Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center

The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center, located at the University of New Hampshire, is a national center of expertise in ocean mapping and hydrographic sciences.

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  • Cover of Winter 2025 UNH Magazine showing Drix in water at sunset.

    What Lies Beneath

    CCOM research is the cover story of the Winter 2025 issue of UNH Magazine.

    Learn how CCOM is revealing the ocean's depths

  • Screenshot from Chronicle segment showing field of sea ice.
    Chronicle Visits CCOM

    Chronicle's Anthony Everett recently visited CCOM to interview Larry Mayer about the Center's participation in the GEOEO24 expedition to Northern Greenland. Click through to watch the segment.

    Watch the segment here

  • DriX in open water

    Two DriX Are Better than One

    Get all the details about the upcoming Dual DriX Project in the Gulf of Maine where uncrewed surface vehicles DriX 12 and DriX 23 will be tested in ocean mapping and data acquisition with shore-based operations.

    Visit the expedition page

  • Hailey Gilman and the Nancy Foster

    Nancy Foster Summer Cruises

    Hailey Gilman and Reilly Lessard, two of the CCOM graduate students who participated in a program aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster this summer, have written about their experiences.

    Read about their time at sea

Recent Publications

New Hydrographic Survey Specifications - Updates and Enhancements
2025 US Hydro Conference. Wilmington Convention Center, North Carolina, 2025.

Advances in Ocean Mapping and Nautical Cartography
Masetti, G, Church, I, Hiroji, AD, Andersen, O., MDPI Books, pp. 184, March 2025

Calculating 3D Rugosity Maps for Complex Habitat Scans
K. Beregovyi, Dijkstra, J. A., and Butkiewicz, T., Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 12, p. 1449332, 2025.


Vessel Trajectory Data Mining: A Review
A. Troupiotis-Kapeliaris, Kastrisios, C., and Zissis, D., IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 4827-4856, 2025.


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