The Alexander Dalrymple Award is given by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in recognition of an outstanding contribution to world hydrography. First presented in 2006, it is named in...

Rear Adm. Shepard M. Smith, director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey and the U.S. national representative to the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), was elected as the chair of the...

Benjamin Busse is a UAV pilot and expert in cartography and geomatics at the Karlsruhe-based Ingenieur Team GEO engineering office.

Darren Wilkinson is employed by Land Surveys in Business Development for Geospatial Services and has been in the geospatial industry for 32 years. He holds qualifications in Cartography, Photogrammetry and...

On 20 October 2016 in Beirut, Lebanon, the Italian Ambassador,  HE Massimo  Marotti, presided over the donation ceremony of a boat for hydrographic surveys donated by the Italian Navy to...

The UN-GGIM will hold its 7th session from 31 July to 4 August 2017 at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA. The UN-GGIM will specifically consider marine geospatial information...

Dr Mathias Jonas is the secretary-general of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). Prior to this appointment he was vice president of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency and national hydrographer...

Eunice Nuerkie Tetteh is a fisheries officer at the Marine Fisheries Research Division of the Fisheries Commission of the Ministry of Fisheries in Ghana. She just completed a one year...

The International Board on Standards and Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers (IBSC) recognised and approved Coast Survey’s certification programme in cartography (CAT-B) at its 40th meeting in Wellington,...

During the first IHO Assembly taking place from 24 to 28 April 2017 in Monaco, the represented Member States will elect the new Secretary-General and Directors. The nominees present themselves...