1. ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Overcoming The Limited Capacity Of Your Data Management System And Make Your Information More Easily Accessible And Usable Sam A. Bacharach Executive Director, Outreach Program April 29, 2008 Sbacharach@opengeospatial.org http://www.opengeospatial.org

2. OGC ® GeoInt is Moving: From Static maps to ‘live’ or at least current data From need to know, to need to share, to responsibility to share To time sensitive, fused, multiple classification / access, specific data From risk avoidance to risk management Stovepipes to Service Oriented Architectures © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Helping the World Communicate Geographically 2

3. OGC ® The Choices Connected or DisconnectedYES Proprietary or OpenOpen Central or DistributedYES Paper or DigitalYES Secure or UnsecureSecure Unilateral or CoalitionCoalition Observe, Orient, Decide, Act -- Defence loop Observe, Overreact, Decimate, Apologize – USA by PT Observe, Obfuscate, Dither, Alibi – UK by SB © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Helping the World Communicate Geographically 3

4. OGC ® How Are We Going to Get There? Organize our work by using the best of what has been proven to work elsewhere. We cannot ‘organize’ without standardizing And one of the best tools in the organizer tool box is a software suite based on open, industry standards 4

5. OGC ® Standards are A Form of Organization Standards capture the essence of engineering Standards simplify work by codifying the best of what has worked elsewhere Standards-based software is great way to build your own system 5 © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

6. OGC ® 6 Why standards? Some Quotes “Standardization in the GeoWeb is going to be really important if you want to stimulate innovation,” Vinton Cerf, co-designer of TCP/IP and the “Father of the Internet” “We want to have standards applied to all important interfaces... Being vendor-independent, vendor- neutral helps us protect our equity.” Dawn Meyerriecks, DISA, in an interview with the OpenGroup "People want the government to be transparent, so why shouldn't the technology be?" Jim Willis, director of E-government at the Rhode Island Secretary of State office. © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

7. OGC ® Copyright 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 7 Why are open Standards and Interoperability Important? Without Standards and Interoperability, there would be no: –INTERNET or WEB! –CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY! –TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS! –ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION! These industries offer huge benefits and enjoy widespread benefits as a result of using standards that enable interoperability – Should defence be any different?

8. OGC ® 8 What is the OGC and why use it? The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a not-for- profit international voluntary consensus standards organization leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. The OGC facilitates a consensus process in which government, private industry, and academia collaborate to create open and extensible software application programming interfaces for geospatial and other mainstream information technologies. Our members have spent 14 years doing the organizing work for you to leverage today.

9. OGC ® 9 The OGC Vision A world in which all people and institutions benefit from spatial information resources and supporting technology services.

10. OGC ® © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 10 The Growth of OGC Some 357 members worldwide – 31 countries & 6 continents –149 European members - 19 countries –40+ Asia-Pacific members – – 4 Middle East members – Saudi Arabia (1) Twenty five (up from 18 last year) approved, publicly available Implementation Specifications (+ several updates posted) Broad participation with other industry and international standards organizations 30+ candidate Implementation Specifications in work OGC Reference Model defines interoperable geo architecture Rapidly growing list of vendor implementations –http://www.opengeospatial.org/resources/?page=productshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/resources/?page=products

11. OGC ® © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 11 Where does OGC fit in the ‘standards’ world? IETF / W3C Infrastructure: WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, XML ISO – CEN Nations DGIWG Domains: Object / Abstract Models, Content, Vocabulary OGC Software Interfaces: Instantiate Domain and Dejure into Infrastructure De Facto De Jure Domain Infrastructure User Content + Via OGC Interfaces + IT Infrastructure =

12. OGC ® = Equals = = Equals = Easier integration leading to lower costs Easier sharing with other departments, businesses, countries leading to faster communication Easier data sharing leading to more data available Ability to spend less of your money reinventing the wheel Ability to spend more of your money doing your job © 2005 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 12

13. OGC ® Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. OGC-based Policy Positions OGC-based Policy Positions UK Ordnance Survey using GML format to distribute its MasterMap product Canada Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Implements OGC Web Service Specifications CIA and DHS have adopted OGC as part of their Geospatial Enterprise Architectures. Australian SDI recognizes OGC standards, numerous enterprise implementations across the nation European Union INSPIRE technical architecture built around OGC specifications Open Location Services (mobile wireless) being built into consumer offerings from major location services vendors

14. OGC ® Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Still Other OGC Policy Positions National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency NATO C3 Federal Enterprise Architecture Group on Earth Observations DISR

