With the end of the Cold War in 1989, the military significance of the Arctic Ocean, where submarines of the superpowers had played ‘cat and mouse’ for decades, dramatically decreased....

Surveying is benefiting from continually evolving new technologies. One is 3D laser scanning, which is often used for measurements in complex industrial installations such as pipeline-rack crossings or entire petrochemical...

A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Vice-Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr. has masters and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University. Before joining NOAA he was president and...

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...

Google Earth has become a popular 3D web-mapping viewer, mainly due to the richness of satellite imagery in its primary database. However, the database contains very limited marine data. While...

Haestad Methods, Inc. (CT, USA) is internationally recognised as a water resources software company by water and wastewater utilities, government agencies, engineering consulting firms and universities. Founded in 1979 by...

In this article, offshore survey products are meant in the broadest sense. Not just survey, navigation and positioning, but the purpose or project that the dependent results are used for....

During the 1990s De Beers Marine identified a major business opportunity in radically improving its geological modelling capability. It set up a project to deliver the necessary geophysical systems and...

3D Full Tensor Gradiometry (FTG) or high-precision moving platform gravity gradiometry measures the full gravity field in all directions. The technology was initially commercialised for the petroleum exploration industry to...

The acquisition of hydrographic data has successfully supported the production of paper and electronic navigational charts for many years. Hydrographic offices worldwide are rightly committed to providing products in which...