This article gives an insight into the topographical and hydrographic aspects of the construction of a stabilised tidal inlet in Cartagena, Colombia. The purpose of this tidal inlet was to...

The French Hydrographic Office (SHOM) uses remotely sensed visible imagery for the cartography of atolls and reefs. It is considered as an efficient and relatively inexpensive method to collect information...

Salinity is one of the most measured parameters in oceanography. The importance of high quality salinity data has long been recognised in open ocean studies and more recently in coastal...

The seabed of the Dutch sector of the North Sea is one of most densely sampled marine areas in the world. Sampling started in the mid-1960s with the exploration of...

Navigation on the river Rhine is of great economic importance for The Netherlands. It is important to establish whether river dunes significantly restrict water depth and whether climate change influences...

The Netherlands is bordered in the north and west by the North Sea. Twenty-six percent of the country’s landmass lies below sea level. Global warming will bring slow rises in...

Hydrography began as an activity to collect data for chart production and safe navigation. With the start of offshore oil & gas exploration/exploitation and other civil engineering projects, hydrographic data...

Continental Shelf survey and the submission of claims to the United Nations for sovereignty over the waters of marine states are a topic of hot discussion in the marine world....

From modest beginnings with just a handful of employees in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom twenty-eight years ago, the EGS Group has now grown into an international group of...

Measurement of water motion permits us to predict transport of sediment, estimate drift of contaminates, understand mixing and transport processes and to report wave conditions. While these are only a...