After completing an MSc. and course work for a PhD in Physics, he worked for the Federal Government’s Environment department as a Marine Geophysicist until 1981. In 1980 he founded...

This 10th anniversary of Hydro International is an occasion to look at Reed Business, the publisher of this magazine. The history of the Reed Business Geo division goes further back,...

Canada is the second largest country in the world, with a shoreline measuring approximately 243,800km, more than six times the circumference of the Earth. The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), established...

The Canadian Hydrographic Association has elected Mr. George P. McFarlane as president 2007-2009. George is a commissioned Ontario Land Surveyor and Canada Lands Surveyor as well as an Ontario Land...

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...

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%,...

The Italian Hydrographic Institute (IIM), perched high above the city of Genoa in Forte San Giorgio, has been the official nautical charting agency of the Italian Navy since being founded...

As more people adopt RTK GPS technology for measuring water levels, the issue of ellipsoid-geoid separation is increasingly being discussed. This article outlines various projects undertaken to calibrate this separation,...

Founded in 1878 in Paris, the Federation International des Geometres (FIG) is an international umbrella organisation for national surveying associations which covers all disciplines of the surveying profession. Commission 4...

The theme of the 2008 FIG Working Week is "Integrating Generations", which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. These include questions related to the need...