1. Setting the Stage; Current and Future Opportunities
Ottawa, May 4th, 2018
Trevor Taylor, Director, Member Services. OGC
Copyright © 2018 Open Geospatial Consortium

2. Opportunities The Canada Forum
Member benefits, OGC meetings, Working Groups
Disaster Concept Development Study , Follow on Pilots
Testbed 15
Additional Pilots - Ideas
MSC data and products are geospatial
Public warnings and public forecasts
Numerical weather prediction models
Weather observations
Satellite imagery
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3. What is an OGC Forum ?
Member led and managed, approved by the global OGC community
Open to non-members
Provides OGC infrastructure and staff support to support regional/country based activities
The goals and objectives of OGC's regional organizations vary based on regional/country based requirements
Examples;
Assist in capacity building in the region/country
Promote policies, cooperative business development initiatives and public/private partnerships that support the use of OGC standards.
Coordinate participation in the OGC,
Seek to promote OGC membership,
MSC data and products are geospatial
Public warnings and public forecasts
Numerical weather prediction models
Weather observations
Satellite imagery
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4. OGC Provided Resources
Approved, April 18th
Public Wiki
Plus OGC Staff Support of Forum Activities
OGC Portal Project
Sign up for the Forum Mailing list!

5. Forums Asia Australia and New Zealand Canada Europe France
Iberian and Latin-American
India
Korea
Middle East and North Africa
Nordic
North American
UK & Ireland
WMO
The WMO Information System (WIS) is WMO’s modern strategy in managing and moving weather, water and climate information
Single global infrastructure for WMO data management functions
atop WMO Global Telecommunication System (GTS)
Integrated approach:
Collection and dissemination
Discovery, access and retrieval
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WMO:
WIS background: winners-wmo-information-system-comes-of-age

6. Example Activities – European Forum

7. Example Activities – ANZ Forum

8. Example Activities – China Forum
Next Meeting, September 2018

9. The Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards
Purpose
Collaboration : All stakeholders - people/expertise, standards, technologies, operational policies, and governance with a focus on standards .
Issues: Refine a set of priority issues that will guide innovative development in Canada through collective action.
Awareness: Increase awareness of the benefits of using geospatial standards across all sectors, especially new and emerging sectors and markets
Value Chains: Define value chains in various thematic domains (e.g. Survey and Mapping, Environmental Monitoring, Agriculture, Maritime, Energy and Utilities) and explore means of better connecting multiple communities of practice to reduce duplications, increase efficiency and improve the return on investment,
Capacity : Increase Canadian geomatics expertise and contribute to Canada’s future geospatial capacities
Remote Communities: Empower Canadian remote communities through online collaborations.
Next Steps

10. The Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards
Ideas for work items (This is the next step!)
Outreach to raise awareness of the benefits of CGDI and Standards - i Initially proposed activities include ( e.g. webinar series, Innovation day at a non- traditional event )
Encourage innovation in capacity building and end-user engagement.
Clarify priority Canadian issues and related business cases
Provide expert input to IM/IT/Geospatial capacity building investments
…...more ?
The OGC Canada Summit, June, 2017

11. Participation Methods
Access the content rich members’ only portal - unlimited accounts for full time NRCan staff members (reminder - OGC membership is by Department, i.e. ECCC and NEB have their own)
Attend an OGC meeting - ( NRCan receives 16 free registrations per year, non-member guests welcome ) - Meetings in 2018
Orleans, France,March, 2018
Fort Collins, Co, USA,June 4th - 8th
Stuttgart, Germany, September
Charlotte, VA, USA, December,
Join ( via lists) a Domain (open to all) working group and add value to the discussion
Contribute to an Innovation Project
Explore Certification options for procurement language
Access information via Wikis, GitHub (private and public)
Connect to OGC’s professional social media channels ( e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter)
Sponsor/Host and OGC meeting
MSC data and products are geospatial
Public warnings and public forecasts
Numerical weather prediction models
Weather observations
Satellite imagery
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12. OGC Domain Focus Areas http://www. opengeospatial
3D Information Mgt (3DIM)
Agriculture
Architecture
Big Data
Catalog
Coordinate Reference Systems
Coverages
Data Preservation
Data Quality
Defence & Intelligence
Earth Systems Science
Emergency & Disaster Mgt
Energy & Utilities
Geography Markup Language
Geosemantics
Health
Hydrology
Land and Infrastructure
Land Administration
Law Enforcement / Public Safety
Marine
Metadata
Meteorology and Oceans
Mobile Location Services
Point Cloud
Security
Sensor Web Enablement
Smart Cities
Temporal
University
Unmanned Systems (UxS)
Web Feature Service
Workflow

