Hydro International spoke to five leading experts about the present and future of the hydrographic industry. In this interview, John Nyberg (NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey) looks forward to a...

Hydrographic offices (HOs) today exist in a world of accelerating technological change that is influencing human behaviour and creating new needs for and ways of exploiting data to understand our...

Marine technology company Sonardyne has announced that its Solstice multi-aperture sonar has been integrated into mine warfare command software used by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Through a collaboration with...

It is widely and wrongly assumed that the world’s coastal regions have been surveyed in detail by modern techniques and that the resulting nautical charts are an accurate reflection of...

Experts have reconstructed the depth of the Southern Ocean at key phases in the last 34 million years of the Antarctic’s climate history. The glacial history of the Antarctic is...

Details of a new depth map of the Arctic Ocean have been published in the Nature Journal Scientific Data. The new portrayal of the Arctic Ocean floor is in the...

TDI-Brooks International (under contract to TGS) has completed the offshore multibeam phase offshore the Niger Delta. This survey took place in water depths of 750 to 3,500 metres and is...

Recently, the European Marine Board published a report on the current status of the European fleet of research vessels. This Position Paper describes how the fleet will need to develop in the future to ensure that it will continue to provide the same high level of support to science and hydrography globally, as well as highlighting ways in which management could be made more efficient. This article is an extract of the report. Recently, the European Marine Board published a report on the current status of the European fleet of research vessels. This position paper describes how the fleet will need to develop...

Denmark has challenging seascapes to map and chart. It has a rich history of nautical charting that dates back to the seventeenth century, and many of its navigational products for...

Jamie McMichael-Phillips, the new director of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, has now taken up his position in leading one of the most challenging projects of the next decade,...