1. नमस्ते !
Standards of ISO Technical Committee 211 Geographic information/Geomatics
Presented by
Julie Maitra
To GSDI-7 Tutorial
Bangalore, India
January 30, 2004 1

2. Topics Scope of work Goals Membership External liaisons
Program of work – over 40 standards
Views of program of work
Role of ISO standards in Spatial Data Infrastructures
Status of standards in ISO standards approval process
Published standards
Draft International Standards
Emerging Standards
Standards of particular interest
Roles of standards organizations
For more information
Get involved!

3. Scope of ISO/TC 211work
Standardization in the field of digital geographic information.
This work aims to establish a structured set of standards known as the ISO series of geographic information standards.
This work shall link to appropriate standards for information technology and data where possible, and provide a framework for the development of sector-specific applications using geographic data.

4. The goal of ISO/TC 211... …a family of international standards that
support understanding and usage of geographic information
increase the availability, access, integration, and sharing of geographic information
enable interoperability of geospatially enabled computer systems
contribute to a unified approach to addressing global issues
ease the establishment of SDIs on local, regional, and global levels

5. Membership Active members (P-members), 29 countries
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
China
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Japan
Republic of Korea
Malaysia
Morocco
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America
Yugoslavia 3

6. Membership Observing members 27 (20 O-members, 4 corresponding members)
Argentina
Bahrain (corr.)
Brunei Darussalam (corr.)
Colombia
Cuba
Estonia (corr.)
France
Greece
Hong Kong (corr.)
Iceland
India
Iran
Ireland
Jamaica
Kenya
Mauritius
Netherlands
Oman
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Tanzania
Ukraine
Uruguay
Zimbabwe 3

7. External liaisons CEOS, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
DGIWG, Digital Geographic Information Working Group
EPSG, European Petroleum Survey Group
FIG, International Federation of Surveyors
GSDI, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
IAG, International Association of Geodesy
ICA, International Cartographic Association
ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
IHB, International Hydrographic Bureau
ISCGM, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
ISPRS, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
JRC, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
OGC, Open GIS Consortium, Incorporated
PCGIAP, The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific
UN Economic Commission for Europe, Statistical Division
UNGIWG, United Nations Geographic Information Working Group
WMO, World Meteorological Organization
PC IDEA, Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas
SCAR, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
UNGEGN, United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
CEN/TC 287, Geographic information
Those organizations highlighted in bold are those for which I know India has more than token participation – there might be others 4

8. Programme of Work
ISO Schema for coverage geometry and functions
ISO/RS Imagery and gridded data components
ISO Simple feature access – Part 1-3
ISO Profile - FACC Data Dictionary
ISO Geodetic codes and parameters
ISO Web Map Server Interface
ISO Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
ISO Sensor and data model for imagery and gridded data
ISO Data product specification
ISO Location based services possible standards
ISO Location based services tracking and navigation
ISO Multimodal location based services for routing and navigation
ISO Procedures for registration of geographic information items
ISO – Geography Markup Language (GML)
ISO Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas
ISO – Data quality measures
ISO Metadata - Implementation specification
ISO Technical amendment to the ISO 191** Geographic information series of standards for harmonization and enhancements
ISO 6709:1983, Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations
ISO Reference model
ISO – Overview
ISO/TS Conceptual schema language
ISO Terminology
ISO Conformance and testing
ISO Profiles
ISO Spatial schema
ISO Temporal schema
ISO Rules for application schema
ISO Feature cataloguing methodology
ISO Spatial referencing by coordinates
ISO Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO Quality principles
ISO Quality evaluation procedures
ISO – Metadata
ISO Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
ISO Positioning services
ISO – Portrayal
ISO Encoding
ISO Services
ISO/TR Functional standards + Amendment 1
ISO/TR Imagery and gridded data
ISO/TR Qualifications and certification of personnel

9. Role of ISO standards in Spatial Data Infrastructures
Access, technology
Content (data)
Organization
Education
ISO Conceptual schema language ISO Spatial schema ISO Temporal schema ISO Rules for application schema ISO Feature cataloguing methodology ISO Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers ISO Quality principles ISO Quality evaluation procedures ISO – Metadata ISO/TR Imagery and gridded data ISO Schema for coverage geometry and functions ISO Imagery and gridded data components ISO Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO Geodetic codes and parameters ISO Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework ISO Sensor and data model for imagery and gridded data ISO Data product specification ISO Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas
ISO/TR Qualifications and certification of personnel
Documentation

