The Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe (SAUC-E) is an annual event providing an opportunity for student-led teams to design and build a small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to compete...

Miniature sonars, engineered by Tritech International, have been invaluable in helping to uncover the deep secrets of Malta's historic fresh water systems. Several reservoir sites in Malta and Gozo have...

Challenging times for the offshore survey and metrology industry require innovative techniques and technologies that deliver operational efficiencies and productivity. And that, in the words of one of the co-chairmen...

Aerial mobile mapping using Lidar and GNSS-aided inertial navigation has revolutionised the efficiency of land and shallow-water bathymetric surveying. Now, fast ultra‑high resolution subsea mobile mapping is approaching. Millimetre-resolution Lidar...

Kraken Sonar’s German subsidiary, Kraken Robotik GmbH (KRG), will commence operations at the Bremen Innovation and Technology Centre from 1 January 2017. KRG will be led by Dr Jakob Schwendner...

UK-based subsea company Rovco has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Dr Iain Wallace as chief technology officer (CTO). The move reinforces the firm’s strategic vision to...

Subsea metrology procedures are expanding rapidly to provide ever-higher-accuracy solutions, so the publication by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) of a revised version of ‘Guidance on Subsea Metrology’ (IMCA...

Subsea Technology and Rentals (STR), a multi-disciplinary technology expert specialising in the design, production, rental and sale of innovative marine survey equipment, has become the first company to invest in...

Complex set-up operations, multiple topside systems and interfaces, and arduous workflows; these are all now in the past. Sonardyne’s Fusion 2 survey software combines intuitive workflows with faster, more flexible...

Australian headquartered subsea services specialist Neptune has become the latest company to adopt Sonardyne International's new all-in-one acoustic and inertial positioning technology platform to support its offshore survey projects. The...