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...

Hydrographic offices (HOs) today exist in a world of accelerating technological change that is influencing human behaviour and creating new needs for and ways of exploiting data to understand our...

A reflective gaze toward the open sea might be how some of us ponder one of life’s riddles or dream away a warm holiday afternoon. However, for a creative Vancouver...

Fugro has been selected to chart the waters of South Australia’s Gulf St Vincent and Investigator Strait as part of the Australian Government’s HydroScheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP). The 998km2 survey...

Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a significant part of the water cycle that delivers anthropogenically derived and naturally occurring nutrients to coastal waters. As part of the drive to develop...

SevenCs, the company behind the world’s leading ECDIS software kernel, has announced the release of its S-101 Reader for FME (Feature Manipulation Engine). The development and release of the S-101...

High-resolution bathymetric surveys support aquaculture research and increase navigational safety. In a case study, Tim Webster reports how this is done at Cape John Peninsula in Canada. In a second...

There is a risk factor when navigating in and out of the busiest ports in the US, particularly at the helm of some of the world’s largest deep draft vessels....

Imagine you’re a port pilot, responsible for the safe passage of a cargo ship that’s about the same size as an aircraft carrier. It’s the middle of the night, it’s...

In a research paper recently published in History of Geo- and Space Sciences, National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientist Professor Philip Woodworth describes the history and basic principles of tidal prediction machines....