1. Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Overview for World Meteorological Organization (WMO) March 15, 2010 David Arctur, PhD Director, Interoperability Programs Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

2. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count © 2007, Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Institute, Inc. 2 Design by Committee… a dangerous business!

3. Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Introduction 3

4. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count What is the OGC? Not-for-profit, international standards development consortiumNot-for-profit, international standards development consortium 380+ industry, government, and university members380+ industry, government, and university members Specification Development Program (since 1994)Specification Development Program (since 1994) –Class A liaison with ISO/TC211 –28 Implementation Standards, with additional standards profiles, and best practice documents… –OGC Reference Model defines interoperable geo architecture 4 Mission To advance the development and market adoption of open standards for geospatial interoperability.Mission Interoperability Program (since 1999)Interoperability Program (since 1999) –A global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and bring interoperability to the market Outreach and Community Adoption Program (since 2002)Outreach and Community Adoption Program (since 2002) –Awareness raising, education and training, encourage take up of OpenGIS® specifications, business development

5. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Membership Growth © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 5

6. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Selected Membership Academia/Research: 100+ institutions worldwide Sensors: 3eTI, Smart Sensor Systems, IRIS Corp, Overwatch Systems… Government: JRC, EUSC, ESA; US DHS, EPA, Census, Geological Survey, Army Corps TEC, DISA, NGA, NASA; Oak Ridge National Labs; United Nations; Natural Resources Canada; Geosciences Australia; and others at the national, provincial, state and local levels. Geospatial/AEC/CAD: Analytical Graphics Inc., Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Blue Marble Geographics, Cadcorp, ESRI, e-spatial, Galdos, Intergraph, Ionic, Laser- Scan, MapInfo, NavisWorks, NAVTEQ, PCI Geomatics, others… Infrastructure: Oracle, Google, Shell Exploration… Integrators / Engineering: BAE Systems, Boeing, EADS Astrium, Lockheed Martin, GeoDecisions, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Mitre, Hansa Luftbild, Tetra Tech, Michael Baker, others… Telecom/LBS: Telecom. Systems, Tele Atlas N.V., SiRF 6

7. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Geospatial Interoperability and NCES Applicable Open Standards / Organizations International Organization for Standards (ISO) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) buildingSMART International / Alliance (bSi / bSa) IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) Web3D Consortium And others… 7

8. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Policy Positions Group on Earth Observations National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency US Federal Enterprise Architecture (Geospatial Profile) NATO C3 United Nations Strategic Plan 8

9. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count More OGC-based Policy Positions European Union INSPIRE technical architecture built around OGC specifications OGC is a Participating Organization of GEO and leads the task to create the GEOSS persistent network of publicly accessible services for demonstration and research. NGA, USGS, and NASA are Strategic Members (our highest level) USGS Framework Features served with WFS and WMS Canada Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Implements OGC Web Service Specifications UK Ordnance Survey using GML format to distribute its MasterMap product CIA and DHS have adopted OGC as part of their Geospatial Enterprise Architectures Compliance tests are now in place for a DGIWG profile of WMS 9

10. Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Standards 10

11. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Approved OpenGIS® Specifications Tightly coupled –Simple Feature Access – OLE, SQL, CORBA {ISO} –Grid Coverages Web Services  Web Map Service (WMS) {ISO}  Web Feature Service (WFS) {ISO}  Web Coverage Service (WCS)  Catalog Services for the Web (CS/W)  Coordinate Transformation XML Encodings  Geography Markup Language (GML) {ISO}  KML  Web Map Context Sensor Web Enablement –SensorML –TransducerML –Sensor Observation Service (SOS) –Sensor Planning Service (SPS) –Sensor Alert Service (SAS) Open Location Services (OpenLS) {ISO} 11 Available free of charge at http://opengeospatial.org/standards

12. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Geography Mark-up Language (GML) Application Schema Examples CityGML (http://www.citygml.org)http://www.citygml.org –Common information model for the representation of 3D urban objects. It defines the classes and relations for the most relevant topographic objects in cities and regional models with respect to their geometrical, topological, semantic and appearance properties. Included are generalization hierarchies between thematic classes, aggregations, relations between objects, and spatial properties. GeoSciML (http://www.opengis.net/GeoSciML/)http://www.opengis.net/GeoSciML/ –GeoSciML accommodates the goal of representing geoscience information associated with geologic maps and observations, as well as being extensible in the long-term to other geoscience data.GeoSciML –An approved standard in that community MarineXML ( https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/Marineweb/MarineXML) https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/Marineweb/MarineXML –Marine Data exchange based on ISO19136 (GML Feature Types). The alignment between ISO and OGC on ISO19136 makes GML the clear (only) choice for developing an XML- based framework for marine data exchange. AIXM/GML (http://www.aixm.aero)http://www.aixm.aero –The Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) Specification supports the data- centric environment. It supports aeronautical information collection, dissemination and transformation throughout the data chain 12

13. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Web Map Service (WMS) can get multiple maps 13 Multiple overlaid maps One GetMap request: Borders Elevation Cloud Cover Cities

14. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OWS Integrated Decision Support 14 Web Map Server Web Coverage Server Web Feature Server With OGC web services, an analyst or operator can dynamically access that data which is relevant to the task at hand, directly from the authoritative data steward, using a variety of tools.

15. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Sensor Web Enablement Sensors connected to and discoverable on the Web Sensors have position & generate observations Sensor descriptions available Services to task and access sensors Local, regional, national scalability Enabling the Enterprise 15 Webcam Environmental Monitor Industrial Process Monitor Stored Sensor Data Traffic Monitoring Satellite-borne Imaging Device Airborne Imaging Device Health Monitor Strain Gauge Temp Sensor Automobile As Sensor Probe

16. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Specifications Information Models and Schema –Sensor Model Language (SensorML) for In-situ and Remote Sensors - Core models and schema for observation processes: support for sensor components, georegistration, response models, post measurement processing –Observations and Measurements (O&M) – Core models and schema for observations –TransducerML – adds system integration and real-time streaming clusters of observations Web Services –Sensor Observation Service - Access Observations for a sensor or sensor constellation, and optionally, the associated sensor and platform data –Sensor Alert Service – Subscribe to alerts based upon sensor observations –Sensor Planning Service – Request collection feasibility and task sensor system for desired observations –Web Notification Service –Manage message dialogue between client and Web service(s) for long duration (asynchronous) processes –Sensor Registries – Discover sensors and sensor observations 16

17. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count To integrate sensors into the Geospatial Web, need a standards based framework 17 Copyright 2008, OGC

18. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count “Chaining” Web Services For Decision Support 18 … WCS (NASA Data Pool) WICS (Producer-C,Vendor-3) WCTS (Producer-B, Vendor-2) WFS (Producer-n, Vendor-x) Internet Web Servers OGC Interfaces Service chaining creates Value-added products Decision Support Client Demonstrated in 2004 as part of OGC Web Services Testbed 2 Assess Wildfire Activity

19. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count OGC Public References Adopted Standards: –http://www.opengeospatial.org/standardshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/standards OGC Reference Model: –http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ormhttp://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/orm OGC Web Services 6 Testbed Demonstration Videos –http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows6/index.htmlhttp://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows6/index.html Compliance Testing and Certification –http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliancehttp://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance List of Registered Products using OGC Standards: –http://www.opengeospatial.org/resourcehttp://www.opengeospatial.org/resource OGC Network – member-contributed OGC “encyclopedia” –http://www.ogcnetwork.nethttp://www.ogcnetwork.net OGC User – case studies of OGC implementations in the global community –http://www.opengeospatial.org, click on “Press Room”http://www.opengeospatial.org 19