15. OGC ® © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 15 OGC Alliance Partnerships A Critical Resource for Advancing Standards –World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) –Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) –COMCARE –Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) –Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) –Group on Earth Observations –International Organization for Standards (ISO) Technical Committee 211 –OASIS (ACXML) –Object Management Group (OMG) –Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) –Open Grid Forum (OGF) –Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization –International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) –IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society –IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) –Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG)

16. OGC ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 16 What does the OGC as an entity provide? An agreed upon consensus process for defining, testing, documenting, and approving interface specifications Staff knowledge, expertise and support to work with the members to facilitate the consensus process the culminates in approved and adopted specifications. A process framework to encourage effectiveness and efficiency in advancing OGC member goals. A consensus-based forum for conflict resolution that meets US and other anti-trust guidelines A comprehensive Communications infrastructure.

17. OGC ® Copyright 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 17 What do we mean by “Open” Freely and publicly available Non discriminatory No license fees Vendor neutral Data neutral Agreed to by a formal, member based consensus process!

18. OGC ® Approved OGC Standards 1.Coordinate TransformationCoordinate Transformation 2.Geographic ObjectsGeographic Objects 3.Grid Coverage ServiceGrid Coverage Service 4.Location Services (OpenLS)Location Services (OpenLS) © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 18

19. OGC ® Approved OGC Web Service (OWS) Standards 1.Catalogue ServiceCatalogue Service 2.Geography Markup LanguageGeography Markup Language 3.GML in JPEG 2000GML in JPEG 2000 4.Simple Feature Access 1Simple Feature Access 1 5.Simple Feature Access 2Simple Feature Access 2 6.Styled Layer DescriptorStyled Layer Descriptor 7.Filter EncodingFilter Encoding 8.Symbology EncodingSymbology Encoding 9.Web Coverage ServiceWeb Coverage Service 10.Web Feature ServiceWeb Feature Service 11.Web Map ContextWeb Map Context 12.Web Map ServiceWeb Map Service 13.Web Processing ServiceWeb Processing Service 14.Web Service CommonWeb Service Common 15.KML v 2.2KML v 2.2 © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.19

20. OGC ® Copyright 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)20 Instead of geospatial systems integrated within an organization… … systems are networked across and between organizations with interoperable capability Services, Components and Portals based on standards Consensus-based Standard Architecture and Framework Tapping the undervalued spatial data asset….requires change in the way systems are built...

21. ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Sensors and Sensor Webs

22. OGC ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 22 Sensors and Sensor Webs Sensor webs are networks of environmental monitors, traffic monitors, industrial sensors, aerial and satellite- borne imaging devices, webcams, health monitors, and stored sensor data. Classic geospatial data remains the foundation for Decision Support Systems and data from sensors adds currency to that picture Sensors and sensor webs provide: –Real time or near real time observations –Data from simple in situ sensors of single phenomena (temperature or wind speed) to complex earth orbiting satellite imagery sensing many different slices of the electromagnetic spectrum

23. OGC ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 23 Sensor Web: Why and How? Goal: Enable all types of Web and/or Internet-accessible sensors, instruments, and imaging devices to be accessible and, where applicable, controllable via the Web. Vision: Define and approve the standards foundation for "plug-and-play" Web-based sensor networks. –Sensor location is usually a critical parameter for sensors Cooperate with other standards bodies – IEEE 1451 "smart transducer" family of standards – OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), Web Services Notification (WS-N) and Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) specifications.

24. OGC ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 24 Sensor Web Enablement Three Encoding Specifications Four Service Specifications Related OGC standards and work –GeoXACML (geo extensions to OASIS standard) –GeoRights Management (embed use and access restriictions in data –Proven PKI integration

25. OGC ® Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)25 A Sensor Network

26. OGC ® Approved OGC Sensor Standards 1.Observations and Measurements (O&M) (E)Observations and Measurements (O&M) 2.Sensor Model Language (SensorML) (E)Sensor Model Language (SensorML) 3.Sensor Planning Service (SPS)Sensor Planning Service (SPS) 4.Transducer Markup Language (TML) (E)Transducer Markup Language (TML) 5.Sensor Observation Service (SOS)Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 6.Sensor Alert Service (SAS) (Best Practice Document)Sensor Alert Service (SAS) 7.Web Notification Service (WNS) (Best Practice Document)Web Notification Service (WNS) Best Practice Document is one step below an approved OGC Standard © 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Helping the World Communicate Geographically 26

27. OGC ® Copyright 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) 27 Summary Think Big: Everywhere is Somewhere Start Small: Two major standards in our first five years – SFA and WMS Scale Fast: 24 more in the next seven Deliver Capability: Rapidly growing world wide adoption of OGC standards We need your help to fill all of the holes Join tomorrow !