Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air System (UAS) performed a five-day maritime surveillance demonstration aboard Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) Turva. The flight trials by the Border...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) and independent scientists gathered recently in Auburn, Maine, to evaluate the use of sensor-mounted unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, to gauge stream stage, velocity,...

How is the hydrographic profession doing as a business? In the run-up to the start of 2018, 'Hydro International' decided to turn its sounder on and listen to the voices of...

Septentrio recently awarded the KU Leuven Ecochallenge team – the winners of the Galileo Masters (Flanders Challenge) of the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) – a special prize of the...

Septentrio has launched the AsteRx-m2 and AsteRx-m2 UAS OEM boards. These two OEM boards, which bring the latest in GNSS positioning to the market with interference mitigation technology all on...

For the first time, a team of scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has successfully used a drone to collect marine air and water samples. The...

Subsea wireless automation provider WFS Technologies and marine rental equipment specialist Seatronics demonstrated UAS-to-ROV wireless communications at a Subsea Internet of Things event in Houston, USA. The demonstration took place on...

XPRIZE has announced the 21 teams representing 13 countries advancing in the USD7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. This three-year global competition challenges teams to advance ocean technologies for rapid, unmanned and...

A NEXUS 800 UAS powered by HYPACK has been provided to the US southeastern geospatial solutions company SurvTech. The company will use the device to acquire upland data simultaneous with...

RV 'Falkor' has left Darwin, Australia, to explore the poorly understood air-sea interactions across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The team of sea surface experts and marine geochemists on the...