The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and sponsors, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), in collaboration with the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure Participants, have announced a request for...

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards Spitsbergen, to use newly developed equipment in...

The program kicks-off with workshops and tutorials then moves on to the core technical program over several days. Join your peers for breakfast, lunch, or dinner at any number of...

It is hardly possible to discuss the configuration of the deep ocean bed without eventually using the term ‘seamount’. Today, the existence of tens of thousands if not over 100,000 seamounts...

In June 2014, the Bureau of Economic Geology, a research unit at the University of Texas at Austin, was contracted to conduct an airborne bathymetric Lidar survey on the Alaskan...

The first true three-dimensional picture of submarine canyon habitats has been produced using a combination of marine robotics and ship-based measurements. The information captured in this set of maps ranges...

During the opening keynote speeches of US Hydro in National Harbor, USA, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called upon the audience of American hydrographers to combine their voices with those of...

Robotics and autonomous systems are championed as one of the UK government’s ‘Eight Great Technologies’. The National Oceanography Centre is committed to maximising this technology to further ocean science and...

MMT (Sweden) has been awarded a contract for sidescan sonar survey and a camera-based study of benthic fauna by Nord Stream. The scope of Nord Stream's monitoring campaign is to...

The Kongsberg Maritime Camera Group's Systems & Projects team has delivered the first set of cabled IP digital still camera stations (CAMDS) to the University of Washington, USA. The delivery...