1. IHO Work Programme 2 – “Hydrographic Services and Standards”
19th Conference of MBSHC
29 June – 3 July 2015 (Batumi, Georgia)
IHO Work Programme 2 – “Hydrographic Services and Standards”
Technical Programme Coordination
and Development on Technical Standards
(Agenda items MBSHC & MBSHC )
IHB

2. General
IHO Programme 2 Objective: “…to develop, maintain and extend technical standards, specifications and guidelines to enable the provision of standardised products and services that meet the requirements of mariners and other users of hydrographic information.”
Programme under the responsibility of the Hydrographic Services and Standards Committee (HSSC) with increasing and very important contribution being made by industry in their role as Expert Contributors
HSSC-6, Nov. 2014, Viña del Mar, Chile (44 rep. from 18 MS and 6 Expert Contributors from accredited international org.)
HSSC-7, Nov. 2015, Busan, Rep. of Korea

3. General
The new HSSC Working Group Structure…

4. Reorganized structure of the working groups of the HSSC
Establishment of 4 new working groups (WG):
S-100WG
ENC Standards Maintenance WG
Nautical Information Provision WG
Tides, Water Level and Currents WG
Continuation of 4 WG:
Chart Standardization & Paper Chart WG (CSPCWG) => Nautical Cartography WG
Data Protection Scheme WG
Data Quality WG
Hydrographic Dictionary WG
Transfer of the Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures WG (MSDIWG) from the HSSC to the IRCC
HSSC tasked the Directing Committee to seek the views of the Member States on the scope, topics and work items, if any, to be addressed through the possible establishment of a Hydrographic Surveys WG (IHO CL 25/2015 refers)

5. Progress made in the development of standards and specifications
MBSHC is invited to note the following:
S-4 Regulations for INT Charts and IHO Chart Specifications (Ed , Oct. 2014)
S-52 Specifications for Chart Content and Display Aspects of ECDIS (Ed , Oct. 2014) and its Presentation Library
S-64 IHO Test Data Sets for ECDIS (Ed , Oct. 2014)
C-51 A Manual on Technical Aspects of the UNCLOS (Ed , June )
S-63 IHO Data Protection Scheme (Ed , Jan. 2015)
S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model (Ed , June 2015)

6. Progress made in the development of standards and specifications
MBSHC is invited to note the following:
In HSSC Meeting Docs, every year,  Status Report on IHO Publications on Standards, Specifications and Guidelines
IRCC invited to consider the impact of the development of an IHO policy for trusted crowd-sourced bathymetry on the possible establishment of a Hydrographic Surveys WG (IHO CL 25/2015 refers as well)

7. Questions?