Professional Status and job opportunities

The expected careers are:

🔵 Hydrography for Nautical Cartography: collection, processing and representation of hydro-geographic data, with particular attention to modern presentation systems (vector and raster electronic maps);

🔵 Hydrography for port management and coastal engineering: geomorphological, hydrographic and oceanographic surveys for local and port management, coastal engineering works and land management, crucial in emergency situations;

🔵 Remote sensing: illustration of all phases of data processing, analysis and return with main reference to hydro-oceanographic applications and with active and passive remote sensing methods.

The purpose of this post-graduate course is to train highly specialized professionals to perform delicate tasks and to respond flexibly to a rapidly evolving demand, also exploiting new technologies.

FIG/IHO/ICA Category A Hydrographic Surveyor

The course is designed by the international standards set forth in IHO publication - S5A "Standards of Competence for Category A Hydrographic Surveyors – and allows participants to qualify as Category A Hydrographic Surveyor as per the IBSC (FIG / IHO / ICA International Board on Standards of Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers following successful completion of a practical training experience.

With this Master's degree and after two years of work in the field, participants will be able to qualify as FIG/IHO/ICA Category A Hydrographic Surveyor, the highest internationally recognized qualification.

The Italian Navy also reserves the right to have a number of their officers and/or from foreign Armed Forces without the required admission qualifications attend lessons as listeners in order to be certified as FIG/IHO/ICA Category A Hydrographic Surveyor.

Work in the private sector

Participants will be able to find employment in private companies in the following fields:

• marine resource exploitation;
• seabed exploration and mapping;
• port and coastal maritime works;
• submarine works (dredging, laying of cables and pipelines, foundations of maritime works);
• production of nautical instruments;
• charting.

Work in the public sector

In the public sector, there are opportunities for employment at:

• the Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Hydrological Service;
• Region Administration, in the management of coastal areas and inland waters in the prevention of disasters and in rescue interventions;
• Port Authorities, in planning, direction and supervision;
• Civil protection;
• the Italian Hydrographic Institute itself;
• Research Institutes.