Global Navigation and Hydrography is the theme of this issue. GALILEO has received a ‘green light’, GPS has planned some important improvements and GLONASS has entered on a significant development...

Kongsberg Maritime Simulation concluded a US$1 million refit of the largest simulated navigation bridge in the world at the end of 2006. The simulator is located at the Center For...

IXSEA won the 'Amber Medallion' in the Rear Admiral Xawery Czernicki Grand Prix at Balt-Military-Expo 2006 in Gdansk, Poland in early June for MARINS inertial navigation system. Designed to meet...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Imagenex Technology Corp, headquartered in Port Coquitlam, just outside Vancouver, specialises in advanced acoustic underwater sensors in combination with graphic visualisation tools. The Canadian firm endeavours to apply a unique...

On 3 June 2000 the CGX Energy Inc. (a Canadian Company) Drilling rig, was reportedly ‘ordered’ from its drilling position in Guyana’s Mining location named ‘Eagle’ by Surinam naval gunboats....

Hydrographic Charts as used by seafarers are based on data accumulated over years of professional surveying operations. Standard hydrographic charts either in paper form or as ENC are available for...