The key objective was to make a rapid and accurate determination of the source of the diesel and oil that had appeared on the ocean’s surface. The company carried out hydrographic survey work using a Norbit Winghead i77h multibeam echosounder (MBES) system. An oil slick was seen on the surface of Nootka Sound and staining on rocks of nearby Bligh Island, west of Vancouver Island, Canada, in late 2020. This set in...

Hydro International invited various leading experts with different professional backgrounds to share their thoughts on the present and future of the hydrographic industry. In this interview, Commodore Stewart Dunne, Hydrographer...

Hexagon, a global leader in digital reality solutions, today announced R-evolution’s efforts to map the threatened seagrass meadows of the Caribbean islands, beginning with the coastal waters of the Bahamas....

iXblue has launched its first Remotely Operated Towed Vehicle (ROTV): FlipiX. Designed to be operated autonomously from an iXblue DriX Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) or from a light vessel, FlipiX...

International subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has entered into a global rental partnership with Switzerland-based Hydromea, the innovative subsea wireless access provider. Under the deal, Ashtead Technology will actively...

Autonomous underwater vehicles have become versatile tools for exploring the seas. However, they can be disruptive to the environment or have trouble travelling through confined spaces. Purdue University researchers are...

WASSP has released the latest version of its S3 dedicated hydrographic survey MBES with the roll-out of a new real-time processing module. The S3 is launched as one of the...

With the ever-increasing and affordable availability of capacity and computing power to process and store data, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in marine geomatics, ocean sciences and hydrography is...

Hydrographic measurements are nowadays usually carried out using multibeam echosounders (MBES). The measurements obtained by each operational hydrographic vessel need to be regularly controlled on a well-known area to validate...

Currently, calibration of multibeam echosounders (MBES) for hydrographic surveys is based on the traditional ‘patch test’ method. This subjective method, although rigorous, has major drawbacks, such as being time-consuming (in...