Hydrography, as the science committed to safety of navigation, was centralised in our country 125 years ago by means of the creation of the SERVICIO DE HIDROGRAFêA NAVAL (SHN); its...

In line with developments in survey equipment, Japan Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department (JHOD) has constructed a new stream of digital hydrographic data that allows smooth transfer from survey vessel to...

The Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR) organised a workshop on Inland ECDIS in Strasbourg (France) on 14 May 2002. The workshop was about the present status of...

Hydrography, as the science committed to safety of navigation, was centralised in our country 125 years ago by means of the creation of the SERVICIO DE HIDROGRAFåA NAVAL (SHN); its...

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...

Fugro Survey Limited undertake a wide variety of offshore pipeline/asset inspection surveys for energy companies throughout the world, using side-scan sonar and multi-beam echo sounder data to ascertain the condition...

The acquisition of hydrographic data has successfully supported the production of paper and electronic navigational charts for many years. Hydrographic offices worldwide are rightly committed to providing products in which...

Kuwait is situated in the north-east corner of the Arabian peninsula and in the north-west corner of the Persian gulf. Because of this location and the unrivalled skills of its...

While the advantages of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for storing and displaying spatial data are widely recognised, the analytic capabilities are less well known outside the GIS community. Extensions to...

NATO’s SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN), La Spezia, Italy, conducts research in support of NATO’s undersea operational requirements. It operates the only ship jointly owned by all the NATO nations,...