Open Geospatial Consortium Overview and why we are adopting the standards

Thanks Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of OGC for slides

The OGC Vision A world in which all people and institutions benefit from spatial information resources and supporting technology services OGC CityGML Urban Model of Berlin Source: Aeronautical SkyView2 uses multiple OGC Standards

The OGC Mission development, promotion and harmonization of open and freely available geospatial standards … To serve as a global forum for the development, promotion and harmonization of open and freely available geospatial standards … Geoportal of the Catalonia SDI Natural Resources Canada

OGC Snapshot Founded in Currently 348 members – Industry, Government, Academia Twenty-five adopted standards Hundreds of product implementations Four OGC Standards are now also ISO Standards

Enabling Interoperability Within and Between Communities of Use Web Map Service (OGC & ISO) Style Layer Descriptor (OGC) Feature Model & GML (OGC & ISO) Web Feature Service (OGC & ISO) Web Coverage Service (OGC) Web Map Context (OGC) Catalogue (OGC ) Metadata (ISO & OGC) Others… Publish, discover, access, fuse and apply geospatial information from multiple sources across the web Data related to Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Weather, Climate, Homeland Security, Defense & Intelligence are geospatial can be managed through OGC web services in the enterprise.

© 2009 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC Works Closely With Standards Organizations and Consortia in the Technology Community OGC Works Closely With Standards Organizations and Consortia in the Technology Community –Primary Alliances for standards coordination Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) OASIS International Organization for Standards (ISO) National Emergency Number Association (NENA) COMCARE Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) –Secondary alliances Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) Web3D World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) IEEE GRSS and ICEO Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG) –Others

OGC Web Services (OWS) Copyright © 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Web Map Service (WMS) Web Feature Service (WFS) Web Coverage Service (WCS) Catalogue (CSW) Geography Markup Language (GML) Web Map Context (WMC) OGC KML Others… Just as is the dial tone of the World Wide Web, and html / xml are the standard encodings, the geospatial web is enabled by OGC standards: Relevant to geospatial information applications: Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Weather, Climate, Homeland Security, Defense & Intelligence, Oceans Science, others Web Map Server Web Coverage Server Web Feature Server

Variety of Clients for OWS © 2009 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OGC-based Policy Positions European Union INSPIRE Directive emphasizing ISO and OGC standards for improved interoperability UK Ordnance Survey distributes its MasterMap product using OGC standards. Canadian, Australian, US, Indian and other national Spatial Data programs recommend OGC standards as best practice for interoperability US CIA and DHS have adopted OGC as part of their Geospatial Enterprise Architectures.

Other OGC Based Policy Positions Defense and Intelligence Community –National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency –NATO C3 Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

OGC’s Approach for Advancing Interoperability Interoperability Program (IP) - a global, innovative, hands-on prototyping and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and validation, and bring interoperability to the market Specification Development Program – Consensus processes similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA, OMG, etc.). Outreach and Community Adoption Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC specifications, business development, communications programs Rapid Interface Development Standards Setting Market Adoption

Why is SLIP using OGC? Do not wish to recreate the wheel Ability to influence International Standards Ability to be involved in International Collaborations Broad scale interoperability

OGC Public References Adopted Standards: – Sensor Web Enablement: – OGC Reference Model: – Compliance Testing and Certification – List of Registered Products using OGC Standards: – OGC User – case studies of OGC implementations in the global community –

A Few Community References Geospatial Standards Return on Investment Study: – Geospatial Profile of the Federal Enterprise Architecture – Landgate (Western Australia) Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) Enabler – NATO C3 Technical Architecture – rationale%2Fapb.htmlhttp://nc3ta.nc3a.nato.int/website/book.asp?menuid=15&vs=3&page= rationale%2Fapb.html GeoINT Standards: Enabling A Common Vision –

A Few More Community References Global Spatial Data Infrastructure – North Carolina One Map – National Forest System (Canada) Technical Overview –