In October 2015, Capt Brian D. Connon assumed the role of director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maritime Safety Office. The organisation is an important, although not always visible, link in...

Lieutenant Pope McArthur was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy in 1832 and followed a fairly conventional career path for the first few years of his career. He...

These are exciting times in the geomatics and hydrographic industry. Innovative solutions are being developed, integration is the main keyword and the big players are acquiring smaller companies that add...

Ordnance Survey’s ninth Geovation® Challenge launched on 1 December 2015, and sees Britain’s mapping agency offering development funding and places on its Geovation programme for ideas that can improve the...

Darwin, Australia, is world-renowned for its rich and diverse landscapes. However, as a scientific exploration party has just found out, there is an equally diverse and previously undiscovered region of...

Capt Brian D. Connon assumed the role of Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Maritime Safety Office. Prior to his arrival, he served as the Superintendent of the US Naval...

George Davidson, whose name is indelibly connected with the survey of the West Coast of the United States, spent most of the sixty-one years between 1850 and 1911 in service...

Spectrum (Norway) has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Fugro’s multi-client library for a price of USD115 million on a cash- and debt-free basis. The transaction is fully...

In Memory of the First Russian Seafarer On 19 September 2014, D.L. Schennikov, member of the Hydrographic Society, and representing the delegation of public organisations of Russia, took part in...

The OGP Geomatics Committee’s Seabed Survey Data Model (SSDM) Task Force has published SeabedML, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geography Markup Language (GML) Application Schema for SSDM version 1. The...