Although navigational charts play an essential role in guaranteeing safe passage through our oceans, the information they contain also has many other uses beyond safe journeying from point A to...

The practice of identifying and monitoring an area's physical features by measuring its reflected and emitted radiation from a distance is known as remote sensing (typically from satellite or aircraft). Researchers can "sense" facts about the Earth by using special cameras to acquire remotely sensed photos. Remote sensing is a fascinating field that revolves around the acquisition of Earth-related information without direct physical contact. It typically yields either point cloud data or imagery, both of which...

Jamie McMichael-Phillips is director of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. A hydrographic surveyor and former Royal Navy captain, Jamie has worked in a range of leadership roles, from running...

RIEGL tested the performance of its topobathymetric airborne laser scanning system in a transition zone context along the French Mediterranean coast. Initially planned as a UAV survey, tests were conducted...

This article presents a participative geomatics project with the goal of increasing southern Québec’s coastal communities’ ability to map and monitor changes in their coastal environment. Capacity-building and empowerment using...

Modern official electronic nautical charts of the entire coast and main ports of Albania have been produced and made accessible to professional shipping. The United Nations convention on Safety of...

The Australasian Hydrographic Society is proud to provide an Annual Education Award of AU$3,500 in 2021. The closing date for applications is 31 March 2021. The Australasian Hydrographic Society is the...

The 32km-long Afsluitdijk, completed in the Netherlands in 1932, transformed the Zuiderzee – once a shallow bay of the North Sea – into the freshwater IJsselmeer, named after the River...

Ever since the launch of the VRSS-2 Antonio José de Sucre satellite in 2017, researchers have been looking into how best to use and apply the information that it provides...

Jesse Varner has been a GIS specialist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Boulder, Colorado for 12 years. He has a degree in Computer Science from the...