World Hydrography Day is celebrated each year on June 21st, which is the anniversary of the founding of the International Hydrographic Office in 1921. The day recognises the achievements of the hydrographic community and raises awareness of the importance of hydrography.
This year, CARIS, the world’s leading marine GIS organization, marked World Hydrography Day with a presentation on the importance of people in hydrography. Hydrographers are key in ensuring safe navigation and enabling international maritime trade, and therefore their work impacts on everyone. Currently, the hydrographic user community in 85 countries utilizes CARIS software to meet their requirements. CARIS’ clients include the world’s major civilian and naval hydrographic offices.
About CARIS
Established in 1979, CARIS is a leading developer of geospatial software. The CARIS Ping-to-Chart™ product line delivers an integrated software solution for the entire workflow of hydrographic information from the echosounder “ping” through to the production and distribution of the “chart”. CARIS products are continually selected by hydrographic offices, military agencies, survey contractors, ports and harbours, municipalities, land administrators and academia among others. In addition to its Canadian headquarters, CARIS has offices in The Netherlands, United States, Australia and United Kingdom. There are also more than 20 resellers bringing sales and support of CARIS brand software to more than 85 countries
[mappress] Source: CARIS , June 23 , 2011;