Located in the Woodville Karst Plain stretching south from Tallahassee to the Gulf of Mexico, Florida’s Wakulla Springs is one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world....

US HYDRO 2005 was the tenth in the well-known series of Hydrographic conferences, workshops and exhibitions that alternate between the United States and Canada. It was this year organised and...

Tides and currents are giving hydrography an extra (some say challenging) aspect, which has to be accounted for. If you are measuring ‘absolute’ water depths, as do surveyors for nautical...

When Andrews considered a new coastal hydrographic vessel, a smaller RIB best suited their customers’ survey needs, but would it meet the strict requirements for MCA Accreditation? Roy Jarman, Andrews...

SeaRobotics Corporation was formed in 1999 to commercialise technology developed by the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). After working with Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology and developing numerous...

A great deal of metadata is registered during hydrographic survey. This data (information on survey conditions, online and offline filter settings and calibrations) is essential for assessment of the quality...

Developments in science and technology bring new chances and working methods to our industry; for example, scribbling tide-pole readings in a paper notebook, although still a good working method is...

Mesuris SA was founded in France in July 1993 with its main initial purpose being the distributor of survey equipment within France. The company headquarters are in St Grégoire France,...

The recent arrival in Bridgetown of the massive Cunard flagship Queen Mary II has caused a minor parking problem. With a length of 345m and a draft of 9.7m she...

Shallow Survey 2005 Common Dataset Comparisons As part of the Shallow Survey Conference 2005 held in Plymouth, swath sonar manufacturers were invited to survey a common dataset. Two regions were...