Petrobrás SA has won a 2007 BE Award in the "Geospatial Mapping and Cadastre" category for its Obstacles Management System. This USD20 million project enables Petrobrás to systematically map more...

Improvements in sensor sensitivity, reliability and detection capabilities, and improved modelling techniques have all contributed to increased capability enhancements and new applications for magnetometry. This includes environmental monitoring in littoral...

Every year members of FIG, the Fédération Internationale des Géométres (International Federation of Surveyors), gather together for their annual meeting; this year the FIG Working Week was held on the...

The theme of the 2008 FIG Working Week is "Integrating Generations", which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. These include questions related to the need...

Jean Riemersma, the muchrespected Chief Surveyor of Shell International (1977–1987), died unexpectedly at his home in The Netherlands on 21st November aged 77. The international offshore oil and gas survey...

News In the summer of 2003 an international memorial expedition ‘Convoy-2003’ took place dedicated to the memory of vessels sunk in the Barents Sea in July 1942 during the mission...

Washington, DC, USA, hosted the XXII FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) Congress during the week of 21 Ð 26 April 2002 as well as meetings of the American Congress on...

On the list of important conferences in hydrographic surveying are the HYDRO conferences, this year’s contribution to the series to be held in Antwerp. Chair of the organising committee is...

AHS Education Award 2006 The AHS president and Education Award Board are delighted to advise that there were sixteen applicants for the 2006 award. These included research proposals from New...

The Port Authorities in China want to adopt as standard in ports and harbours the navigable water depth; many ports in China have a problem with silt, liquid mud, deposited...