10. Role of ISO standards in Spatial Data Infrastructures
Access and services
ISO Positioning services ISO – Portrayal ISO – Encoding ISO – Services ISO Simple feature access – Common architecture ISO – SFA – SQL option
ISO Web Map Server Interface ISO Location based services possible standards
ISO Location based services tracking and navigation
ISO Multimodal location based services for routing and navigation ISO – Geography Markup Language (GML)
Standards
Access, technology
Content (data)
Organization
Education
Organization
ISO – Reference model ISO – Terminology ISO – Conformance and testing ISO – Profiles ISO/TR – Functional standards ISO – Procedures for registration of geographic information items

11. Published International Standards
ISO 6709:1983 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations
ISO 19101:2002 Geographic information — Reference model
ISO 19105:2000 Geographic information — Conformance and testing
ISO 19107:2003 Geographic information — Spatial schema
ISO 19108:2002 Geographic information — Temporal schema
ISO 19111:2003 Geographic information — Spatial referencing by coordinates
ISO 19112:2003 Geographic information — Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO 19113:2002 Geographic information — Quality principles
ISO 19114:2003 Geographic information — Quality evaluation procedures
ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information — Metadata
ISO/TR 19120:2001 Geographic information — Functional standards
ISO/TR 19121:2000 Geographic information — Imagery and gridded data
This slide and the following standards identify mature standards that should form the basis for national standards

12. Draft International Standards
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Terminology
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Profiles
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Rules for application schema
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Feature cataloguing methodology
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Positioning services
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Portrayal
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Encoding
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Services
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Simple feature access — Part 1: Common architecture
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Simple feature access — Part 2: SQL option

13. Emerging Standards ISO/TS 19103 - Conceptual schema language
ISO Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
ISO/TR Qualifications and certification of personnel
ISO Schema for coverage geometry and functions
ISO/RS Imagery and gridded data components
ISO Profile - FACC Data Dictionary
ISO Geodetic codes and parameters
ISO Web Map Server Interface
ISO Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
ISO Sensor and data model for imagery and gridded data
ISO Data product specification
ISO Location based services possible standards
ISO Location based services tracking and navigation
ISO Multimodal location based services for routing and navigation
ISO Procedures for registration of geographic information items
ISO – Geography Markup Language (GML)
ISO Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas
ISO – Data quality measures
ISO Metadata - Implementation specification
ISO Technical amendment to the ISO 191** Geographic information series of standards for harmonization and enhancements
There is still the opportunity to contribute to development of ISO standards. I have highlighted in bold those projects that focus on imagery and remote sensing.

14. Standards of Interest
ISO/DIS Geographic information — Rules for application schema
ISO Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions
ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information — Metadata

15. Presents General Feature Model for defining geographic features
Standards of Interest: ISO/DIS Geographic information — Rules for application schema
Presents General Feature Model for defining geographic features
Provides rules for defining an application schema in Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Provides rules for integrating schemas from other ISO/TC 211 standards into an application schema for a complete data structure
Pending registration as Final Draft International Standard (FDIS); targeted for publication as an International Standard (IS) in May 2004.
ISO 19115: 2003, Geographic information — Metadata (including data quality reporting)
ISO 19108:2002, Geographic information — Temporal schema
ISO 19107:2003, Geographic information — Spatial schema.
ISO defines both geometric and topological objects. In the definition of an application schema, ISO uses structures and definitions from ISO 19111:2003, Geographic information – Spatial Referencing by Coordinates, for geodetic and other coordinate reference systems.
ISO/DIS 19110, Geographic information — Feature Cataloguing Methodology
ISO 19112:2003, Geographic information — Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

16. Standards of Interest: ISO/DIS 19109 Geographic information — Rules for application schema
3 property types: operation, attribute, association roles
Other concepts: feature associations, inheritance relationships, and constraints
6 attribute types; 5 defined by other standards in the ISO series of geographic information standards
Extract of General Feature Model

