Open Geospatial Consortium Introduction Status and Key activities

Open Geospatial Consortium: Introduction, Status and Key activities Carl Reed, PHD CTO OGC January 15, 2007 Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved.

Agenda • OGC Vision, Mission, and Goals • The structure of the OGC • Example major projects • Current focus areas • Collaboration with other Standards Development Organizations Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

The OGC Vision • To achieve the full societal, economic and scientific benefits of integrating electronic location resources into commercial and institutional processes worldwide. China Ministry of Land Resources Euro. Control Aeronautical Sky. View 2 application Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

The OGC Mission • To serve as a global forum for the development, promotion and harmonization of open and freely available geospatial standards … Natural Resources Canada Geoportal of the Catalonia SDI Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

The OGC process enables a global geospatial and IT community Composed of many collaborating organizations. . . authoring and publishing open standards for geospatial interoperability Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Strategic Goals (2007 Business Plan) • Goal 1 - Provide free and openly available standards to the market, tangible value to Members, and measurable benefits to users. • Goal 2 - Lead the creation of standards that allow geospatial content and services to be seamlessly integrated into business processes, the geospatial web, and enterprise computing. • Goal 3 - Facilitate the adoption of open, spatially enabled reference architectures in enterprise environments worldwide. • Goal 4 - Advance standards in support of the formation of new and innovative markets and applications for geospatial technologies. • Goal 5 - Accelerate market assimilation of interoperability research through collaborative consortium processes. Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

OGC Snapshot • Voluntary Consensus Standards Organization • Founded in 1994. • Twenty three adopted standards. Four are ISO standards Global Biodiversity Information Facility Geo. Sci. ML – GML Application Schema for the Geology community Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

OGC Snapshot • 349 member organizations from 34 countries & 6 continents – 156 North America – 146 Europe – 39 Asia-Pacific - 2 Africa - 1 South America - 5 Middle East • Additional Best Practices, Standards Profiles • OGC standards used in broader IT standards (OASIS, IETF, others) • Hundreds of product implementations Microsoft Terraserver Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

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 Rapid Interface Development • Specification Development Program Standards Setting –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 Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Market Adoption Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

The Specification Process and Program • Standards development using a consensus process • OGC Technical Committee OGC Planning Committee and OGC Architecture Board • Working Groups enable member focus on domains (e. g. Earth Observation), an aspect of architecture (e. g. Catalogue), or on a specific standard (e. g. WMS) Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

The OGC Interoperability Program (IP) • A global, collaborative, hands-on engineering, prototyping and testing designed to rapidly deliver – Candidate standards – “Demonstratable” implementations – Engineering Reports • Sponsors and Participants work together. – Sponsors provide requirements, use / business cases and funding – Participants work with sponsors to define and/or refine standards to solve a given interoperability problem Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Outreach and Community Adoption (OCAP) • Works with OGC members and user communities around the world to encourage "take up" or implementation of OGC standards, as well as to encourage new membership and engagement in OGC programs and initiatives. • Emphasis on: – Nurturing strategic partnerships and alliances – Developing and support regional and sector programs – Providing a comprehensive program of educational and communications services to members and the global public • Web, email and print publications • Conferences and symposiums • Training modules. Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Market Implementation AED Graphics AG…AED SICAD…Auto. Desk, Inc…. Berit, a. s…Blue Marble Geographics…C-Plan AG…Cadcorp Ltd…Caris…Carmenta AB…CCGIS…Chesapeake Analytics Corp…Choibarti t. E…Christian Michelsen Research AS…Cogent Logic Corp…Compusult Ltd…con terra Applied Information Technologies Ltd…Cubewerx…De. Lorme Publising, Inc…Demis bv…DM Solutions Group…e. Spatial…ESRI…Finnish Geodetic Institute…Galdos Systems Inc…GDC… GE Energy…GEF-RIS AG…Genaware…Geo. Arctic Ltd…Geodan Holding • Several hundred commercial and open source BV…Geometry Party Ltd…Geoserver…Geotask AG…Global Energy Consulting products are implementing Open. GIS Specifications Engineers Pvt. Ltd…Globe. Xplorer…HDM…Hitachi Ltd…IBM Corp…Info. Tech Enterprises Ltd…Innogistic Software Plc…INT, Inc…Interactive Instruments Gmb. H…Intergraph Corp…International Interfaces Inc…IONIC Software s. a…iter. dk…JAVA GIS Brazil…Laser-Scan…lat/lon…Luciad NV…M. O. S. S Computer Grafik Systeme Gmb. H…Mancke-Software…Map. Info Corp…Mira. Mon…MIT…Moxia • Visit www. opengeospatial. org “Resources” tab for details on Media Inc…Munisys Technologies Pty Ltc…NEC Geographic Products Inc…Naval Research Laboratory…Norkart…Novo Group…NTT Data Corp…Object. FX OGC products that implement and/or are certified compliant with Corp…Obvient Strategies…Offshore Systems Ltd…Oracle Corp…Pacific Geotech standards. Systems Ltd…PCI Geomatics…Pixxures…Polexis, Inc…rasdaman…Refractions Research Inc…Safe Software…Shenzhen Careland Information Systems Co. , Ltd…Skylab Mobilesystems…Snowflake Software…Social Change Online Pty. Ltd…SRI International…SRP Gmb. H…STAR INFORMATIC s. a…Super. Geo Techologies…SWBB Gmb. H…Tatuk. GIS…Telcontar…The Carbon Project…University of Minnesota…US Federal Geographic Data Committee…others Helping the World to Communicate Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Geographically • OGC consensus specifications freely available Rights Reserved.

