The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) can make important contributions towards decarbonising the shipping industry and supporting safe, secure and thriving oceans, not least through the critical role that their products and services play in the transition through route optimisation and improved geospatial data. The UKHO also have a wider role as the Primary Charting Authority […]
A collaborative study from partners across government, industry and academia reveals that groups responsible for gathering marine geospatial information must find new, more efficient ways of working together. The recently completed ‘Future of UK marine geospatial data’ study found that marine geospatial stakeholders from UK government, industry and academia must find new ways of working […]
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has signed an agreement with the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to map the bottom of the ocean. As part of its official partnership with Seabed 2030, the UKHO will provide bathymetric gridded map products to be used by the project within the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) gridded bathymetric data set. UKHO will also share and promote methods […]
The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is launching a new challenge in collaboration with Geovation – a start-up accelerator programme and initiative of Ordnance Survey (OS), the national mapping agency for Great Britain – to find a sustainable solution to diffuse coastal pollution. ‘Diffuse’ pollution is pollution from multiple and often unidentified sources which causes significant […]