SRD, (Sonar Research and Development), has completed a major survey campaign on behalf of the seabed to surface engineering and construction contractor, Acergy, to inspect pipeline landfalls at various points...

Safe Software will host its first FME Worldwide User Conference on September 21-22 in Vancouver (Canada). The conference will provide GIS professionals, database managers and FME users with an overview...

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is the New Zealand Government's steward of authoritative hydrographic information for nautical charts and publications and provides the hydrographic infrastructure to support these services and...

After a gap of five years, the 2nd ECDIS Conference took place in Singapore in October 2003. At first glance everything was as before: the venue of the conference, its...

The oceans are a central part of the global climate system. As Roger Revelle, one of the early directors of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, said, “The oceans exert a...

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...

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...

There is a global shortage of hydrographic surveyors. The industry is faced with an interesting challenge and looks to specialised education facilities and personnel suppliers to assist in solving this...

The Tunisian Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Center (TNHOC) has since 1999 maintained a tidal database through an in situ tide-gauge network along the Tunisian coast. The data collected so collected...

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...