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 …
The first training course jointly organized by CARIS and the Unique Maritime Group of the United Arab Emirates took place from May 8th to May12th.
The comprehensive five-day training course attracted marine and hydrographic professionals from ten countries to the Unique Maritime Group's headqu…
After taking part in a competitive tender process, CARIS is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the National Survey Storage System project from Rijkswaterstaat.
Rijkswaterstaat, the executive body of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment in the Netherlands, has several respon…
CARIS will hold a workshop on seafloor data titled "Effective Marine Data Management and Dissemination." At the INSPIRE Conference 2011
INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial information in Europe) is a directive established by the 27 member countries of the European Union to ensure that their sp…
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be on a marine research expedition?
Wonder no more! A blog promises to provide an interesting insight into an expedition that is using HIPS and SIPS to help research the corals that live in some of the most extreme conditions on the planet.
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The next release of HIPS and SIPS, CARIS' advanced hydrographic software solution, will require a new license string to operate.
HIPS and SIPS 7.1 is scheduled for release in early May, highlights include a new 64-bit version of the software in addition to the 32-bit one. This advancement will…
In 1986 the Royal Netherlands Navy became CARIS' (then known as Universal Systems Limited) first international customer when the Navy's Hydrographic Service purchased CARIS for their nautical paper chart production. Now, 25 years later, CARIS is the preferred solution for hydrographic offices…
The latest release of Spatial Fusion Enterprise is building on its support of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards by implementing the Web Coverage Service (WCS) standard for bathymetric data. This is a continuation of CARIS’ commitment to provide organizations with the latest tec…
CARIS, the world's leading marine GIS organization, has today released a 64-bit version of its comprehensive hydrographic processing software HIPS and SIPS.
HIPS and SIPS 7.1 with 64-bit support will provide users who have access to a 64-bit computer the ability to handle large multibeam sonar…
CARIS and RiChi are pleased to announce their partnership to help provide the best possible geospatial solutions for the Taiwanese market.
CARIS had partnered with the RITI Technology Group in the Taiwanese market for more than 15 years before the spin off by RITI of their Geospatial Products …
CARIS welcomed the Honourable Keith Ashfield, Canada's Minister of National Revenue, Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, to their headquarters last week.
Minister Ashfield's visit to CARIS had been initially arranged following a bu…
CARIS' LOTS software was featured in the International Boundaries Research Unit's (IBRU) newsletter, Borderlines.
LOTS is a mapping software package developed to address coastal states' territorial claims. The CARIS software was used by IBRU researchers to map the contested maritime space arou…
This month CARIS released GIS Professional 4.5. The software is designed to provide a comprehensive spatial information management tool that addresses the GIS needs of a marine operational environment. The new version is now compatible with Windows 7.
If you’re interested in learning mor…
CARIS, with its latest Bathy DataBASE 3.1 software release, continues to solve the demands for robust and scaleable data management for the storage and analysis of ever-expanding volumes of sonar and LiDAR data.
Bathy DataBASE now works with Oracle® Spatial 11g utilizing the GeoRaster and …
With a brand new year, CARIS is introducing a revolutionary solution to the problems of converting Digital Nautical Charts (DNC's) to Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC's) and vice versa.
CARIS, with S-57 Composer 2.2, now offers a DNC Plug-in available through an optional license. The DNC Plug-i…
In recent years the EGS Group (EGS) has gone from strength-to-strength, and the adoption of CARIS HIPS and SIPS has played an integral role in this expansion.
As recently as 2007 EGS had only one HIPS and SIPS license. But as EGS has expanded its operations to include new regional offices and …
The Ocean Business exhibition at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England has quickly established itself as one of the premier events for showcasing the latest in ocean technology. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that CARIS is playing an active role at the exhibition …
CARIS is currently exhibiting at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco (ends December 17). The focus for CARIS is the promotion of the highly successful Academic Partnering Program, which currently provides over 60 universities and other academic institutions with the most c…
CARIS is organizing HIPS and SIPS training in Fredericton, Canada on January 10-14. The main focus of the training will be on data processing, visualization, quality control and product creation techniques. The latest technology in the software will be covered to enable participants to improv…
CARIS' Andy Hoggarth and Alejandro Gerones with Rodolfo Sabonge, VP of the Panama Canal Authority and Keith Ashfield, Canada's ACOA Minister at EXPONAVAL 2010
CARIS was recently invited to take part in a business mission organized by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to EXPONAVAL 2010 i…
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The Panama Canal Authority has successfully completed the first round of tests in the installation of its new Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) system utilizing CARIS software at the Simulation Center, Research and Development Maritime in Panama. This new system will make navigation in the …
CARIS is pleased to announce the release of Spatial Fusion Enterprise (SFE) version 5.3 featuring the new Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). SFE allows an organization to deliver its geospatial information to the Web using open standards and the latest technology.
WMTS is an Open Geospatial Consorti…
CARIS is pleased to announce the release of Bathy DataBASE 3.0.
A robust and efficient data management system is considered essential by those progressive organizations who have a desire to manage, visualize and analyze their ever-expanding volumes of bathymetry data. This need is now becoming…
CARIS hosted its 13th International User Group Conference, CARIS 2010, at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami, Florida, USA on March 22 - 25, 2010.
Stronger Together - People, Products, Infrastructure was this year's conference theme that brought together delegates from a record number of Nations.…
CARIS, a leading developer of marine GIS and hydrographic software, announced today the release of Spatial Fusion Enterprise (SFE) 5.2 as part of its well known Ping-to-Chart™ product suite.
