1 July 2018 will be a historic date for chart navigation at sea, states Mathias Jonas in a recent article. On exactly this day ECDIS carriage requirement will be mandated for...

The University of Adelaide has partnered with French education institution ENSTA Bretagne to offer dual master's degrees in marine engineering. Announced during the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron’s...

The front cover of this issue of Hydro International shows the transition from Landsat satellite imagery, to a satellite-derived bathymetry surface, to a bENC (Bathymetric Electronic Navigation Chart). The location...

Norway is a maritime country with a very long coastline. It is also very much a polar nation, with 80% of its sea territory and 45% of its land mass...

A hydrographic education programme has been offered in Hamburg for more than 30 years. The programme was first offered in 1985 as an addition to an existing programme in general...

The National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering (NRIFE, Kamisu) of the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA, Yokohama) has been deploying an ASL Environmental Sciences multifrequency Acoustic Zooplankton Fish...

It is now well over ten years since Fugro Academy opened its doors within Fugro as a focal point for learning and development for the company’s 10,000-plus employees, who specialise...

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) is holding an international symposium from 12 to 14 February to take stock of lessons learned concerning tsunami preparedness over the past 13 years, and...

How is the hydrographic profession doing as a business? In the run-up to the start of 2018, 'Hydro International' decided to turn its sounder on and listen to the voices of...

We are seeing the introduction and application of automated technologies everywhere that supplant the common and accepted ways of doing jobs, writes Paul Cooper. Indeed, the pages of Hydro International are...