Global Navigation and Hydrography is the theme of this issue. GALILEO has received a ‘green light’, GPS has planned some important improvements and GLONASS has entered on a significant development...

To support the production and maintenance of navigational charts, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) receives large quantities of bathymetric data from a great number of sources. This data is...

In common with all sciences, hydrography too is undergoing rapid change with regard to data acquisition and processing, instrumentation, application and many other aspects. Differing ideas may be found within...

As of March 2003 the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) received its ISO 9001:2000 Management System Certificate from Det Norske Veritas Certification AS. This paper sheds some light on the reasons...

In 1943, given the need to further hydrography in Spain, the hydrographic service was detached from the Observatorio de la Armada, and the Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina was born...

The first Hydrographic Service of the Republic of Cuba was created 80 years ago. Every year the Cuban Hydrographic Service carries out the important function of guaranteeing the safety of...

After completing a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics in 1983, Dr Phil Chapple worked in a laboratory of the Australian Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) where lasers...

China has more than 900 lakes, some 5,800 rivers, of which five are very large, an 18,000km-long coastline and more than 6,000 islands in about 3.50 million square kilometres of...

In 2004 the Royal Netherlands Navy for the third time in 75 years named one of two newly constructed hydrographic survey ships <i>Snellius</i>. Willebrord Snel van Royen (lat. Snellius) was...

Since GPS found its way into positioning, differential processing has beentheway to high precision. Technological advances and large-scale international collaboration have now made it possible to get sub-decimetre accuracy (95%,...