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Introducing GIS to Support Maritime Accessibility

The Port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest port and is one of the world’s key logistic hubs. Hydrographic data is critical to the Harbour master’s department for the operation of the Port of Rotterdam, to support the nautical accessibility of the deep-sea vessels by electronic nautical chart. The introduction of PortMaps enables the Port of Rotterdam to produce a wide variety of information products, including ENCs, from the Port’s survey data, in less than 48 hours. With over 500 line connections to and from more than 1,000 ports around the globe, the Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands is the cornerstone of international freight transport. It is the...

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Exciting Applications for Lidar

The RIEGL laser scanner company has been innovating laser scanning technology for more than 30 years. The equipment can be found in the most remote and even challenging locations across...

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SDB is Flying High

Hydrography has seen a decrease in capacity, with fewer survey ships available for surveys around the globe. Although there are certain regional differences, which means a decrease in some regions...

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Award for Hydrographic Lidar Scanner

On 15 May 2013, RIEGL won the Geospatial World Award in the category Geospatial Technology Innovation Surveying at the Geospatial World Forum Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for the RIEGL...

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Lidar Allows Sandy River to be Mapped

In September 2012, Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WSI) and Dewberry collected airborne topobathymetric Lidar data for the Sandy River in Oregon, USA. These data are being used to map channel and...

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