Seafloor mapping during a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition has unveiled an underwater mountain twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in international waters off Guatemala. The...

Activities such as sand extraction, cable trenching and pipeline construction regularly churn up the top layer of the North Sea seabed. However, this top half metre is an important habitat for all...

All over the world, surveyors are opting for UAV technologies to advance coastal mapping services. VBW Weight GmbH from Germany and RASA Surveying from the Philippines are professional service providers...

Echologger leads in underwater sonar tech, specializing in ultra-compact echosounders and imaging sonar devices. Its solutions cater to professionals and organizations that include bathymetry providers, oceanography researchers, marine biologists, environmental...

In this article, we examine the evolving landscape of bathymetry with insights from Anders Ekelund, vice president of airborne bathymetric Lidar at Hexagon Geosystems. Beyond mapping seagrass, Ekelund unveils Lidar’s...

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project and Saildrone, a leading provider of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on advancing ocean mapping technology...

As part of a Catalan government project to improve the management of its marine environment, ICGC cooperated with Field to use airborne Lidar bathymetry (ALB) to survey the Catalan coastal...

In a bid to uncover the secrets of the deep seafloor, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has joined forces with 3D at Depth, a leading expert in commercial...

Saildrone, a company renowned for providing near real-time maritime intelligence using small unmanned systems, has introduced a new line of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in the mid-size category. The Voyager,...

“Think big for coastal mapping” is the foremost advice that Don Ventura of Teledyne Geospatial would impress upon agencies interested in bathymetric Lidar. “It’s a matter of efficiency of scale.”...