Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Overview Steven Ramage January 7, 2011

Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Introduction 2

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Vision and Mission The OpenGIS® Vision Achieve the full societal, economic and scientific benefits of integrating location resources into commercial, institutional and organisational processes worldwide. The OGC Mission To serve as a global forum for and lead the development, promotion and harmonization of open and freely available geospatial standards.

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count What is the OGC? Not-for-profit, international standards development consortiumNot-for-profit, international standards development consortium 405+ industry, government, and university members405+ industry, government, and university members Specification Development Program (since 1994)Specification Development Program (since 1994) –Class A liaison with ISO/TC211 –28 Implementation Standards, with additional standards profiles, and best practice documents… –OGC Reference Model defines interoperable geo architecture Interoperability Program (since 1999)Interoperability Program (since 1999) –A global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and bring interoperability to the market Outreach and Community Adoption Program (since 2002)Outreach and Community Adoption Program (since 2002) –Awareness raising, education and training, encourage take up of OpenGIS® specifications, business development 4

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC organization 5

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC’s approach to advancing interoperability 6 Interoperability Program (IP) – a global, innovative, hands-on rapid prototyping engineering and testing program for accelerating interface development and bringing interoperability to the market. Specification Development Program – consensus processes similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMG, etc.). Outreach and Community Adoption Program – education and training, encourage use of OGC standards, business development, communications programs Rapid Interface Development Standards Setting Market Adoption

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC process 7 New Sponsors & Participants Comments New SDO liaisons 1) Testbeds & 2) Interoperability Experiments: OWS 1 thru 8 testbeds (TBs) Oceans Interop Interop. Exper. (IE) Fusion Standards Study IE Emergency Mapping Symbology TB Open Location Services TB Web Mapping TB etc. Candidate standards Interoperability Program Marketing & Communications Program Specification Program: Standards Review & Adoption (PC & TC) New Standards & Best Practices & Harmonization with other SDO’s standards Vendor Implementation & user uptake 3. Pilot Projects: GeoConnections Canada Geosp. OneStop Transportation GEOSS AIP Critical Infrastruct. Protection Civil Works Tech. Insertion Multi-hazard Mapping etc. Other SDOs

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OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC membership is international 9

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Scope of membership - examples Academia/Research: 100+ institutions worldwide Sensors: 3eTI, Smart Sensor Systems, IRIS Corp, Overwatch Systems… Government: JRC, EUSC, ESA; US DHS, EPA, Census, Geological Survey, Army Corps TEC, DISA, NGA, NASA; Oak Ridge National Labs; United Nations; Natural Resources Canada; Geosciences Australia; and others at the national, provincial, state and local levels. Geospatial/AEC/CAD: Analytical Graphics Inc., Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Blue Marble Geographics, Cadcorp, ESRI, e-spatial, Galdos, Intergraph, Ionic, Laser- Scan, MapInfo, NavisWorks, NAVTEQ, PCI Geomatics, others… Infrastructure: Oracle, Google, Shell Exploration… Integrators / Engineering: BAE Systems, Boeing, EADS Astrium, Lockheed Martin, GeoDecisions, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Mitre, Hansa Luftbild, Tetra Tech, Michael Baker, others… Telecom/LBS: Telecom. Systems, Tele Atlas N.V., SiRF 10

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Member types as percentage of membership 11 University 29% Industry 41% Research 7% NGO 3% Government 20%

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC activities are driven by societal needs 12 Health Education & Research Sustainable Development Energy Consumer ServicesGeosciences E -Government Utilities

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Many policies specify OGC Standards Group on Earth Observations National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency US Federal Enterprise Architecture (Geospatial Profile) NATO C3 United Nations Strategic Plan 13

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count More OGC-based policy positions European Union INSPIRE technical architecture built around OGC specifications OGC is a Participating Organization of GEO and leads the task to create the GEOSS persistent network of publicly accessible services for demonstration and research. NGA, USGS, and NASA are Strategic Members (our highest level) USGS Framework Features served with WFS and WMS Canada Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Implements OGC Web Service Specifications UK Ordnance Survey using GML format to distribute its MasterMap product CIA and DHS have adopted OGC as part of their Geospatial Enterprise Architectures Compliance tests are now in place for a DGIWG profile of WMS 14

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Communities address interoperability issues in OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group (HDWG) –Groundwater Interoperability Experiment –Surface Water Interoperability Experiment Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group (MDWG) –WMS Interoperability Experiment –Conceptual Model Interoperability Experiment AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC Persistent Testbed (PTB) 3DIM (urban models, Building Information Models etc.) Defense and Intelligence Domain Working Group (D&I WG) Earth Systems Science Domain Working Group (ESS WG) Mass Market Domain Working Group (MassMarket WG) Others… 15

