1. Sharing Information to Make Better Decisions About our World
Trevor Taylor, Denise, McKenzie
The Open Geospatial Consortium
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2. The Open Geospatial Consortium
Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading open innovation for geospatial data
Founded in 1994
525 member organizations
100 innovation initiatives
48 Open Standards
Compliance Certification Tests
230 OGC certified products
Thousands of implementations
Enabling access to 100K+ datasets

3. Value of Participation
The OGC Mission
To advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability. Global forum for the collaboration of geospatial data / solution providers and users.
Value of Participation
Achieve technical agreement on interoperability challenges
Networking, partnership development
Insight into emerging technologies and markets
Discover solutions being advanced by others
Unique ability to share cost / resources in solving interoperability challenges
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4. Example Government Members
IGN (France) - BRGM (France) - City of Helsinki, Finland
DHS (US) - NASA (US) - NOAA (US) - NGA (US)
USGS (US) - USACE (US) - DSTL (UK) - DLR (Germany)
EU Satellite Center (Europe) - NR Canada - DIGO (Australia)
Norwegian Building Authority Ordnance Survey (UK)
Dept of Science and Technology (India) - National Remote Sensing Center (India)
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Korea) - Vienna, Austria
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority(UAE) - Singapore Land Authority
San Francisco City & County - Others…
Over 100 Universities, Research institutes, NGOs; e.g., TU Berlin, Fund for the City of New York, Association of Geospatial Industries (India)
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5. Example OGC Commercial Members
These organisations bring domain expertise, their approach to standards based on their end customer requirements and they also build system architectures and solutions using standards. Some of them have even brought widely accepted solutions, such as KML into the OGC standards process.
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6. Example OGC Alliance Partners Our work cannot be done in isolation
JTC 1/SC 24 Computer Graphics
JTC 1/SC 41 Internet of Things
JTC 1/WG 9 Big Data JTC 1/WG 11 Smart Cities
ISO/TC 204
The GSDI Association continues to perform its mission, evidenced in growth of SDI’s worldwide
UNGGIM is now further organizing member states to advance useful geospatial information management
Standards community is working to facilitate leveraging and rapid integration of industry advancements in information technology
GEO – with over 100 countries and an array of Participating Organizations, GEO pushes on to drive open access to and application of Earth Observation, with emphasis on in-situ integration with overhead EO as a key challenge area.
Our collective future success in addressing sustainable development and other increasingly complex social, environmental and economic challenges will be based on our ability to access, process and apply an increasingly complex array of information. Our success will also hinge on our collective ability to engage across government, academia, research, NGOs with much greater emphasis on inclusion of industry and the broader developer community, as they are leading the charge in information and technology transformation.

