Hydrography News & Articles

Inertial Labs has been working with OST to showcase its high-performance, low-swap inertial sensing-based technologies, designed for maritime vessels and platforms

Airmar has been working with OST to showcase not only its innovative ultrasonic weather stations, but also its acoustic sensing solutions for a range of marine and offshore industries

Wavefront has been working with OST to showcase how it solves the problems of underwater detection, imaging and navigation using advanced sonar technologies

OST has been showcasing FarSounder’s forward looking sonars, advanced systems that can generate real-time 3D hazard detection images of the environment ahead of vessels

Voyis’ Insight Pro laser scanner and Observer Pro imaging system have enabled a 3D digital scan and reconstruction of the Antarctic wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance

Greensea IQ and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered to develop future vehicles and technologies supporting scientific research across ocean environments

OST has been aiding SatLab Geosolutions in showcasing its advanced and innovative products, based on cutting-edge GNSS, sonar and USV technologies with a focus on R&D

Exail has signed an MoU with the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project to enhance global ocean mapping efforts, and will contribute valuable bathymetric data using its innovative technologies

The new containerised solution enables hydrographic surveys with multiple acoustic survey sensors and instruments to be performed from many different host platforms with very short deployment time

Saildrone is set to map the Cayman Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), covering 29,300 square nautical miles with its autonomous Surveyor USV to interpret the region’s seafloor topography

The integration of YellowScan’s Navigator bathymetric system into Xer Technologies’ drones offers a solution for long-range bathymetric surveys and underwater topography mapping

Under the CARMA project, Exail, RTsys, and ABYSSA are set to develop an AUV swarming solution for efficient ocean floor mapping and subsea surveying

Exail has conducted the first sea trials for its new transoceanic USV, the DriX O-16, designed for long-duration operations and able to deploy multiple payloads and subsea assets

Two Saildrone uncrewed surface vessels will be gathering accurate ocean depths and seafloor topography in the Gulf of Maine to aid navigation, telecommunications, and more

SatLab has introduced the HydroBoat 1500 USV, a surveying vessel offering impressive autonomous operation capabilities and reliability for maximized surveying potential

USS, GeoAcoustics, and ACUA have secured DEFRA backing to improve marine biodiversity monitoring using a carbon neutral USV and the GeoSwath 4 bathymetric sonar

Using the Hydrus AUV to capture geo-referenced imagery from Rottnest ship graveyard, Advanced Navigation worked with Curtin University HIVE and the WA Museum to curate and display a high-resolution replica of a 100-year-old shipwreck

Exail has unveiled a new transoceanic uncrewed surface vessel with multi-robot deployment capabilities, suited to conducting unmanned subsea inspection, hydrographic, geophysical, and UXO surveys

The first aluminum Surveyor USV from Saildrone has been completed, powered by wind, solar, and a diesel generator for long-range, long-endurance missions in the open ocean