When asked to do an article on low cost hydrography within the offshore construction industry the first word that sprang to mind was 'cheap'. However 'cheap' might not be 'cost...

Being young does not mean being behind. Nortek AS has set out to prove that a young company can help push the industry forward, and it has come a long...

The use of swathe systems in a highly mobile, shallow-water environment poses significant problems for the hydrographic surveyor. Several physical factors encountered when gathering swathe data are introduced and described...

Italy is the first nation officially to adopt ECS systems - other than ECDIS - as equivalent standard to paper charts. The approved ECS systems, as defined by issued standard,...

The idea of a Universal Hydrographic Database is well known within the hydrographic community. Years of discussion and technological development have made UHD an attractive goal for those striving to...

In September 2001, the University of Southern Mississippi, in conjunction with the US Navy, established an Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Laboratory to conduct Research, Development, Test and...

The importance of data availability is increasingly being recognised, not just as an important topic for an exclusive section of the geospatial community but all over the geospatial spectrum, including...

International Communications and Navigation Ltd (ICAN) is a product development and systems integration company incorporated in 1996. The company has its headquarters in St John’s, Canada with offices in Quebec...

The Delta T multibeam profiling system is now compatible with the comprehensive hydrographic data processing system HIPS & SIPS, available from CARIS. This data cleaning and validation tool can take...

Northrop Grumman has received type approval from the U.K. certification body QinetiQ for its new-generation marine radar systems. The QinetiQ type approval certifies that the new Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT...