The growing offshore exploration of the 1980s led to a booming need for survey-ships and many vessel-operating companies were founded, sometimes with only one old vessel. Saturation of the market...

The US Navy has a strong tradition in hydrography and has restated its commitment to this field by naming the Commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command as the...

To identify geohazards and constraints for seabed infrastructure, the data from various types of survey of the seabed and sub-seabed such as bathymetry, seabed morphology, geology, geotechnical and environmental can...

Hydroid LLC has recently hired Wayne Gonsalves for the position of Production Manager. Wayne has over twenty-five years of experience in manufacturing of complex oceanographic instruments and systems. He brings...

A future article in Hydro international will describe our recent multi-beam survey of the Dead Sea. This brief overview extols the virtues of renting a complete multi-beam system as opposed...

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...

The speed in the development of new survey systems, their high acquisition costs and precision installation requirements, combined with the need to mount them on board vessels which are executing...

To support the production and maintenance of navigational charts, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) receives large quantities of bathymetric data from a great number of sources. This data is...

In common with all sciences, hydrography too is undergoing rapid change with regard to data acquisition and processing, instrumentation, application and many other aspects. Differing ideas may be found within...

A historic perspective of nautical charts production in Chile over recent years is given here. The experience of the Chilean Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service may serve other Offices encountering...