Chartered Hydrographic Surveyor, Richard Cattermole, has recently gained Fellowship status with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). This new designation adds to his existing Chartered Marine Scientist and Fellowship...

New Zealand is a small country located in a vast ocean. Its hydrographic responsibilities cover 18 million square kilometres reaching from the shores of Antarctica to the Tokelaus and from...

Claudios Ptolemaios (to use the Greek version of his name), the greatest geographer of ancient times and the father of our geography, was a scholar who lived in Alexandria, Egypt....

There were three major overlapping phases in Mike Eaton’s career: Arctic developments in the Canadian Hydrographic Service, positioning systems development while at the Bedford Institute and electronic chart development after...

News In St. Petersburg at the mouth of the Neva River there lies at moorage the world-famous icebreaker, Krasin. The icebreaker was built in Great Britain in 1917 and named...

XII RGS Congress The XII congress of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) took place from 15th to 19th August, in Kronstadt. Participants were delegates from all regions of the Russian...

A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Vice-Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr. has masters and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University. Before joining NOAA he was president and...

T-Kartor was founded in 1985 in the southern Swedish town of Kristianstad. The company was started by a group of highly qualified people with wide experience and engagement in geography...

Google Earth has become a popular 3D web-mapping viewer, mainly due to the richness of satellite imagery in its primary database. However, the database contains very limited marine data. While...

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...