Aaron Lim is a lecturer in Coastal Geomorphology and director of the MSc in Coastal and Marine Management at University College Cork. Aaron’s research interests include applied seafloor mapping, seabed...

The Marine Geoscience Research Group at University College Cork, under the aegis of the Irish Marine Institute, has published the first high-resolution geomorphological map of most of the Irish continental...

An international expedition to the Salas y Gómez Ridge has uncovered 160 species, potentially including 50 new to science. Led by Dr Erin E. Easton and Dr Javier Sellanes, the...

Ocean surveying and inspection specialist Argeo Subsea, CSI Nordics and Kongsberg Discovery have formalized a three-party Certificate of Delivery and Acceptance for an advanced HUGIN Superior AUV. This milestone agreement,...

By harnessing capabilities of advanced satellite technology and ever-evolving data analysis, satellite-based mapping (including satellite-derived bathymetry, SDB) offers an efficient, extensible and cost-effective method for mapping water properties, underwater topography...

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), working with the University of Southampton and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), recently completed a Fully Autonomous Marine Protected Area Seafloor...

In a second seafloor survey off the Southern California coast, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography uncovered a staggering 350 square kilometres of discarded military munitions. The April...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has commissioned Woolpert to acquire bathymetric survey data using Lidar technologies to support the Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative (FSMI) and its mission to produce...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries beneath our planet’s water bodies, topobathymetric technologies emerge as a beacon of innovation. Among them, Lidar (light detection and ranging) and sonar sensors...

Kongsberg Discovery has unveiled a new analysis tool, developed in collaboration with underwater imaging specialist Cathx Ocean. This innovative tool significantly streamlines the process of detecting and classifying objects of...