Calling UK government, Crown Dependency, Overseas Territory and private sector colleague participation A clear understanding of our Subsea National Infrastructure (SNI) is crucial to the UK, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Location-based data depicting SNI is important to a range …
In January 2026, the Blue Belt Programme embarked on its first expedition across the Caribbean, charting the previously unexplored waters of Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands. A team of 46 marine scientists spent six weeks …
As part of the Geospatial Commission, we're working with our partners to enhance our 'Core Data Asset' - the data each agency uses to create our varied products and services.
We work with a range of data suppliers to ensure our charts contain the latest safety information. One of these suppliers is the mariners themselves, sending crowdsourced information via our H-Note App.
Test automation is part of our core engineering practices at the UKHO. We blend traditional manual testing with automated testing to help deliver real value to our customers.
Part of the value of geospatial data lies in how easy it is to discover, access and use - this was the topic for our first workshop as part of the Geospatial Commission.
Find out how we process Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) data to gain valuable insight into our oceans and how they’re used.
We've introduced 'guilds' for staff who want to share their knowledge, learn more, build relationships, and take forward ideas.
Find out how software development at the UKHO has changed over the years from Head of Digital Services and Technology, Graham Smith.
We've launched a returnship to help software engineers return to work after a career break
We consume vast amounts of data and information for a wide range of applications. Learn more about data science at the UKHO.
UKHO Data Scientist Catherine Seale gives an overview of her automated 'blob detection' project, as presented at Sprint 18.