For the fourth year in succession, the IHB (International Hydrographic Bureau) Directing Committee held a workshop from 16th to 17th June 2003. About fifty people attended, among whom hydrographic or...

The importance of data availability is increasingly being recognised, not just as an important topic for an exclusive section of the geospatial community but all over the geospatial spectrum, including...

Hydroid LLC hired Graham Lester for the position of Director of Business Development. Graham has over twenty years of experience working in the marine and oceanographic field. He has fulfilled...

Since the 1940s the use of an electrical spark to produce an underwater acoustic pulse has become an industry standard in the retrieval of sub-bottom profile data. Although conceptually simple,...

Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL) has signed a contract with Wavefield InSeis AS to undertake a 10,000 km 2D seismic survey, with onboard data processing, over the company's licences...

Marine GeoSolutions (Pty) Ltd was contracted by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa to undertake a multibeam bathymetric survey of the northern KwaZulu-Natal submarine canyon system to define...

Many hydrographers consider the Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator (CUBE) algorithm a useful aid in processing bathymetric data and ‘measuring’ survey quality. This paper discusses extending the use of CUBE...

Imagenex Technology Corp, headquartered in Port Coquitlam, just outside Vancouver, specialises in advanced acoustic underwater sensors in combination with graphic visualisation tools. The Canadian firm endeavours to apply a unique...

On 16th November 2004 Denmark ratified the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and now has ten years to put claims for extension of its...

Lake Malawi, being close to 25,000 sq km, occupies over a fifth of Malawi and is a veritable inland sea. At its deepest it is over 700 metres, which is...