13. OGC Standards Working Groups http://www. opengeospatial
SensorThings SWG (SensorThings) Simple Features SWG (SF SWG) Styled Layer Descriptor and Symbology Encoding 1.2 SWG (SLDSE 1.2 SWG) Temporal WKT for Calendars SWG (TemporalWKT) WaterML 2.0 SWG (WaterML2.0SWG) Web Coverage Service (WCS) SWG (WCS.SWG) Web Mapping Service 1.4 SWG (WMS 1.4 SWG) Web Processing Service 2.0 SWG (WPS 2.0 SWG) WFS Gazetteer Profile 1.0 SWG (WFSgaz1.0 SWG) WFS/FES SWG (WFS/FES SWG)
Groundwater SWG (GroundwaterSWG) HDF SWG (HDF SWG) Hydrologic Features SWG (HydroFeat SWG) I15 (Cataloging of ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of ebRIM Profile of CS-W 1.0 SWG (I15 SWG) IndoorGML SWG (IndoorGML SWG) KML 2.3 SWG (KML SWG) Land Infrastructure SWG (LandInfraSWG) Moving Features SWG (MovFeat SWG) NetCDF SWG (NetCDFSWG) O&M 2.0 SWG (OM 2.0 SWG) OLS 1.3 SWG (OLS 1.3 SWG) OWS Common - Security SWG (ComSecuritySWG) OWS Common 1.2 SWG (OWSCommon1.2SWG) OWS Context SWG (OWScontextSWG) PipelineML SWG (PipeML SWG) Points of Interest SWG (PoI SWG) PubSub SWG (PubSub SWG) )
3D Portrayal (3DP SWG) Augmented Reality ML (ARML 2.0 SWG) Catalogue Services 3.0 SWG (Cat 3.0 SWG) CDB SWG ( CDB SWG) CityGML SWG (CityGML SWG) Common Object Model Container SWG (COMC SWG) Coordinate Reference (CRS SWG) CRS Well Known Text SWG (CRS WKT SWG)) Discrete Global Grid Systems SWG (DGGS SWG) ebRIM AP of CSW SWG (ebRIM AP of CSW) ebXML RegRep SWG (ebXMLRegRepSWG) EO Product Metadata and OpenSearch SWG (EO PMOS SWG) GeoAPI SWG (GeoAPI SWG) GeoPackage SWG (GeoPackage SWG) GeoSciML SWG (GeoSciML SWG)) Geospatial User Feedback SWG (GUFswg) GeoSynchronization 1.0 SWG (Geosync SWG) GeoTIFF SWG (GeoTIFF SWG) GeoXACML SWG (GeoXACML SWG) GML 3.3 SWG (GML 3.3 SWG) GMLJP2 SWG (GMLJP2-SWG)

14. Disaster Concept Development and Pilots http://www. opengeospatial
Objectives
Engage different stakeholder in disasters ( Executive, Operational and Technical) to gather and share information on the current state for using geospatial data and services during natural disasters
Communicate activities occurring at OGC and other key organizations to the audience
Understand what data, applications, tools and services are available and what is needed
Determine and how discoverable, accessible and usable are the existing services
Understand interoperability challenges and integration opportunities
Identify gaps in data, applications, tools and service
Follow on Pilots planned
Request for Information

15. Testbed 15 Call for Sponsors Announced May 1
OGC Testbed 15
Testbed 15 Call for Sponsors Announced May 1
In Ideas/Requirements gathering phase;
OGC Testbed on-going - open for Observers from Canadian OGC members

16. Other Innovation Pilot Ideas ?
Example Ideas
AI/Iot ?
“Cloud of Clouds” ?
Energy , Smart Cities, Resilience ?
Distributed Ledgers ( e.g. Proof of Location, Land Admin) ?
Disaster Reduction focus ?
Climate Change ( e.g. Arctic, Maritime, Oceans, Groundwater) ?
Increased Cross Boundary collaboration (e.g. ESA, Ordnance Survey, USGS….) ?
Winter NASA , Source:
OGC Calls for Sponsors for Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot - announced April 30

17. Additional resources
The Guide to OGC;
Membership Levels, Benefits and Pricing;
Current List of OGC Members;
The Standards Program and List of OGC Standards;
List of Domain Working Groups;
List of Standards Working Groups;
The Innovation Program ;
Active Innovation Program initiatives ;
Innovation Program Engineering Reports ;
The Compliance and Certification Program;
Registered Compliance and Certified Implementations :
Communications and Outreach:
OGC Events Listings:
Press Releases;
Blogs;
White Papers, Guides, Data and other Resources :