A recent offshore exercise, conducted by Oil Spill Response Ltd. (OSRL, UK), was designed to understand how remote sensing technologies can help detect oil spills at sea more effectively. Utilising...

Dr. Conor Cahalane performs applied research using satellite, airborne and UAV data for coastal mapping and monitoring at the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG), Maynooth University and the Irish Centre for...

Benjamin Busse is a UAV pilot and expert in cartography and geomatics at the Karlsruhe-based Ingenieur Team GEO engineering office.

During September 2017, the world’s first autonomous hydrographic survey was performed. 'Autonomous' means not by remote control, but rather that the autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) used guidance from survey software...

The 8th International Conference on High Resolution Surveys in Shallow Water is now accepting abstracts for its conference. The event will take place at the Delta Hotel in St. John’s,...

By providing vessel-to-vessel and vessel-to-shore communication independent of satellite or cellular networks, the Maritime Broadband Radio (MBR) system from Kongsberg introduces possibilities to transform survey operations. Potential applications include delivery...

The cover of this edition of Hydro International shows imagery acquired with the Kongsberg EM 2040P MKII, an advanced shallow water multibeam echosounder. In this issue, you will fi nd...

Hydrographic surveying is highly specific and requires a suite of advanced acquisition and positioning sensors attached to a mobile survey platform as well as sophisticated software to allow the correct...

A surging interest in remote sensing and analytics has seen technology developments linked to these domains take off over the past couple of years. Airborne Lidar bathymetry (ALB) is no...

To gain real insight into today’s hydrographic business landscape, Hydro International asked some of the sector’s most influential companies for their opinions. This series of Q&As focuses on the current state...