7. OGC’s Approach for Advancing Innovation
Rapid Prototyping
Testing, and Demonstration
Innovation
Program
Standards
Setting
Standards
Program
Compliance
Program
Testing &
Certification
Communication &
Outreach Program
Market
Adoption
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8. OGC Services Architecture http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards
Visualization / Decision Tools and Applications
GeoAPI
OpenLS
Data Models and Encodings
GML
LandInfra
NetCDF
GMLJP2
GeoSparql
SLD
KML
WMC
Moving
Features
CityGML
WaterML
GeoXACML FE SE
OpenGeoSMS
GeoPackage
CDB
Geospatially Enabled
Metadata
Discovery Services
CSW
OpenSearch Geo
ebRIM
Other Services
Workflow, Alerts
Other
Data
Processing Services
OpenMI
WPS
TJS
WCPS
WMS
WMTS
WFS
Simple
Features
Access
Access Services
Geospatial
Feature Data
Geospatial Browse/Maps
Geospatial Coverage Data
WCS
Sensor Web & IoT Enablement
SPS
SensorML
O&M
SOS
Sensor
Things
Acronym List:
Catalog Web Service (CSW) - Support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects.
Web Map Service (WMS) - XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information modeled according to the conceptual modeling framework including both the spatial and non-spatial properties of geographic features.
Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) - Serves digital maps using predefined image tiles and complements the existing Web Map Service providing flexibility in the client request enabling clients to obtain the precise final image required.
Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Provides access to detailed and rich sets of geospatial information in forms that are useful for client-side rendering, multi-valued coverages, and input into scientific models and other clients.
Web Coverage Service Transactional (WCS-T) - Enables clients to add, modify, and delete grid coverages that are available from a WCS server.
Web Feature Service (WFS) – Defines the interfaces for data access and manipulation operations on geographic features, feature information behind a map image.
Web Feature Service Transactional (WFS-T) - Enables clients to add, modify, and delete feature data that are available from a WFS server.
Sensor Planning Service (SPS) - Enables a client to determine collection feasibility for a desired set of collection requests for sensors and directly task those sensors.
Sensor Observation Service (SOS) - Interface for requesting, filtering, and retrieving observations and sensor system information.
Sensor Model Language (SML) - Enables users to access sensors; their location, their capabilities, and the data they acquire along with the ability to process the data through a standards-based, non-proprietary web interface.
Observation & Measurements (O&M) - Specifies the core model, framework, and encoding for measurements and observations.
Observation & Measurements XML (O&M XML) - XML schemas for observations, and for features involved in sampling when making observations.
Geo eXtended Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML) - An extension to the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Policy Language that supports the declaration and enforcement of access restrictions on geographic information.
Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) – Provides analysts control of the visual portrayal of the data with which they work.
Symbology Encoding (SE) - an XML language to encode user-defined styling information that can be applied to digital Feature and Coverage data.
Geography Markup Language (GML) - XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information modeled according to the conceptual modeling framework.
KeyHole Markup Language (KML) - XML language focused on geographic visualization and used to encode and transport representations of geographic data for display in web browser, including annotation of maps and images.
Filter Encoding (FE) - an XML encoding of the OGC Common Catalog Query Language (CQL) as a system neutral query representation.
Web Map Context (WMC) - XML schemas for observations, and for features involved in sampling when making observations.
Table Join Service (TJS) –Provides a mechanism to expose corporate tabular data, with geographic identifiers so that it can be discovered, accessed, and merged with spatial data to enable mapping or geospatial analysis.
Table Join Service Transactional (TJS-T) - Enables clients to add, modify, and delete tabular data available from a TJS server.
Web Processing Service (WPS) - WPS provides client access across a network to pre-programmed calculations and/or computation models that operate on spatially referenced data.
Geo Short Message Service (GeoSMS) - Facilitate communication of location content between different LBS (Location-Based Service) devices or applications by extending Short Messaging Service (SMS).
GeoSynchronization Service (GeoSynch) - Enables data collectors to submit new data or make modifications to existing data without directly affecting the data in the provider's data store(s) until validation has been applied.
Discover
Task
Access
Puck
Sensors
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9. Introduction
Continues to be a great a need to share data and Information
Geospatial information and associated technologies are key to achieving resilience for local to national government’s land management.
Accessing the right information, at the right time and in the right way is still an elusive goal for many of the world’s nations.
Helps to develop global best practices and define standards to enable the sharing of location data across multiple platforms and many domains including land management
Collaboration with over 40 alliance partners to help develop these important standards to ensure that the geospatial community’s standards work not only within our community but with the many and varied communities outside the traditional geospatial domain.
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10. Land Administration
Good progress towards better land management through the development of standards such as the Land Administration Domain Model, the Social Tenure Domain Model, Landinfra, CityGML, as well as our robust web services standards.
Built to serve Geospatial technologies
Requirement to better address new trends and technologies for integration into existing and new options
Need to ensure standards and technologies are appropriate and fit for purpose for regional variations
Harmonization of multiple global efforts on-going
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11. Example Related Initiatives, Standards, Models, Trends , Technologies (not exhaustive)
ISO ( LADM)
UN-Habitat /Global Land Tool Network : Social Tenure Domain Model
CityGML (domain extensions )
GML
LandXML -- OGC® Land and Infrastructure Conceptual Model Standard (LandInfra)
BIM/IFC/3D Cadastre
RDF/Linked Data
GeoJSON
Code List Management
IHO S121 Limits and Boundaries ( draft), Maine considerations
Technology ( fit for purpose)

12. Example Involved Organisations (Not Exhaustive and in no Particular Order)
OGC
ISO
World Bank
UN-GGIM
UN-GLTN
FIG
GEOSS
W3C
BuildSmart International
Universities ( Research)
Mapping, Statistical, Cadastral and Land Administration entities
Technology and service providers (all)
…others

13. Example Emerging Trends and Localized Characteristics
Continuing increase Space based High Resolution Data
The Rise of Mobile Data

14. Example Emerging Trends and Localized Characteristics
Bigdata Data and AI
IOT Predicated Install base

15. Internet speeds and bandwidth Unmanned and Remotely operating systems
Example Emerging Trends and Localized Characteristics
Internet speeds and bandwidth
Unmanned and Remotely operating systems

16. Example Emerging Trends and Localized Characteristics
Point Clouds/Cross Domain harmonisation
Distributed Ledgers and Location

17. Increased Collaboration
Updating and modernizing standards, encodings, and best practices, and harmonizing existing efforts is complex
Requires increased strong collaboration amongst all stakeholders
Supports moving closer to providing standards-based best practices which cross- cuts multiple UN Sustainable Develop Goals including but not limited to;
GOAL 1: No Poverty
GOAL 4: Quality Education
GOAL 5: Gender Equality
GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality
GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

18. A Call to Accelerate Action
Good progress amongst collaborators (Selected Examples):
OGC White paper on Land Administration
OGC Working Groups (LandInfra, CityGML etc)
LADM Workshops ( e.g. FIG ,next meeting , Zagreb, April)
ISO TC 211 LADM work
UN related activities
Existing Implementations ( LADM, STDM, LandInfra, LandXML…)
Many other global initiaves!
Call to Action:
Further Develop a pilot activity to help test how the various pieces, including implementations from technology providers, can help
Based on scenarios and use cases that mimic operational requirements, with a focus on emerging nations. ?
Require Sponsors

19. The Open Geospatial Consortium
Thank You!
Selected Resources:
OGC Land Admin Domain Working Group :
Draft Land Administration Paper (Publicly available) :
OGC Land Infrastructure Domain Working Group:
OGC Innovation Program:
OGC Membership information:
Trevor Taylor,
The Open Geospatial Consortium