The Australasian Hydrographic Society offers an Annual Education Award of AUD $ 2,500. The award is open to students studying or researching in any maritime discipline including, but not limited...

New members The IHO is pleased to welcome Qatar as 79th Member State of the IHO. XVIIth International Hydrographic Conference Clearly the most important event in the life of the...

Since the 1970s, the International Bathymetric Charts (IBCs) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission have offered a framework for compiling soundings with a view to producing detailed maps of sea floor...

Transas is a developer and supplier of a wide range of software, integrated solutions and hardware technologies for the aviation and marine transportation industry, including both onboard and shore-based applications.<P>...

New Zealand is a small country located in a vast ocean. Its hydrographic responsibilities cover 18 million square kilometres reaching from the shores of Antarctica to the Tokelaus and from...

The Bulgarian Hydrographic Service is a subdivision of the Bulgarian Navy and its main task is to provide information for safe navigation in Bulgarian territorial waters. The Hydrographic Service was...

Almost a year ago (June 2005), Google Earth was launched and drew a lot of attention (‘fantastic’, ‘exciting’) both from the GI-specialists as from the general public. Google Earth was...

News Russian Northern Sea Ports The Hydrographic Society of Russia together with the Russian Geographical Society and the St. Petersburg Society of Geodesy and Cartography held a ‘round table’ on...

Naval hydrographic schools are fine examples of educational institutions holding old traditions of academic excellence and being in the vanguard of new technological developments. They have to supply officers for...

Claudios Ptolemaios (to use the Greek version of his name), the greatest geographer of ancient times and the father of our geography, was a scholar who lived in Alexandria, Egypt....