Archive

Backscatter you already own: turning MBES returns into seabed maps

Jul 26 · 9 min read

USV/AUV Swarms: Why Positioning Architecture Is the Real Decision

Jul 23 · 10 min read

Spatialising SBAS: LEO Augmentation and the Integrity Case for DP

Jul 20 · 9 min read

Buy the AUV or the Capability? The HUGIN Superior Question

Jul 17 · 10 min read

Visual Navigation for AUVs: Buying Position Confidence Without Acoustics

Jul 14 · 10 min read

Contested Signals: GNSS Reliability in Arctic Offshore Work

Jul 11 · 10 min read

Assured PNT for offshore vessels: when LEO backup pays and when it doesn't

Jul 8 · 9 min read

The DP Incidents You Never Hear About: Why Concealment Still Pays

Jul 5 · 10 min read

DNV-RP-0585 Seismic Update: What It Demands of Site Survey Scope

Jul 5 · 9 min read

SAS or Multibeam for Wreck Surveys: When Resolution Earns Its Premium

Jul 2 · 9 min read

What DP Operations Should Take From ICAO's GNSS Jamming Stance

Jun 29 · 10 min read

GPS OCX in Doubt: Reading the Ground Segment Risk Offshore

Jun 26 · 9 min read

GNSS Jamming and Spoofing: Where Offshore Positioning Chains Break

Jun 23 · 10 min read

USV Launch and Recovery: Reading the Reliability Threshold

Jun 20 · 9 min read

IMCA S 026, Unpacked: What an Out-of-Straightness Survey Actually Requires

Jun 20 · 11 min read

When ArcGIS Isn't an Option: A Decision-Grade Map of Geoportal Alternatives to Esri

Jun 18 · 13 min read

Length Is Easy, the Gap Is Not: Surveying Free Spans on Subsea Pipelines

Jun 17 · 14 min read

Long-Endurance AUVs: Rethinking Survey Planning for Multi-Week Dives

Jun 17 · 10 min read

Not a Map Layer: Geomatics and the Common Operating Picture in Crisis Response

Jun 16 · 14 min read

Optical 3D Scanning in Subsea Weld Repair: A Visualisation Aid, Not an NDT Method

Jun 14 · 7 min read

The Hidden Geodetic Bill in a 'Harmonised' Seismic MegaSurvey

Jun 14 · 9 min read

Separately Contracted, Same Deck: Governing Combined Subsea Operations

Jun 14 · 15 min read

Conflict-Zone GNSS Interference: Offshore Positioning Resilience for 2026

Jun 12 · 10 min read

GNSS-INS for Subsea: When Tactical-Grade IMUs Earn Their Premium

Jun 12 · 10 min read

Managing the Integrated Subsea Contractor: An Operator's Framework

Jun 12 · 12 min read

Equinor's Sabertooth Trials: Are Operators Ready for Intervention Drones?

Jun 10 · 9 min read

Space-Based GNSS Jamming Exposes DP Integrity Monitoring Blind Spots

Jun 10 · 8 min read

Strait of Hormuz Guidance: What Survey Managers Need to Know Now

Jun 5 · 7 min read

Uncrewed Hydrographic Surveys: The Certification Gap Nobody Mentions

May 31 · 9 min read

Multi-Day Offshore USV Operations: Van Oord's Reality Check

May 27 · 9 min read

New IHO leadership and what S-100 means for offshore contractors

May 23 · 8 min read

GNSS Interference Is Now Persistent: What Offshore Survey Must Do Next

May 19 · 9 min read

Terrestrial Timing Networks: What NPL-Vodafone Means for Offshore PNT

May 5 · 8 min read

S-100 Goes Live on Sydney Harbour: What the First Bridge Trial Shows

Apr 30 · 7 min read

S-100 Phase 1 is live: what survey contractors must change now

Apr 26 · 8 min read

Big-Data GNSS Integrity: What RIGOUR Means for Offshore Positioning QA

Apr 21 · 8 min read

The Real Cost of Channel Partners: GeoAcoustics-Seafloor Deal

Apr 17 · 8 min read

Deep-Sea Mining EIAs: ADCP Deployment Reality vs Regulatory Demand

Apr 15 · 9 min read

S-100 and USV Autonomy: What the New IHO Data Model Changes for Survey

Apr 10 · 9 min read

Shore-Approach Burial Surveys: Depth-of-Burial in the Transition Zone

Apr 6 · 12 min read

What New Zealand's 3D Coastal Programme Reveals About Nearshore Surveys

Apr 5 · 9 min read

Brazil's First S-101 ENC: What Survey Contractors Should Plan For

Apr 1 · 9 min read

Why Arctic GNSS Positioning Fails Above 70°N – And What Actually Works

Mar 29 · 11 min read

Non-Ice-Class Vessels in Arctic Waters: When Escort Isn't Enough

Mar 24 · 14 min read

ASOG and DP Drift-Off: Why Crews Bypass the Guidelines

Mar 24 · 13 min read

Offshore Platform Subsidence vs Growth: The Compaction Problem

Mar 21 · 13 min read

When Your Platform Moves: Geodetic Monitoring of Offshore Structural Deformation

Mar 20 · 12 min read

GNSS Jamming Offshore: What It Means for PNT When GPS Fails

Mar 18 · 9 min read

£180M National Timing Centre: What Offshore Survey Can Expect (and Can't)

Mar 14 · 8 min read

Battery Packs in Pressure Housings: Field Lessons from Three Decades

Mar 14 · 9 min read

Dual-Role PSVs: When Your Supply Vessel Becomes a Subsea Worksite

Mar 9 · 12 min read

When Autonomous Systems Make Sense: The Economics of Remote Bathymetry

Mar 9 · 9 min read

What Kongsberg's EM Sensor Rebrand Reveals About Positioning Integration

Mar 5 · 8 min read

IOGP SSDM Version 3: What the Seabed Survey Data Model Update Changes

Mar 2 · 8 min read