CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) 3.0 includes the addition of a 64-bit application, resulting in faster displays, faster exports and other operations where raster processing is involved. HPD 3.0 also...

The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) is willing to make better use of the backscatter intensity data collected with their multibeam sounding systems. All the backscatter data collected during the last...

Traditionally, hydrographic data was used mainly for nautical charts. Hydrographic surveys are costly, and data should be used beyond navigation. Some have developed centralised hydrographic databases, but their only purpose...

On 1 October 2013, the US federal government entered into a shutdown. This meant that the about 800,000 civil workers have been sent home without pay, services were suspended and...

The US Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce is privatising the printing and distribution of nautical charts, including digital charts,...

NOAA's Office of Coast Survey, which creates and maintains the nation's suite of a thousand nautical charts of U.S. coastal waters, has announced major changes ahead for mariners and others...

Ships, barges, ferries and recreational boats in the busy New York Harbour will be able to navigate more safely thanks to an updated version of the harbour’s nautical chart recently...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) acquires hydrographic data around the coasts of the US and its territories using in-house surveys and contracting resources. Hydrographic data are primarily collected...

CARIS has announced the release of CARIS Easy View 4.0, a freeware data viewer for 2D and 3D data. CARIS Easy View 4.0 replaces the CARIS Easy View 2.0 which...

OceanWise, UK, has addressed the challenge of combining the fragmented features present in nautical charting and existing chart-derived products. Customers who have migrated to OceanWise’s innovative Marine Themes dataset will...