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Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting

COMPLETION OF THE CHARTING COVERAGE OF THE INTERIOR WATER’S COMMERCIAL NAVIGATION ROUTE

By SHOA

Background The Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA) is the official technical and permanent agency of the…

Bathymetry and Positioning

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY IN THE COASTAL AREA OF BANGLADESH – A CHALLENGING EXPERIENCE FOR THE SURVEYOR.

By Commander Sheikh Firoz Ahmed

1. Introduction The Bangladesh coast is located on the most active part of the Ganges Delta. The area…

Research and Technology

A NEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICE (AHS) – AN UPDATE ON PROGRESS.

By Ian W. Halls, Matt Jones

1. Background The background to this sustainment initiative is described in Halls (2015). Several of the sustainment activities…

People and Institutions

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ELECTRONIC NAVIGATIONAL CHARTS (IC-ENC): GLOBAL COLLABORATION, REGIONAL FOCUS

By James Harper, Mathias Jonas

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally written for, and published in, Hydro International (www.hydro-international.com), March 2016. Updated October…

Editorial IHR 16

By Ian W. Halls

This edition comprises two articles and several notes of information. The first article from Bangladesh describes the operations…

Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting

THE GRAHAM BANK: HYDROGRAPHIC FEATURES AND SAFETY OF NAVIGATION

By Lamberto Orlando Lamberti, Luigi Sinapi, Nicola Marco Pizzeghello, Roberta Ivaldi

1. Introduction The Graham Bank is an underwater group of volcanoes in the Strait of Sicily and one…

Editorial IHR 15

By Ian W. Halls

This edition comprises three articles and one note. The first article from Italy provides a practical case study…

Bathymetry and Positioning

ERROR BUDGET ANALYSIS FOR SURFACE AND UNDERWATER SURVEY SYSTEM

By G. NAANKEU WATI, J.B. GELDOF, N. SEUBE

Introduction During offshore site investigations such as seabed mapping and subsea infrastructures inspection campaigns, hydrographic survey contractors mainly…

People and Institutions

DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE, SUSTAINABLE AND EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION: A CASE STUDY

By D. WARDLE, R. Furness

EDITOR’S NOTE: This paper has been reprinted by the kind permission of the Australasian Hydrographic Society. In particular,…

People and Institutions

THE CHILEAN NAVY HYDROGRAPHIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SERVICE (SHOA) COMMISSIONS A NEW SHALLOW WATER HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY LAUNCH

By SHOA

Conducting hydrographic surveys is one of the main tasks that SHOA executes to obtain the necessary data required…

Bathymetry and Positioning

COMPARISON OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL RESOLVABLE RESOLUTION BETWEEN REPETITIVE MULTI-BEAM SURVEYS USING DIFFERENT KINEMATIC GNSS METHODS

By Christopher McHugh, David Maggio, Ian Church, Min Sung Kim

1. Introduction Since the development of satellite based positioning, scientists have been striving to increase their derived positional…

Editorial IHR 14

By Ian W. Halls

This edition comprises four articles and one note. Two articles relate to positioning systems – one being the…