S-100 will support items such as imagery and gridded data, 3D and time-varying data (x, y, z, and time), and new applications that go beyond the scope of traditional hydrography; for example, high-density bathymetry, sea floor classification and marine GIS. It will also enable the use of web-based services for acquiring, processing, analysing, accessing and presenting data. It is important to recognise that S-100 is not an incremental revision of the current Edition 3.1 of S-57. S-100 will be a new standard that includes additional content and support of new data exchange formats.
S-100 was released as a draft version in February 2008 and is in its development phase.
