Given her maritime orientation, the Netherlands has historically played a significant role in the development of hydrography and nautical cartography. From the sixteenth century onwards this nation demonstrated her global...

Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) recognises the need to improve its processes for data management and product creation to meet the high standards expected by the hydrographic community. From a task...

Producing official Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) is a responsibility of every coastal state. Making ENCs work together flawlessly and seamlessly on an ECDIS display requires close co-operation between Hydrographic Offices....

East Australian Region The Australasian Hydrographic Society, East Australian Region held its last meeting on 14th November 2006 at HSA Systems Pty Ltd offices in North Sydney. Forthcoming conferences in...

CARIS has released Bathy DataBASE 2.0 for the creation and management of bathymetric surfaces. Among some of the features of Version 2.0 are new source data management and storage tools,...

Navionics has added a new coverage size for its Gold+ Charts, XL9 for the Americas, Europe and Rest of the World. Providing over three times the coverage previously available in...

Navigational safety and political-economic considerations make it essential for port administrations and hydrographic services to have a prioritised survey programme. Finding criteria that reflect the importance of re-survey over a...

This paper describes the development of a web spatial image server used for sharing huge sets of georeferenced coastal orthophotos on the web via an easy visualisation interface. Traditional cartography...

Imagine piloting a 398m container ship into port TODAY using an ENC updated with survey data collected YESTERDAY. Isn’t this order of turnaround time the ultimate dream of any ENC...

Specially adapted Kongsberg Norcontrol IT C-Scope software formed the platform for an in- depth MarNIS (Maritime Navigation and Information Services) demonstration, held at the MCA's Highcliffe Training Centre on 13...