In 2007, as an undergraduate co-op student working at the Geological Survey of Canada’s Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, B.C., I helped map seabed habitats and hazards off the West Coast.

Sub-bottom profilers extend hydrographic surveys beneath the seafloor. These systems emit low-frequency signals capable of penetrating sediment layers, revealing subsurface structures such as buried ...

Now, the “Dorothy” vessel is equipped with a multibeam echosounder. John Gray, the acting lead hydrographer onboard the vessel, explained that the multibeam echosounder allows them to gather ...

Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a $3.2m contract to provide an EM 122 1ºx 1º multibeam hydrographic echo sounder and one 3º SBP 120 sub bottom profiler to the University of Stockholm and the ...

Kongsberg Maritime will introduce the new EM 2040 Compact, a sophisticated multibeam echo sounder for high resolution mapping and inspection applications, during Ocean Business 2013. Based on the EM ...

Ocean Mapping Instructor, School of Ocean Technology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Marine scientists often feel like they’re fumbling in the dark. The global ocean covers about 71 per cent of ...