TCarta Marine, a global provider of geospatial products and services, has been contracted by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to provide a baseline dataset of water depths and seafloor...

Fugro has completed a data acquisition campaign over the Turks and Caicos Islands, marking the first commercial success of its Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System (RAMMS). Working under contract to...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has officially handed over marine geospatial data to the Guyanese Government after a campaign of hydrographic surveying. Delegates from UKHO presented the data to government...

L3 ASV has received UK government funding for a pioneering project on autonomous navigation of maritime vessels. The company will conduct a study with its partners in the Maritime & Coastguard...

On 17 September 2018, the Indonesian Hydrographic Office (Pushidrosal) organised an international seminar in Jakarta, Indonesia, to celebrate the 97th anniversary of World Hydrography Day (WHD). The objective of the...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has deployed a motorboat to survey the waters off Dominica as part of the Commonwealth Marine Economies (CME) programme. Following a stakeholder meeting with Dominica’s...

Hydrographic Offices have realised that bathymetric data is not sufficiently represented in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs). A few aspects of this topic have already been touched upon in the presentation...

Ocean plastics, coastal resilience and the Blue Economy were high on the agenda at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018, where a commitment to support and drive ocean...

The Service of Hydrography, Oceanography, Meteorology and Nautical Charting (SHN) of the Venezuelan Navy recently initiated a series of tasks aimed at guaranteeing the safety of navigation along Venezuela’s main...

By the end of this year, the gap will have finally closed on the mandatory requirements for ships to carry an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), with all...