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...

The Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB) in The Netherlands has joined the CARIS Academic Partnering Programme with CARIS HIPS and SIPS and BASE Editor for hydrographic data processing. The programme...

HSR is happy to continue its cooperation and participation in activities of the historical-geographical club named Boris Vilkitsky at St. Petersburg school No. 43.  The last activity took place on...

There is a key new feature in the discharge measurement software ViSea DAS that allows the user to add a bottom profile. By doing so, side extrapolation from the start...

SHOM, which manages the network of reference tidal observations (REFMAR), is organising its first conference on this subject. Entitled 'REFMAR days', the event will be held from 17 to 21...

SeaZone and Snowflake Software, both based in the UK, have jointly launched ‘HydroView Now: Features’, a ready-to-consume Web Feature Service (WFS) for the marine community. Comprising key marine and nautical...

Snowflake Software, UK, has been awarded a contract by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to provide an open standard Geography Markup Language (GML) encoding and profile for a basic...

The adoption of open standards for Maritime data exchange is just the start of a long journey. With increased vendor support, a potential reduction in costs, as well as enabling...

Esri chief scientist Dawn J. Wright, PhD, has received the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Presidential Achievement Award. Presented at the AAG annual meeting on 28th February 2012, the award...