Remote Sensing Ð this month's theme - has different definitions. In this issue are articles that describe both active and passive systems in which the sensor and the object are...

Located in the Woodville Karst Plain stretching south from Tallahassee to the Gulf of Mexico, Florida’s Wakulla Springs is one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world....

In days long gone by, it used to be said that electronics and the marine environment did not mix. Well, it is still true that electricity and water don’t mix...

Surveying in the near-shore or surf zone is, without doubt, a technical and operational challenge. And this remains true despite the fact that GNSS-positioning and the drastic reduction in size...

In 2005 HMS Endurance was fitted with a Kongsberg Maritime EM710 multibeam echosounder, and the author finally had the excuse he needed to go and visit the ship whilst on...

‘It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though...

The recent arrival in Bridgetown of the massive Cunard flagship Queen Mary II has caused a minor parking problem. With a length of 345m and a draft of 9.7m she...

My first experience in the navy with data collecting for oceanography was taking part in a MILOC-survey (military oceanography), near the Azores in the 1960s. It took us 24 hours...

The 4th international conference on high-resolution surveys in shallow waters took place in Plymouth (UK) from 12 to 15 September. The conference focused on the ‘Common Data Set’ (comparison data...

News Australasian Hydrographic Society Lydia Taylor, AHS Education Award winner for Academic Year 2004, has reported on her participation in the scientific cruise led by Geoscience Australia in May 2004....