The tools used for investigating and solving crimes are critical to success in prosecuting offenders. When given the job of searching for important evidence, one of the most important tools...

Ocean Data Equipment Corporation (ODEC) of Providence, Rhode Island USA, has over 30 years experience in the design, manufacturing, and technical support of high quality, precision echo sounding and acoustic...

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...

South West Water Ltd, through its contractors M. J. Gleesons, and designers Jacobs Babtie, are extending existent, long, sea outfall at Woolacombe in Devon, UK. A ground investigation required for...

In the November/December 1998 issue of Hydro international I summarised considerations related to the design of a new hydrographic survey vessel. A new hydrographic survey launch (catamaran type) for the...

How to tackle problems traditionally associated with the management of multibeam data? A management tool has been developed which offers concrete operative solutions by eliminating lengthy manual editing stages and...

Although not fitting into the traditional biennial series of well-known HYDRO Conferences and Exhibitions, the year 2003 will nevertheless see a 'Hydro 2003' Hydrographic Conference and Exhibition. This time it...

It can be difficult to detect the true bottom depth beneath dense Submersed Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) using current hydrographic echo sounder systems. High acoustic reflectivity of the vegetation can result...

The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) has and will be utilising airborne LIDAR bathymetry in connection with the ongoing effort to modernise the maritime infrastructure along the Norwegian coast. This article...

In 1953 there appeared, amid a welter of underwater explosions, around the northern end of Das Island in the Persian Gulf a converted WWII surplus LCI(L) looking like some form...