A B$9.5 million project for the delivery of Brunei's national Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was officially contracted end of April 2007 during a signing ceremony between the Ministry of Development...

IHO Publication 57 (IHO S-57) is the official IHO Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, formally adopted in 1992. S-57 was intended to support all types of hydrographic data, the...

To support the production and maintenance of navigational charts, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) receives large quantities of bathymetric data from a great number of sources. This data is...

A growing problem exists with forward-deployed electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS) in obtaining and updating geospatial data(electronic nautical charts). This problem is commonly referred to as distributing geospatial...

Global warming, climate change, rising sea levels and increased commercial exploitation of the seabed and sea space are important global indicators of a changing world environment. A crucial role is...

The Military Survey Department of the Armed Forces is the sole federal mapping agency and entity in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is responsible for co-ordinating, processing and disseminating...

Until recently, each survey organisation or hydrographic service had its own system for numbering surveys and the fair sheets, bottom samples and other records that comprised a survey project. An...

Hosting a party on a ship’s maiden visit to Malta in 2002, I mentioned in my welcome the initiative of the Maltese ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Arvid Pardo....

The fascinating world of hydrography confronts the current hydrographer with an interesting challenge: to serve a wide variety of customers as quickly as possible with a wide variety of products,...

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is the New Zealand Government's steward of authoritative hydrographic information for nautical charts and publications and provides the hydrographic infrastructure to support these services and...