tested in the marine survey field to...

Odom Hydrographic Systems has presented the ES3-M, a portable, beam-forming multi-beam that incorporates the best features of products from two industry leaders in one compact package.   The result of...

Kongsberg Seatex, the position reference systems division of Kongsberg Maritime celebrated a significant achievement in the development of its Motion Reference Unit (MRU) today (March 11th 2008) by presenting Subsea...

In January 2001, C&C Technologies (C&C), a company based in Lafayette (Louisiana, USA), introduced the first commercially successful autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the offshore industry. The AUV’s survey sensor...

OceanTools has launched their MircoFOG north-seeking fibre-optic gyrocompass. MicroFOG delivers a wide range of parameters including heading, pitch, roll, rate information in three axes, accelerations and, shortly will include heave...

Nautronix has completed the first field-wide deployment of NASNet by Subsea 7, in the Agbami field, offshore Nigeria. The field is operated by Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited (an affiliate...

This article is about my thesis project, which I did in collaboration with Auke van der Werf at the Dutch Nautical Academy at Terschelling (the Netherlands). The research for the...

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...

The Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe (SAUC-E) is an annual event providing an opportunity for student-led teams to design and build a small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to compete...

Aker Yards (Norway) has delivered subsea construction vessel the Skandi Acergy, to DOF Subsea ASA. The vessel, 157 meters in length and 27 meters in breadth, is designed for deep...