OGC Alliance Partnerships – Primary Alliances for standards coordination • • • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) OASIS National Emergency Number Association (NENA) COMCARE Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) International Organization for Standards (ISO) Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) – Secondary alliances for standards harmonization and coordination • • Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) Object Management Group (OMG) Web 3 D World Wide Web Consortium (W 3 C) Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) IEEE GRSS Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG) – Others Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Example OGC-based Policy Positions • UK Ordnance Survey supporting GML encoding its Master. Map product • Canada Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Implements numerous OGC Web Service Specifications • US CIA and DHS have specified OGC standards as part of their Geospatial Enterprise Architectures. • Australian SDI recommends use of OGC standards, numerous enterprise implementations across the nation • European Union INSPIRE. • Open Location Services (mobile wireless) being built into consumer offerings from major location services vendors Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Sample OGC Policy Positions • National Geospatial. Intelligence Agency • NATO C 3 • US Federal Enterprise Architecture • Group on Earth Observations Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Major Program: GEOSS • The Group on Earth Observations, GEO, was established by a series of three ministerial-level summits. GEO includes 71 member countries, the European Commission, and 46 participating organizations working together to establish a Global Earth Observation System of Systems. • GEOSS will build on and add value to existing Earthobservation systems by coordinating their efforts, addressing critical gaps, supporting their interoperability, sharing information, reaching a common understanding of user requirements, and improving delivery of information to users. Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) http: //www. epa. gov/geoss/ • International Network that integrates remote sensing data, other geospatial information, models and monitoring data “I am thrilled with the promise of GEOSS. It can provide us with better information to use in decision-making, producing better decisions that are better informed with more data points. I hope to help make the promise of GEOSS a reality. ” Steve Johnson, EPA Administrator Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure • The CGDI is the underlying foundation needed to access, combine, and share geographic information (e. g. , maps, satellite images) over the Internet and gain new insights into social, environmental, and economic issues • Architecture - The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) is a distributed set of data, as well as services and applications that enable the sharing and use of geospatially referenced information. The CGDI is being developed by the Geoconnections program. • Dedicated to the use of international standards Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

CGDI Enabled Applications CGDI enables geospatial applications with online data and services Applications Consumers Applications Providers Data e. g. • Features • Coverages • Projects, Studies, Activities • Events, Situations. . . e. g. • Sustainable Development • Transportation Planning • Climate Change Monitoring • Disaster Response • Site Assessment • Infrastructure Portal. . . Providers CGDI Services e. g. • Discovery • Gazetteer • Visualization • Location-based. . . Helping the World to Communicate Consumers will be able Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All geospatial capabilities. to access many kinds of Geographically Rights Reserved.

CGDI Endorsed Specifications • Data / Service Discovery • Metadata: FGDC-CSDGM and ISO Metadata Standard (TC 211 IS 19115 and 19119) • Catalog / Access • Geo. Data Discovery, Catalog Service (Open. GIS spec based on z 39. 50 profile) • Visualization • Open. GIS Web Map Service (WMS) • Web map context • Data Access • Open. GIS Web Feature Service (WFS) • Data Encoding • Open. GIS Geography Markup Language (GML) • Data Presentation • Open. GIS Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) • Data Query • Open. GIS Filter Encoding Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Some OGC Member Focus Areas Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved.

Sensor Web Enablement Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Geospatial Rights Management • OGC members are leveraging broader standards-based Digital Rights Management (DRM) approaches in conjunction with OGC standards to support geospatial data and services rights management needs. Authentication Licensing Pricing Secure Distribution Geo. DRM Reference Model: http: //portal. opengeospatial. org/files/? artifact_id=14085 Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Mass Market • The mission of the Mass Market Working Group is to broaden the use of location-aware technologies in mainstream consumer, media, and business IT infrastructures. • Objectives: – understand the implementation barriers for these interest groups and document them in a format that can guide future technology design. – define a suite of services and information encodings that complement the existing OGC specifications, but are directly tailored to the requirements discovered in understanding the needs of the mass market • GEORSS and KML are among a group of active topics – KML is an OGC Best Practice Document – Geo. RSS has seen huge uptake Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

CAD-GIS Integration: 3 D City Models (City. GML) Source: T. H. Kolbe: Standardization of 3 D City Models • Urban Planning • Urban Modeling • Microclimate Analysis • Emergency Management and Response • Logistics Flow • Critical Infrastructure Management / Protection • Sustainable Communities • Retail Services Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Summary • OGC is facilitating a global forum for users and industry to reach agreement on open standards to improve interoperability • The OGC process has been successfully addressing community requirements since its inception in 1994 • OGC standards based solutions have been built out broadly in the marketplace • Growing base of policy in favor of OGC standards is accelerating adoption and implementation of interoperable solutions. • The User Community, their partners, and customers benefit significantly from open standards solutions Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

Questions? Carl Reed CTO and Exec Dir Spec Program creed@opengeospatial. org +1 970 402 0284 www. opengeospatial. org Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. , All Rights Reserved. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically