Coastal areas are highly dynamic environments that are subject to diverse pressures, both anthropogenic (e.g. urban development, fishing, habitat modification) and natural (e.g. storms, erosion, floods). These pressures result in...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) contracted with Woolpert to collect aerial topographic and bathymetric Lidar data and high-resolution, four-band imagery at select sites along the southwest coast...

The evolution of Australia’s coastlines can now be seen in unprecedented scale and detail, using a new tool developed by Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia (DEA) programme. Using satellite imagery...

Modern official electronic nautical charts of the entire coast and main ports of Albania have been produced and made accessible to professional shipping. The United Nations convention on Safety of...

Understanding why marine animals are using some places and not others is crucial to minimizing our impact on them. Recently, the new Eco ADCP has been helping one marine biologist,...

Kongsberg Maritime has announced that it has augmented its range of cNODE MiniS SSBL (Super Short Base Line) and LBL (Long Base Line) transponders with new models incorporating an internal,...

All NOAA tide and tidal current predictions for locations around the nation are available in electronic form online. NOAA eliminated paper publications of the annual tide tables and tidal current...

The 32km-long Afsluitdijk, completed in the Netherlands in 1932, transformed the Zuiderzee – once a shallow bay of the North Sea – into the freshwater IJsselmeer, named after the River...

Hydrographic measurements are nowadays usually carried out using multibeam echosounders (MBES). The measurements obtained by each operational hydrographic vessel need to be regularly controlled on a well-known area to validate...

Hydrographic offices (HOs) today exist in a world of accelerating technological change that is influencing human behaviour and creating new needs for and ways of exploiting data to understand our...