A Vision for an Exchangeable UxS Mission Plan Scott Simmons Executive Director, Standards Program Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium
Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium Why OGC? Good balance of Government, Research, and Industry membership “Making Location Count:” all missions are tied to location Open-minded enough to realize that not everything needs to be invented in the OGC, so let’s leverage the best ideas in the domains Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium
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Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium Standards must… Enable business Offer value Preserve the Secret Sauce Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium
What needs to be considered Modality of operation (fly, swim, or drive) Single unit or swarm Starting point Ending point Mission extent (point, line/curve, area) Mission type (observe, collect, engage, etc.) Operational constraints (speed, altitude range, water depth range, weight or size constraints) Mission and Sensor-specific parameters (specific also to the modality of operation) Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium
Build big and don’t go home Encapsulate the major parameters for ALL types of unpersoned/uninhabited systems into a foundational standard Profile that standard for each mode of operation Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium
Components and references in a standard Geometry WKT Simple Features GML KML GeoJSON CSV Coordinate Reference Systems Support EPSG Mandatory “WGS 84” and “Web Mercator” to accommodate hobbyist hardware? Modality/Mobility Environment (fly, swim, drive) Remote-control vs. autonomous Full movement control vs. environmental control (e.g., balloons and free-floating buoys) Sensors Active vs. Passive vs. none SWE SensorThings PUCK Other standards? Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium
Preserve the secret sauce Example for aerial photography: allow the operations software to make the following decisions Weather: wind vs. fixed- or rotary-wing device; wind vs. flight pattern Sensor characteristics: flight altitude and speed Stereoscopic collect: overlap and sidelap Power: number of flights to cover area Enable exchange of enough information to always allow the operations software to execute the mission, but not so much information as to inhibit the competitive advantage any operations software might claim Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium