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CSB Tools Workshop 2026

Have you considered how your boat's depth soundings could contribute to global databases or local maps? Or how your hardware or software company could support crowdsourced bathymetry (CSB) efforts? If so, and whether you are exploring how to collect and use this data or are already involved in CSB, this workshop is for you!

IHO Strategic Plan and Work Programme

  This Strategic Plan sets the course for the IHO as it navigates opportunities and challenges on a 6-year cycle. The forthcoming 2027 to 2032 period promises profound transformation in world hydrography with the introduction of a new generation of electronic navigation products and services in line with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) E-Navigation and maritime digitalization strategy. To succeed in this evolving landscape, this Plan identifies specific strategic goals and targets that will guide the IHO's Work Programme, fostering its vision, mission, and objectives, and establishing clear performance indicators to track progress. The IHO Work Programme is the annual operational plan approved by Member States, translating the IHO Strategic Plan into concrete programmes, objectives and actions delivered by the Secretariat and IHO bodies.      

CSBWG IRCC Workshop 2024

IHO and NOAA Reaffirm their Commitment to Ocean Data with a New MoU

During the 2023 International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Assembly, Secretary General Dr. Mathias Jonas announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA has supported the IHO since 1990 by hosting the IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry (DCDB), an online, open-access database that stores ocean depth data from around the world.

Region F ICCWG (2017)

S-57 Standards in Force

Introduction SOLAS regulations V/18 and V/19, requires that in order to achieve chart carriage requirements (in terms of SOLAS), the ECDIS equipment must conform to the relevant IMO performance standards. ECDIS units on board  are  required  to  comply  with  one  of  two  performance  standards  (either  IMO resolution A.817(19), as amended; or resolution MSC.232(82)), depending on the date of their installation.

S-57 Standards in Force

Introduction SOLAS regulations V/18 and V/19, requires that in order to achieve chart carriage requirements (in terms of SOLAS), the ECDIS equipment must conform to the relevant IMO performance standards. ECDIS units on board  are  required  to  comply  with  one  of  two  performance  standards  (either  IMO resolution A.817(19), as amended; or resolution MSC.232(82)), depending on the date of their installation.

S-100 Standards in Force

Introduction SOLAS regulations V/18 and V/19, requires that in order to achieve chart carriage requirements (in terms of SOLAS), the ECDIS equipment must conform to the relevant IMO performance standards. ECDIS units on board  are  required  to  comply  with  one  of  two  performance  standards  (either  IMO resolution A.817(19), as amended; or resolution MSC.232(82)), depending on the date of their installation.

Seabed features named after eminent American and Russian scientists

  The work of two outstanding scientists has been recognized this year by the IHO-IOC GEBCO Sub-Committee of Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) through the approval of the naming of two major undersea features.