ISO TC 211 Standard Development Activities Related to Earth Observations A Liaison Report from ISO TC211 to CEOS WGISS Dr. Liping Di ISO/TC 211 representative to CEOS WGISS Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) George Mason University ldi@gmu.edu

Contents ISO TC 211 organization; ISO TC 211 Metadata standards and projects ISO TC 211 Imagery and gridded data standards and projects.

ISO TC 211 ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization. ISO Technical Committee 211 (TC 211) is responsible for setting international standards on geographic information/ geometics. ISO TC 211 has set up liaison relationship with many related external organizations, including CEOS WGISS

Scope of ISO TC 211 Standardization in the field of digital geographic information. TC 211 aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth. These standards may specify, for geographic information, methods, tools and services for data management (including definition and description), acquiring, processing, analyzing, accessing, presenting and transferring such data in digital/electronic form between different users, systems and locations. The work of TC 211 shall link to appropriate standards for information technology and data where possible, and provide a framework for the development of sector-specific applications using geographic data.

ISO TC 211 Organization TC 211 consists of Chairman and secretariat Chairman: Olaf Østensen Statens kartverk Norwegian Mapping Authority Secretariat:Bjørnhild Sæterøy Norsk Teknologisenter Norwegian Technology Centre (NTS) 36 Participating member countries(P-members) 30 Observing member contries (O-members) 17 Internal and 31 external liaisons 6 Working groups 2 Advisory groups 5 maintenance groups Control body for the ISO geodetic registry network ISO/TC 211 – OGC co-ordination group (TOCG) ISO/TC 204 – TC 211 task force ISO/TC 211 - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 task force Ad hoc group on GIS-BIM (Building Information Modeling)

Current Working Groups in ISO TC 211 Working group 1 Framework and reference model Working group 4 Geospatial services Working group 6 Imagery Working group 7 Information communities Working group 9 Information management Working group 10 Ubiquitous public access

ISO Metadata Standards (1) ISO 19115:2003- geographic information-metadata Published in 2003 The base standard for geospatial metadata Developed from FGDC metadata standard ISO 19115-2:2009 - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data Published in 2009 Provided Additional metadata element and structure for remote sensing imagery and derived grid products Based on FGDC remote sensing metadata standard

ISO Metadata Standards (2) ISO 19115-1:2014 – Geographic Information-Metadata-Part 1: Fundamentals Published in 2014 A revision of ISO 19115:2003, much improvement over 2003 version in many areas, especially in the description of contents in multi-dimensional data Data quality part has been moved to ISO 19157 A replacement of ISO 19115:2003 No direct back compatibility with ISO 19115:2003 but can be mapped from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115-1:2014

ISO metadata standards (3) ISO 19157:2013 – Geographic Information – Data Quality Combined all data quality related metadata standards in ISO TC 211 ISO 19113 --quality principles ISO 19114 –quality evaluation procedures ISO 19138 –data quality measures The quality description part of ISO 19115 The content includes defines components for describing data quality; specifies components and content structure of a register for data quality measures; describes general procedures for evaluating the quality of geographic data; establishes principles for reporting data quality.

XML Schema Standards for ISO Metadata ISO/TS 19139:2007 XML schema for ISO 19115:2003 ISO/TS 19139-1:2012 XML schema for ISO 19115-2:2009

On-going and near future work on metadata ISO/TS 19115-3 (on going) XML schema for ISO 19115:2014 ISO/TS 19157-2 (near future project) XML schema for ISO 19157:2013 To be started in this year Revision of ISO 19115-2 (near future project) To be started in next year CEOS WGISS can play a significant role on the revision.

Remote Sensing Imagery Standards Published standards/specifications ISO 19101-2:2008 Geographic information - Reference model - Part 2: Imagery ISO/TS 19129:2009 Geographic information - Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework ISO/TS 19130:2010 Geographic information - Imagery sensor models for geopositioning ISO/TS 19130-2:2014 Geographic information -- Imagery sensor models for geopositioning -- Part 2: SAR, InSAR, Lidar and sonar

On-going and near future imagery standard projects ISO 19159-1 Geographic information - Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors - Part 1: Optical sensors To be published as TS in 2014 ISO 19159-2 Geographic information - Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors -- Part 2: Lidar Project started in November 2013 ISO 19163 Geographic information - Content components and encoding rules for imagery and gridded data Near Future Remote Sensing Data Archiving Standard

ISO 19163 - Content components and encoding rules for imagery and gridded data Define a data content model for each kind of remote sensing data Define the rules for encoding the contents into a data file Provide example of encoding the contents into commonly used formats NetCDF GeoTIFF HDF HDF-EOS GMLCov JPG2000

Invitation CEOS members are important users of ISO standards The Inputs from CEOS are very important to ISO TC 211 standard development. CEOS members can submit comments and inputs to the ISO standard project through the CEOS WGISS liaisons to ISO TC 211 (Dr. Wyn Cudlip, Mr. Lorant Czaran), or Its national body to ISO TC 211 CEOS WGISS can propose and lead an ISO TC 211 standard project.