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Technical/High Level Visits to Sierra Leone and Liberia Freetown, Sierra Leone 12 – 13 January Monrovia, Liberia 14 – 16 January 2026

Council Members Discuss Progress in Transition to Smart Navigation and More

130 participants representing 45 Member States, Observers and partner organizations gathered at the IHO Secretariat in Monaco and online for the annual meeting of the Council from 15-17 October. Participants discussed topics covering education and training, technology, a potential new infrastructure center and of course the transition to smart navigation. With the provision of products and services scheduled to begin in January 2026, many of the discussions focused on progress with the implementation of S-100, the Universal Hydrographic Data Model. The main goals of the meeting were to review the work plan, take stock of progress, and decide on priority areas for the coming year.

Inter-Regional Coordination Committee discusses strategic IHO endeavours

The Inter-Regional Coordination Committee (IRCC) met last week in Denpasar, Bali to review progress and next steps for the Regional Hydrographic Commissions and various thematic working groups. Hosted by Pushidrosal, the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Centre of the Indonesian Navy, it provided a forum to discuss ocean mapping, nautical cartography, capacity-building, etc. as well as to identify actions to be taken at regional and global levels. 

IHO S-101 to S-199

Introduction An S-100 based Product Specification defines a data product, and usually includes additional resources such as a machine readable Feature Catalogue and Portrayal Catalogue, a data Encoding Guide and at least one data encoding format. The latest published versions of IHO S-100 based Product Specifications can be downloaded directly from the Product Specification Register of the IHO Geospatial Information (GI) Registry; and links to the Product Specifications can be found on the IHO Standards and Specifications Download Page. A guidance document S-97 for developing Product Specifications can also be downloaded from the IHO Standards and Specifications Download Page. A list of known IHO S-100 based Product Specifications is provided below:

CBSC20 (2022)

20th Capacity Building Sub-Committee Meeting (CBSC20) Denpasar - Bali, Indonesia + VTC (Hybrid Meeting) 1-3 June 2022   Last Update on the List of Documents: 28 May 2022 

IRCC14 (2022)

14th Inter-Regional Coordination Committee (IRCC14) Denpasar - Bali, Indonesia + VTC (Hybrid Meeting) 6-8 June 2022 + 9 June 2022 Seminar Seminar with the theme "Hydrography - contributing to the United Nations Ocean Decade" (Invitation letter from Pushidrosal) Last Update on the List of Documents: 24 May 2022

HSSC14 (2022)

IHO Hydrographic Services and Standards Committee (HSSC) 14th HSSC Meeting Denpasar-Bali, Indonesia + VTC (Hybrid Meeting) 16 - 19 May 2022   Last Update: 1 Aug 2022    

S-100WG5 (2020)

5th S-100 Working Group (S-100WG) Meeting  Taunton, UK (3 to 6 March 2020)

Empowering Women in Hydrography: A Transformative Three-Year Journey Towards Gender Equality

Like other disciplines within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), hydrography exhibits a gender imbalance, particularly in advanced career stages. Currently, just over 10% of the 99 Member States of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) have a female National Hydrographer. And while women represent roughly half the population, only 24.8% of them occupy leadership positions with national hydrographic offices. In today’s competitive world, organizations need qualified employees to help them achieve their objectives. By not tapping into half of the available talent pool, they could be missing out.   Acknowledging this disparity, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service collaboratively initiated a Canadian-funded, groundbreaking three-year project titled "Empowering Women in Hydrography," aimed at fostering gender equality in the field.