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Satellite Positioning

Within the last twenty years Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers have revolutionised navigation. Integrated devices are capable of providing time, position, height, direction, heave and attitude to accuracies of a...

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The Future of ECDIS

After a gap of five years, the 2nd ECDIS Conference took place in Singapore in October 2003. At first glance everything was as before: the venue of the conference, its...

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Editorial

The rising economies of countries such as India and some in the Far East, and increasing world trade, will further boost port construction. Likewise, the entry of new eastern European...

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Tsunami Local Alarm System

Tsunamis are in no way a new phenomenon, but the December 2004 tsunami drew attention to warning systems and generated new ideas for those capable of providing timely warning, even...

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The Order of Canada

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...

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GEBCO: the Second Century

The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), the archetype of Ocean Mapping at a world-ocean scale, celebrated its centenary last year with the release of an updated and greatly...

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The Naval Oceanographic Office

The Naval Oceanographic Office is proud of the role that it plays within the international hydrographic community. It traces its roots to hydrographic origins: the Depot of Charts and Instruments...

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