Thrane & Thrane has been awarded a DKK20 million (US$3.6 million) contract by Inmarsat to supply and install two Radio Network Controller stations in Hawaii (USA). This is one of...

This article explores work currently under way that is helping to meet the complex challenges of ship hull inspections. The following sections describe these challenges and present the solutions that...

We have experienced much more technical variation in hydrographic affairs during the past ten years than during the whole of the past century. For example, single beam and multibeam systems,...

Co-operation between the Australian Hydrographic Service (AHS) and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has resulted in a new, shorter and safer shipping route in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR),...

Two UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) chiefs have been finding out more about the vital survey work being carried out in the inhospitable Antarctic. UKHO Chief Executive, Mike Robinson, and UK...

An article from the June 2006 issue of Hydrointernationaldescribed our plans for utilising a hovercraft to deploy autonomous drifting echosounding Seafloor Sounding in Polar and Remote Regions (SSPARR) buoys in...

Hatteland Display has appointed Thor Ostrem as Quality Manager at its production facility in Nedre Vats (Norway). At the same time, Bente Blikra joins the Quality Control Department as Quality...

This issue’s theme is ‘Platforms in Hydrography’ leaving it unspecified as to whether it comprises ships, boats, AUVs, aircraft or even space vehicles. The gamut is so wide that only...

Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, has recorded a podcast to inform Sailors about the Navy's use of active sonar in its training exercises, and ongoing litigation....

A 15-year agreement between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and QinetiQ secures access for the MOD, other government and commercial customers to QinetiQ's diverse range of maritime facilities and subject...