1. Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. OGC Sensor Web Enablement: Overview and High Level Architecture George Percivall Chief Architect, OGC percivall@myogc.org (301) 560-6439

2. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved.

3. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. OGC Sensor Web Standards - Goals Quickly discover sensors (secure or public) that can meet my needs – and learn about what they can do (location, observables, quality, ability to task) Obtain sensor descriptions in a standard encoding that is understandable by the user and by software Readily access sensor observations in a common manner, and in a form specific to my needs Task sensors, when possible, to meet my specific needs Request and receive alerts / notification when a sensor measures a particular phenomenon, or completes a requested task

4. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Geospatial Interoperability From sensors to decision support services SWEGPWGeoDSS OGC Web Services SWE=Sensor Web Enablement GPW=Geo-Processing Workflow GeoDSS=Geospatial Decision Support Services MeasurementsObservationsFeaturesRecommendations

5. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Open Web Services (OWS) Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Web Map Service (WMS) Web Feature Service (WFS) Web Coverage Service (WCS) Catalogue (OGC ) Geography Markup Language (GML) Web Map Context (WMC) OGC KML Others… Just as http:// is the dial tone of the World Wide Web, and html / xml are the standard encodings, the spatial web is enabled by OGC standards: Relevant to geospatial information applications: Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Weather, Climate, Homeland Security, Defense & Intelligence, Oceans Science, others

6. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Specifications Information Models and Schema –Sensor Model Language (SensorML) –Observations and Measurements (O&M) –TransducerML Web Services –Sensor Observation Service (SOS) –Sensor Alert Service (SAS) –Sensor Planning Service (SPS) –Web Notification Service WNS) –Sensor Registries

7. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically 7 SWE and Geoprocessing Workflow SOS Mesh Network SOS ! SAS SPS SOS Observatory SOS Mission Control Center Feature Access & Processing Node WFS WCSCSW WPS CSW Register Measurement Types SAS CSW SOS

8. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. SWE Languages and Encodings GML Observations Application Schema TransducerML Observations & Measurements (O&M) Information Model for Observations and Sensing Sensor & Processing Description Language Multiplexed, Real Time Streaming Protocol SWE Common Data Structure And Encodings SensorML

9. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically 9 What is the OGC? Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) –Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization –Founded in 1994, Incorporated in US, UK, Australia –358 members from industry, government, research and university OGC Mission To lead in the development, promotion and harmonization of open spatial standards …

10. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically 10 OGC’s Approach for Advancing Interoperability Interoperability Program (IP ) - a global, innovative, hands-on rapid prototyping and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and validation, and bring interoperability to the market Specification Development Program –Consensus standards process similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA etc.). Outreach and Community Adoption Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC specifications, business development, communications programs

11. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. 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 –Object Management Group (OMG) –Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) –Open Grid Forum (OGF) –Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization –International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) –Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG) –IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society –IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web)

12. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Copyright © 2007, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Market Implementation AED Graphics AG…AED SICAD…AutoDesk, Inc….Berit, a.s…Blue Marble Geographics…C-Plan AG…Cadcorp Ltd…Caris…Carmenta AB…CCGIS…Chesapeake Analytics Corp…Choibarti t.E…Christian Michelsen Research AS…Cogent Logic Corp…Compusult Ltd…con terra Applied Information Technologies Ltd…Cubewerx…DeLorme Publising, Inc…Demis bv…DM Solutions Group…eSpatial…ESRI…Finnish Geodetic Institute…Galdos Systems Inc…GDC… GE Energy…GEF-RIS AG…Genaware…GeoArctic Ltd…Geodan Holding BV…Geometry Party Ltd…Geoserver…Geotask AG…Global Energy Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd…GlobeXplorer…HDM…Hitachi Ltd…IBM Corp…InfoTech Enterprises Ltd…Innogistic Software Plc…INT, Inc…Interactive Instruments GmbH…Intergraph Corp…International Interfaces Inc…IONIC Software s.a…iter.dk…JAVA GIS Brazil…Laser-Scan…lat/lon…Luciad NV…M.O.S.S Computer Grafik Systeme GmbH…Mancke-Software…MapInfo Corp…MiraMon…MIT…Moxia Media Inc…Munisys Technologies Pty Ltc…NEC Geographic Products Inc…Naval Research Laboratory…Norkart…Novo Group…NTT Data Corp…ObjectFX Corp…Obvient Strategies…Offshore Systems Ltd…Oracle Corp…Pacific Geotech Systems Ltd…PCI Geomatics…Pixxures…Polexis, Inc…rasdaman…Refractions Research Inc…Safe Software…Shenzhen Careland Information Systems Co., Ltd…Skylab Mobilesystems…Snowflake Software…Social Change Online Pty. Ltd…SRI International…SRP GmbH…STAR INFORMATIC s.a…SuperGeo Techologies…SWBB GmbH…TatukGIS…Telcontar…The Carbon Project…University of Minnesota…US Federal Geographic Data Committee…others Compliance testing and certification programCompliance Several hundred commercial and open source products implement OpenGIS Specifications (OGC Registered Products List) (OGC Registered Products List) OGC open consensus standards are freely available

13. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically OGC and Crisis Response and Management US –OASIS EM TC –NENA & Next Gen 9-1-1 International –IETF GeoPRIV –W3C EEIC –GEOSS European –INSPIRE –GMES –ORCHESTRA –SANY –RISE Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved.

14. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 14 Integration Of Observations From A Variety Of Sensors We desire the ability to discover and integrate observations from any sensor that meets our needs

15. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 15 Public Health: Disease Spread with Flooding Tracking Leptospirosis during flooding, Mumbai August 2005 Doctor with PDA accesses and updates disease instances using OGC Web Services Developed by Jeremy Morley, University College London GEOSS Demo at ISPRS Commission IV, India

16. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Open Standards for Urban Operations part of OGC Web Services Phase 4 (OWS-4) Testbed In response to a radiation event, Identify and deploy a temporary hospital.

17. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2006, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 17 www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos/ows4

18. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically OWS-4 SWE and EM Response Application Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved.

19. Helping the World to Communicate Geographically OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE): Overview and And High Level Architecture Thanks to all the authors: –Mike Botts1, George Percivall2, Carl Reed2, John Davidson3 and Sam A. Bacharach2 –1-University of Alabama in Huntsville; 2-Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.; 3-Image Matters LLC For greater technical and architecture details, please download and read the OGC SWE Architecture Discussion Paper titled “The OGC Sensor Web Enablement Architecture” (OGC document 06-021r1). –http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved.