In the mid-nineteenth century the great hydrographic myth of a Telegraphic Plateau located in the North Atlantic Ocean was born. The origin of this myth began with the cruise of...

Commission 4 began its 2nd year of the 2011-2014 term as at January 2012. Many activities are planned for this year, including participation in FIG’s major conference of the year...

On 21 June each year the International Hydrographic Organization celebrates World Hydrography Day. The theme for 2012 is: ’International Hydrographic Co-operation – supporting safe navigation’. The IHO’s internationally recognised standards...

Ocean scientist, geographer, and geographic information system (GIS) author Dawn J. Wright will join Esri as its chief scientist on 3rd October 2011. She will help formulate and advance the...

The Australasian Hydrographic Society The main activity for the AHS over the past few months was the HYDRO11 Conference in Fremantle. This was a successful conference, enjoyed by all. A...

Patrice D. Coholan, president of Horizon Marine Inc., USA, has been named a Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year in Oceanography. While inclusion in the Cambridge Who's Who Registry...

Satellite images are planned to be used by the Laboratory of the Onshore Natural Risks Assessment, Russia. The information about natural disasters is to be prepared to be used by...

WaterML 2.0 is a candidate OGC encoding standard for the representation of in-situ hydrological observations data. WaterML 2.0 is implemented as an application schema of the Geography Markup Language (GML)...

As I reflect on my career of more than thirty years in the field of cartography, it is difficult to grasp the degree of change technology has brought to the...

Workshop and Annual General Meeting On 24 March, the HSB organised a workshop followed by the 2011 AGM. The event was held at the auditorium of Delft's University of Technology....