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC works with many Standards Development Organizations International Organization for Standards (ISO) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) buildingSMART International / Alliance (bSi / bSa) IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) Web3D Consortium And others… 16

Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Standards 17

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Approved OGC® Standards 18 Available free of charge at Web Services – Web Map Service (WMS) {ISO} – Web Feature Service (WFS) {ISO} – Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Catalog Services for the Web (CS/W) – Coordinate Transformation XML Encodings – Geography Markup Language (GML) {ISO} – KML – Web Map Context Sensor Web Enablement – SensorML – TransducerML – Sensor Observation Service (SOS) – Sensor Planning Service (SPS) – Sensor Alert Service (SAS) Open Location Services (OpenLS) {ISO} Tightly coupled – Simple Feature Access – OLE, SQL, CORBA {ISO} – Grid Coverages Others (33 total as of January 2011, plus profiles, best practices, discussion papers, white papers, etc.

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Service interface and encoding standards 19 Catalogue Services –Catalogue Service Processing Services –Open Location Services (OpenLS) –Coordinate Transformation Service –Sensor Planning Service (SPS) –Web Processing Service (WPS) Portrayal Services –Web Map Service Data Services –Grid Coverage Service –Simple Features (4) –Web Coverage Service –Web Feature Service Encodings –Geography Markup Language (GML) –Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) –Transducer Markup Language (TML) –Sensor Model Language (SensorML) –CityGML –Web Map Context (WMC) –Observations & Measurements (O&M) –Filter Encoding –KML –Symbology Encoding –GML in JPEG 2000 –Geographic Objects –GeoXACML Web Services Common –Services in common across multiple standards

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Geography Mark-up Language (GML) application schema examples CityGML ( –Common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects. It defines the classes and relations for the most relevant topographic objects in cities and regional models with respect to their geometrical, topological, semantic and appearance properties. Included are generalization hierarchies between thematic classes, aggregations, relations between objects, and spatial properties. GeoSciML ( –GeoSciML accommodates the goal of representing geoscience information associated with geologic maps and observations, as well as being extensible in the long-term to other geoscience data.GeoSciML –An approved standard in that community MarineXML ( –Marine Data exchange based on ISO19136 (GML Feature Types). The alignment between ISO and OGC on ISO19136 makes GML the clear (only) choice for developing an XML-based framework for marine data exchange. AIXM/GML ( –The Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) Specification supports the data-centric environment. It supports aeronautical information collection, dissemination and transformation throughout the data chain 20

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Web Map Service (WMS) can get multiple maps 21 Multiple overlaid maps One GetMap request: Borders Elevation Cloud Cover Cities

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Integrated Decision Support Integrated Decision Support 22 Web Map Server Web Coverage Server Web Feature Server With OGC web services, an analyst or operator can dynamically access that data which is relevant to the task at hand, directly from the authoritative data steward, using a variety of tools.

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count “Chaining” Web services For decision support 23 … WCS (NASA Data Pool) WICS (Producer-C,Vendor-3) WCTS (Producer-B, Vendor-2) WFS (Producer-n, Vendor-x) Internet Web Servers OGC Interfaces Service chaining creates Value-added products Decision Support Client Demonstrated in 2004 as part of OGC Web Services Testbed 2 Assess Wildfire Activity

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Sensor Web Enablement Sensors connected to and discoverable on the Web Sensors have position & generate observations Sensor descriptions available Services to task and access sensors Local, regional, national scalability Enabling the Enterprise 24 Webcam Environmental Monitor Industrial Process Monitor Stored Sensor Data Traffic Monitoring Satellite-borne Imaging Device Airborne Imaging Device Health Monitor Strain Gauge Temp Sensor Automobile As Sensor Probe

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Standards Information Models and Schema –Sensor Model Language (SensorML) for In-situ and Remote Sensors - Core models and schema for observation processes: support for sensor components, georegistration, response models, post measurement processing –Observations and Measurements (O&M) – Core models and schema for observations –TransducerML – adds system integration and real-time streaming clusters of observations Web Services –Sensor Observation Service - Access Observations for a sensor or sensor constellation, and optionally, the associated sensor and platform data –Sensor Alert Service – Subscribe to alerts based upon sensor observations –Sensor Planning Service – Request collection feasibility and task sensor system for desired observations –Web Notification Service –Manage message dialogue between client and Web service(s) for long duration (asynchronous) processes –Sensor Registries – Discover sensors and sensor observations 25

OGC Copyright 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Public Resources Adopted Standards: – OGC Reference Model: – OGC Web Services 6 Testbed Demonstration Videos – Compliance Testing and Certification – List of Registered Products using OGC Standards: – OGC Network – member-contributed OGC “encyclopedia” – OGC User – case studies of OGC implementations in the global community – click on “Press Room” 26