Remote Sensing - 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...

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...

The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) has and will be utilising airborne LIDAR bathymetry in connection with the ongoing effort to modernise the maritime infrastructure along the Norwegian coast. This article...

In April 2004 an unusual vessel, the Afon Dyfwydwy made its first transit down the River Dee carrying the wings for the new Airbus A380. This was the culmination of...

Foreword by Steve Ritchie Until 1959 the two triangulation networks on either side of the Persian Gulf had never been connected, so that ships’ navigators, when changing their fixes from...

On 8th October 1993, with the introduction of the Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) flown in a Fokker F-27 aircraft, the Australian Hydrographic Service could claim to be among the...

Optech Incorporated develops, manufactures and supports advanced, Lidar-based survey solutions. Established in 1974 as a privately held, Canadian-owned research and development firm, Optech was originally an offshoot of research conducted...

A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Vice-Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr. has masters and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University. Before joining NOAA he was president and...

History is replete with attempts to find applications for High Frequency (HF) radar - military as well as environmental. Starting from the billion dollar Air Force behemoths with 10km antennas...

According to a UN group of experts in 1978, "there can be no exploitation of marine resources without exploration and there can be no exploration without hydrography". For hydrographic surveyors...