The International Hydrographic Review (IHR)

IHR November 2009

GPS – based Vertical Control, Unaided by a Shore Station
By John Shannon Byrne, Gail Smith, Walter Simmons, and Bill
Estimation of Sounding Uncertainty from Measurements of Watermass Variability
By Jonathan Beaudoin, B.Calder, J.Hiebert and G.Imahori, Canada
Chart Datum Transfer using a GPS Tide Gauge Buoy in Chesapeake Bay
By David Dodd, Bill Mehaffey, Gail Smith, Ken Barbor, Stephan O’Brien and Maxim van Norden, USA
Environmental Risks Monitoring of Shipwrecks in Italian Seas
By Lt. Giuseppe Masetti and Fulvia Orsini, Italy
Multibeam Processing for Nautical Charts
By Aluizio Macel de Oliveira and Izabel King Jeck, Brazil
Optimising Sound Speed Profiling in Hydrographic Surveys
By Derrick Peyton, Jonathon Beaudoin and Michael Lamplugh, Canada
Book review:
“ Radionavigation Systems”
By Börje Forssell, Artech House, 685 Canton Street, Norwood, MA 02062, U.S. 2008. ISBN: 1-59693-354-2. 392 p., US$79.
“The Electronic Chart Display and Information System – An Operational Handbook”
By Adam Weitrit. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2009. ISBN 978-0-415-48246-2, 1101 p.