SFE is Web-enabling technology for geospatial information that aims at leveraging the investment …
CARIS, leading developer of marine GIS and hydrographic software, announced today the renewal of its Academic Partnership with the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) for the tenth consecutive year.
Through the Program, USM has access to multiple CARIS software products, quality technical…
Fifteen representatives of academia, hydrographic offices and private survey companies from across Northern Europe joined CARIS and the University of Stockholm at the University on 12-16 October 2009 to learn about the CARIS Ping-to-Chart workflow.
Through the five-day workshop, participants g…
CARIS is accepting submissions for papers for its annual International User Group Conference, "CARIS 2010: Stronger Together - People, Products, Infrastructure". The five-day event will be held from March 22-25, 2010 in Miami, Florida, United States.
The CARIS 2010 program will focus on core i…
CARIS announced today the highly anticipated release of its comprehensive hydrographic processing system, CARIS HIPS and SIPS v.7.0. in tandem with an extra special discount offer on new licenses.
Long recognized as a flagship CARIS solution, HIPS and SIPS v7.0 will not disappoint. Version 7.…
CARIS is pleased to announce Ping-to-Chart Workshops to be hosted at Stockholm University in Sweden on October 12-16, 2009 as well as at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom on January 18-22, 2010.
The workshops will explain the workflow stages involved in taking acquired hydrog…
CARIS, leading developer of marine and hydrographic software, announced today that Mr. Horst Hecht has joined the team as Senior Scientific Advisor.
Mr. Hecht recently retired as Head of the Department of Nautical Hydrography and Vice-President of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency o…
The Flemish Hydrography have extended an invitation to the worldwide community of CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) software users to a User Group Meeting being hosted in the beautiful city of Oostende, Belgium on May 26-27, 2009.
HPD User Group Meetings deliver a unique opportunity…
CARIS is pleased to announce the release of Bathy DataBASE 2.2, implementing the very latest technology available to address the obstacles of storing and managing large volumes of multi-dimensional data.
With the ever-expanding volume of multibeam survey data and the large number of archived h…
Project team members EDS (an HP company), CARIS and LSC Group are proud to announce the final acceptance by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) of the Hydrographic Database (HDB) Project.
Through the HDB Project, EDS and CARIS have delivered workflow management technologies from EDS…
Kongsberg Maritime and CARIS today announced the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in delivering Ping-to-Chart solutions.
Kongsberg Maritime is a leading supplier of acoustic instrumentation for precision seabed mapping and inspection. Correspondingly, CARIS develop…
The Italian Hydrographic Institute has selected CARIS HIPS and SIPS software for its hydrographic survey processing.
The Italian Hydrographic Institute (IIM) located in Genova, has been the official nautical charting agency of the Italian Navy since being founded in 1872. Its tasks include the…
The Port of Tyne in Newcastle, United Kingdom is the latest port to adopt CARIS software for bathymetric survey management and analyses.
The Port of Tyne is a key player in the Tyne and Wear region encompassing over 20 miles of river frontage supporting closely grouped industries dependent upo…
Geoscience Australia in Canberra has selected CARIS Bathy DataBASE software for management of large bathymetric data sets, interoperability and distribution.
Geoscience Australia is Australia's national agency for geoscience knowledge and geospatial information. Its knowledge and information c…
CARIS is please to announce the appointment of Paul R. Cooper, Vice President of CARIS USA as Chairman of the Institutional Strengthening and Technical Cooperation Committee of the US National Section of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH).
The PAIGH (www.ipgh.org) is a…
REMED srl has joined the CARIS Alliance Program and is now responsible for the marketing and promotion of CARIS software in the Italian territory and in other Adriatic and Mediterranean countries.
Through the Alliance Program, REMED will provide sales and marketing support for CARIS software f…
The Institute of Harbor and Marine Technology (IHMT) in Taiwan has selected CARIS Bathy DataBASE software for management of large bathymetric data sets, interoperability and distribution.
The major duties of the IHMT include: research and development of harbor and ocean-related engineering tec…
CARIS is pleased to announce the release of version 4.3 of its web mapping software, Spatial Fusion Enterprise, featuring real-time target tracking.
Spatial Fusion Enterprise is a web mapping engine for the integration of existing data from many sources, formats and locations and introduces ge…
CARIS is pleased to announce Mike Robinson, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) will deliver the Opening Keynote Address at CARIS 2008, 12th International User Group Conference and Educational Sessions 22-26 September in Bath, United Kingdom.
Under the theme Make a…
The Minister of Development, Pehin Orang Kaya Hamzah Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Abdullah Begawan Mudim Dato Paduka Hj Bakar, launched the 'Brunei Spatial Data Infrastructure' (BSDI) at Dewan Betabur of the Ministry of Development yesterday morning.
According to Surveyor General Hj Mohd J…
Heeswijk, The Netherlands - March 31, 2008 - CARIS, a leading developer of geomatics software, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a contract by the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM) to deliver a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) to access its hydro…
CARIS, a leading developer of geomatics software, hosted sixteen delegates from the China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) at its global headquarters in Canada for two intensive weeks of training on CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) in January.
The training is part of a sale mad…
CARIS today announced the worldwide availability of S-57 Composer, the next-generation desktop software application for electronic chart production.
S-57 Composer represents the future in desktop production of S-57 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC), Additional Military Layers (AML) and Inla…
CARIS, a leading developer of geomatics software, has achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification. NSF International, an independent leader in ISO certification processes and services, conducted the audit.
A globally recognized quality management standard developed by the International Organization f…
CARIS, the leading provider of marine and hydrographic software, has appointed Mark Matthews as Senior Business Developer to focus on fostering business opportunities for the company's complete Ping-to-Chart product line across Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining CARIS, Mark began his career as a H…