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OGC Technology Forecasting George Percviall OGC CTO, Chief Engineer
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2. OGC Tech Trends and Roadmapping Process
Identification of
Technology Trends
Breadth
Trends Mindmap
Technology Roadmaps
Assessment
Characterize and Prioritize Trends
Take Action
e.g. planning Testbeds
Focus
Member Consultation
Standards
Program
Communications
& Outreach
Innovation
e.g. Future Directions
e.g. NDA Tailored forecasts/discussion
e.g. Location Powers
The OGC process at t high level is straight forward – we work with our members, our liaison and partner organizations, and experts form the broader technology community to identify potential technology trends. We then engage in a process to characterize and prioritize these trends with respect to what OGC can do to support more efficient deployment of these trends. Finally we work to identify specific initiatives and priorities to insert activities in our process to support development of standards and best practices / interoperability arrangements and efficiencies to allow trends to be rapidly mobilized as they become market realities.
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3. OGC Tech Trends Mindmap
OGC maintains our Technology Trends and roadmapping on a GitHub site that is publicly accessible. Just visit the URL noted here, or search for “OGC Technology Trends” to access the GitHub repository for our work. Please also offer your recommendations on trends of importance - this process benefits greatly from broad community input.
Publicly Available at:
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4. Identifying “Ripe Trends”
Criteria 1: Horizon
Now: current activity in OGC program that is leading to mature product (TRL 6+)
Next: Planned for next testbed or a SWG to happen in the next year.
After Next: Future
Criteria 2: Impact
Sustaining innovation
comes from listening to the needs of customers in the existing market and creating products that satisfy their predicted needs for the future.
Disruptive innovation
Disruptive innovation creates new markets separate to the mainstream; markets that are unknowable at the time of the technologies conception.
Disruptive
Ripe – High
Near Ripe – Medium
Sustaining
Track – Low
Next
After Next
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5. OGC Geospatial Tech Trends Priorities
Publicly Available at:
Disruptive
Ripe – High
Near Ripe – Medium
Sustaining
Track – Low
Next
After Next
Machine Learning
Blockchain
Quantum Computing
GEO Platform Scale
Edge Computing
HD Maps for
Autonomous
UAV / UAS
Immersive Geo: xR
Web of Data
Mod, Sim, Predict
Micro-geography
Digital Twin
5G Cellular
Indoor
In addition to roadmapping Smart Cities and Big Data trends the following trends are in the process of being prioritized for assessment and roadmapping, as these represent sever of the “Next” technology trends. .
Workflow/Provenance
= Highest Priority (MER )
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BigKnowledge AI Knowledge Explorer (planned expansion to OGC Tech Forecasting)
BigKnowledge LLC
Demo and White Paper
Staff evaluation ongoing
BoKMap viz of network 
trend analysis
novelty detection
topical density
Knowledge Sources ingest
journals, magazines, job portals, press releases, patent filings
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7. OGC Standards as Query in Data Science & Analytics Analyst Input: List of 61 Standards at Output: Top-100 Tech Articles, Ranked by Date

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Tech Trends Notes
Previously Developed
Smart Cities
Geospatial Big Data
Edge and Fog Computing
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9. “Tech Trend Notes” Candidates
Geo Decision Science
Mod/Sim and Prediction
Increasing data sources and volumes
Geospatial coverages and analytics
Semantics and linked data
Cloud computing
Machine learning
Convergence of Mod/SIM and Predictive Modeling
Automated Model creation
Consumer HW/SW
Integrated models spatial & temporal scale matching
Convergence of simulation & data-driven computation
Exa-scale modeling
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10. Mod/Sim/Predict Tech Note - topics
Convergence of:
Modeling and Simulation
Predictive Earth System Models
Built Environment Modeling
Gaming
Value of Mod/Sim/Predict
Geospatial Intelligence
Sustainable Development
Smart Cities
Resource Management
Entertainment and Gaming
Computing Tech and Platforms
Cloud computing
Big Data software
Programming and scripting languages
Visualization
OGC Standards
CDB
OpenMI
WPS and Workflow
i3S and 3DTiles
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12. OGC Technology Trends Publicly Available Tailored consultation
Tailored consultation
NDA Tailored forecasts/discussion for your organization
Call for Sponsors
To support expansion of Tech Forecasting with BigKnowledge AI
Benefits include consultation and recognition
Contact George Percivall,
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13. Geospatial in Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing An OGC White Paper
Edge and Fog computing extend the ubiquity of computing beyond the Cloud
Existing Geospatial standards are relevant to Edge/Fog
SWE including SensorThings for IoT applications
Geospatial Fusion using WPS 
Plan for extending geospatial interoperability across the Edge-Fog-Cloud continuum:
Address proliferation of sensors and platforms
Extend geospatial Feature detection and tracking
Edge/Fog commodity Machine learning for geospatial computing
Linked Geodata across the Edge-Fog-Cloud continuum
Autonomy for tasking in Edge-Fog using geo
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14. Edge-Fog-Cloud (from draft OGC White Paper - 18-004)
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15. Call for Comment on trends
GitHub repo set up to elicit comments on trends
Each trends has an “issue” associated with the trend
Commenting on trend issue is open to anyone.
Revising Trends
Comments/issues will be reviewed as part of the quarterly update
Please post your comments about the issues
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