17. Standards of Interest: ISO 19123 Geographic information — Schema for coverage geometry and functions
Defines coverage as a “feature that acts as a function to return values from its range for any direct position within its spatiotemporal domain.”
Data sets that can be represented as coverages include digital orthoimages, gridded elevation data sets, and thematic classification maps such as soils maps.
Representation of geographic phenomena as discrete features or coverages is not mutually exclusive. A discrete feature or a coverage could represent the same phenomenon.
Pending registration as a Draft International Standard (DIS); targeted for publication as IS in May 2005.
Put another way, A coverage is a feature that associates positions within a bounded space (its spatiotemporal domain) to feature attribute values (its range).

18. Standards of Interest: ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information — Metadata
The main package in ISO is Metadata entity set information. It is an aggregate of other packages:
Identification information – information to uniquely identify a resource or resources
Constraint information – restrictions on access and use of a resource or metadata
Data quality information – scope, lineage (information about events or source data used to construct the data), and data quality element information.
Maintenance information - scope and frequency of updating data.
Spatial representation information - information concerning the mechanisms (grid or vector) used to represent spatial information in a dataset.
Reference system information - description of spatial and temporal reference system(s)
Completeness, Logical Consistency, Positional Accuracy, Thematic Accuracy and Temporal Accuracy, as identified by ISO 19113, Geographic information – Data quality principles

19. Standards of Interest: ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information — Metadata (continued)
Content information – information about the feature catalogue used and/or information describing the content of a coverage dataset
Portrayal catalogue information - information identifying the portrayal catalogue used.
Distribution information - information about the distributor of and options for obtaining a resource.
Metadata extension information - information about user specified metadata extensions.
Application schema information - information about the application schema used to build a dataset.
Extent information – metadata elements that describe the spatial and temporal extent of the referring entity.
Citation and responsible party information - data types for citing a resource (dataset, feature, source, publication, etc.) and information about the party responsible for a resource.

20. Standards of Interest: ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information — Metadata (continued)

21. Roles of Consensus Organizations
ISO provides a framework for the development of sector-specific applications
Industry Consortia provide technical implementation specifications
OpenGIS Consortium has adopted standards developed by ISO/TC 211 as abstract specifications and has submitted its specs as New Work Item Proposals (NWIP)
Regional and national groups adopt international standards and standardize data and services using international standards
Topic 1 - Feature Geometry (Topic 1) same as ISO 19107, Spatial Schema (defines geometric and topological objects)
Topic 12 - The OpenGIS Service Architecture (Topic 12) same as ISO 19119, Services
ISO replaces Topics 9 and 11, Metadata

23. Meeting schedule Meeting 11th plenary 12th plenary 13th plenary
Place
Reston, VA, USA
Lisbon, Portugal
Adelaide, Australia
Bangkok, Thailand
Gyeongju, Rep. of Korea
Switzerland
Germany
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Baveno, Italy
Stockholm, Sweden
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Orlando, Florida, USA
Date
September 7-8, 2000
March 8-9, 2001
October 25-26, 2001
May 23-24, 2002
November 14-15, 2002
May 22-23, 2003
October/November, 2003
May 2004
October 2004
May/June, 2005
October/November 2003
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24. For More Information http://www.isotc211.org
Find current information on ISO/TC 211 at:
Secretariat
Organization
Calendar
About...
Resolutions
Document list
Scope and work programme
Mail to secretariat
News and information
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25. Get Involved!!
Contact your ISO member body for access to protected ISO/TC 211 documents
Comment on ISO/TC 211 documents
Contact ISO Chair Mr. Olaf Østensen or ISO/TC 211 Executive Secretary Ms. Bjørnhild Sæterøy about getting involved in ISO/TC 211
Implement mature ISO standards as part of SDI strategy in developing national standards
Upgrade membership in ISO/TC 211 to “P” status for voting privileges and full participation in development of emerging standards
See you at the ISO/TC 211 plenary in Kuala Lumpur in May 2004!

26. (Ms.) Julie Binder Maitra
Thank you !
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(Ms.) Julie Binder Maitra
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Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
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