Roland Pail is a professor of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich. His research activities focus on global and regional modelling of the Earth’s gravity field,...

Global reference systems such as the International Terrestrial Reference Frame provide the foundation for determining positions on Earth and in space, as well as for reliably quantifying our planet’s changes...

NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT, USA) to provide geophysics, geodynamics, and space geodesy support. Among the requirements for these investigations are instrument development; software development and maintenance;...

Oceanology International was held in March at the ExCel centre in East London. Day 3 featured three parallel sessions of which Hydrography and Geophysics and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles caught our...

Mohammad Bagherbandi is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development at the University of Gävle and a senior researcher in the Division of Geodesy and Satellite Positioning...

An ESA-funded campaign called PolarGAP has used airborne sensors to take a multitude of measurements to fill in the gaps in satellite coverage over the North and South Poles. It...

The IHO has recently released a new edition of the Standards for Hydrographic Surveys (S-44). In addition to surveys to support the safety of navigation, these standards can be adapted...

Oceans cover 71% of the surface of our planet and yet 95% of the ocean floor remains unmapped in detail. This in itself may not seem to be very important...

New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has revealed that sharp variations in the surface of volcanoes can affect data collected by monitoring equipment. The surfaces of...