OGC relevance to Modeling and Simulation 3D Geospatial Modeling & Simulation Summit 100th OGC Technical Committee Orlando, FL USA Scott Simmons, OGC 19 September 2016

Agenda Why OGC is interested in the Modeling and Simulation community About the OGC Who uses our standards How we create standards How we test and improve standards

OGC’s Interest

It’s simple You have this… …and you need to make this... …or this Courtesy CAE

It’s valuable Geospatial data should be discoverable, accessible, and reusable for many purposes without multiple format changes Copyright © 2016 Open Geospatial Consortium

Facilitate compilation OGC standards Validated watertight geometry Consistent support for Coordinate Reference Systems Correlated database Complete web services Web processing services and automation Reach-back to data sources

All the cool people are doing it

The Open Geospatial Consortium Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading development of geospatial standards Founded in 1994 with 8 charter members 510+ members Over 50 standards and related best practices Thousands of product implementations Broad user community implementation worldwide Alliances and collaborative activities with many other organizations OGC was incorporated in 1994 as an international consortium devoted to making it easier to share, access, process and apply location information to decision making. Our mission is two fold: To advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that provide geospatial interoperability. Serve as the global forum for the collaboration of geospatial data / solution providers and users. Since our inception we have grown from 8 initial members to over 520 industry, government, academic, research and NGO members representing the Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our membership is diverse and well suited for addressing interoperability challenges, with strong representation from the user and industry communities, as well as active participation by research and academic organizations. All of these organizations work fluidly in the OGC process to define “pain points” in interoperability and to drive solutions forward ni key OGC programs.

Who uses our standards

887 implementing products from 261 organizations

Roles Data collectors Data builders Data providers Data fusers Metadata Data builders Simple features, GML, KML, CityGML Data providers WMS, WFS, WCS Data fusers WPS, WMS, WFS, WCS

Who Most of the providers of source data for the modeling and simulation community Defense and Intelligence organizations National mapping agencies NGOs Satellite operators The “Crowd”

Example Government Members DSTL (UK) - DLR (Germany) - DIGO (Australia) - NGA (USA) NOAA (USA) - NASA (USA) - USGS (USA) - USACE / AGC DISA (US) - DGIWG (NATO) - EUSC (Europe) - USAF Weather Agency NR Canada - MET Offices - DHS (US) - PM-ISE ODNI (US) European Satellite Centre - Naval MET and Oceanography Command Abu Dhabi Police (UAE) - BRGM (France) - Ordnance Survey (UK) Norwegian Building Authority - Norkart - Dubai Municipality (UAE) Dept Science & Tech. (India) - European Space Agency Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Korea) -Others… United Nations Over 100 Universities and Research institutes http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members

Example OGC Commercial Members These organisations bring domain expertise, their approach to standards based on their end customer requirements and they also build system architectures and solutions using standards. Some of them have even brought widely accepted solutions, such as KML into the OGC standards process.

Alliance Partners: Critical Resource for Advancing Standards … and others http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners 15

How we create standards

What is an OGC Standard? A document, established by consensus and approved by the OGC Membership, that provides rules and guidelines, aimed at the optimum degree of interoperability in a given context. Community requirements Member requirements Market trends Technology trends

Making a standard in five steps Identify requirements Form a Standards Working Group (SWG) Create the Standard Submit Standard for internal review and public comment OGC members vote to approve Standard

How we test and improve standards

OGC’s Approach for Advancing Interoperability Interoperability Program (IP) – a global, innovative, hands-on rapid prototyping and testing program. Unites users and industry to accelerate interface development and validation, and the delivery of interoperability to the market Rapid Interface Development Standards Program – Consensus standards process similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA etc.). Standards Setting Compliance Testing and Certification Program – allows organizations that implement an OGC standard to test their implementations with the mandatory elements of that standard Testing & Certification Communications and Outreach Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC standards, business development, communications programs Market Adoption

Interoperability innovation laboratory Unique to OGC!

Testbed 12 Thread Overview

OGC Testbed 13 late 2016

Effectiveness of Prototyping on Standards OGC Standards Implementations of OGC 1/3 2/3 14 standards 28 standards 42 standards 1/3 2/3 5292/521 products 1391/263 products 6653/784 products Implement/Compliant Standards initiated in Interoperability Program achieve greater implementation Initiated in the Interoperability Program Source: “Innovation in OGC: The Interoperability Program,“ Percivall G.,T. Idol, N. Alameh, J. Harrison; ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2015, 4(4), 2362-2378; doi:10.3390/ijgi4042362

Questions? Scott Simmons Executive Director, Standards Program Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ssimmons@opengeospatial.org tel +1 970 682 1922