Twenty years ago, Norcom Technology first began to develop their bespoke software for the hydrographic industry. The company started by Phil Harris in 1986 employed just one other computer programmer,...

A B$9.5 million project for the delivery of Brunei's national Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was officially contracted end of April 2007 during a signing ceremony between the Ministry of Development...

CARIS has released HIPS Version 6.0 off-the-shelf bathymetric data cleaning and validation software integrated with powerful vector product creation. Highlights of this release include new CUBE (Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry...

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 two most significant developments in navigation for many decades have been the introduction of global satellite navigation systems, such as GPS, and the electronic chart. In the case of...

The 2002 first edition of this book came rightly to be known as the definitive textbook on ECDIS. The second edition is even better, so much so that you should...

This paper describes the development of a web spatial image server used for sharing huge sets of georeferenced coastal orthophotos on the web via an easy visualisation interface. Traditional cartography...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) co-operate and consult on numerous projects of common interest related to the safety of navigation and protection of the...

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...

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...