The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has announced that two ADMIRALTY distributors are now approved providers of ADMIRALTY Vector Chart Service (AVCS) Online, the shore-based version of the maritime chart service....

Mark Heine is chairman of the board and CEO of Fugro, with the headquarters in the Netherlands. Fugro is the leading and largest specialised survey company in the world, serving the full lifecycle of assets, and calls itself a Geo-data specialist. For the avid mountaineer Heine, challenges are never too high to take on, not even heading up a multinational in transition, from a company largely dependent on the oil and gas industry to one that wants to co-create a sustainable and liveable world. We talked to Mark Heine about leadership style, strategies for finding new employees, and Seabed 2030. About this ambitious project, Heine says ‘Commercial companies need to work together with NGOs and academia to make this happen.’ Mark Heine is chairman of the board and CEO of Fugro, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. Fugro is among the leading and largest specialized survey companies in the world,...

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) are working with the Southern Africa and Islands Hydrographic Commission (SAIHC) to establish regulations and legislation that promote the...

Jim Gardiner is a Research Scientist at Valeport Ltd.  He holds an MSc Applied Marine Science and a BSc (Hons) in Ocean Science – both from Plymouth University – and...

Richard Goosen is a senior hydrographer with Fugro and was the hydrographer in charge of the UKHO project in the Turks and Caicos and Belize. He joined Fugro in March...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is releasing a new edition of its Small Craft Folio for the 2020 sailing season. The 2020 edition will be released to support leisure and...

The Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System, RAMMS, was developed over a period of three years before it was officially launched in the summer of 2018. Senior hydrographer Richard Goosen describes how Fugro used the system for coastal and nearshore mapping at the paradisal Turks and Caicos Islands. Insight into the use of the Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System (RAMMS) for coastal and nearshore mapping at the paradisal Turks and Caicos Islands. The Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System,...

Richard Goosen is a senior hydrographer with Fugro and was the hydrographer in charge of the UKHO project in the Turks and Caicos and Belize. He joined Fugro in March...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has announced the appointment of Rear Admiral Peter Sparkes to the position of National Hydrographer and Deputy Chief Executive: a role that helps to improve...

Phil Payne, survey delivery manager of the UK Hydrographic Office talks about hydrographic programmes to support blue economic growth, intentional projects and the use of lidar for charting purposes. "There will be a continued drive towards autonomy and automated processing.” Phil Payne, survey delivery manager of the UK Hydrographic Office talks about hydrographic programmes to support blue economic growth, intentional projects and the use of lidar for charting purposes. ”There...