OGC and GSDI: a Partnership in Advancing SDI Best Practices

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GSDI 11 Workshop 1.4 SDI Challenges

15 June 2009 Mark Reichardt President and CEO [email protected] +1 301 840-1361

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically Advancing A Global Spatial Data Infrastructure For Many Communities of Interest

Education & Research Sustainable Development

Utilities

Health

E -Government

Emergency Services

Energy Agriculture Water

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically GSDIGSDI MissionMission

Serve as a point of contact and effective voice for developing, implementing and advancing SDI concepts and applications, Foster SDIs that support sustainable social, economic and environmental systems integrated from local to global scales Promote the informed and responsible use of geographic information and spatial technologies for the benefit of society

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically TheThe OGCOGC MissionMission

To serve as a global forum for the collaboration of developers and users of geospatial content and services, and to advance the development of international standards for geospatial interoperability.

• A Voluntary Consensus Standards OGC Membership Distribution Organization, founded in 1994.

• Currently 386 members – Industry, Asia / Government, Academia Pacific

• 28 adopted standards N. America 164 • Hundreds of product Europe implementations in the market 169 • Broad user community Africa implementation worldwide Europe N America S America • Alliances with many other SDOs Asia Pacific Middle East

• A Voluntary Consensus Standards OGC Membership Distribution Organization, founded in 1994. • Currently 386 members – Industry,

Government, Academia Academic Commercial • 28 adopted standards

• Hundreds of product NFP implementations in the market Government

Commercial • Broad user community Government Not For Profit implementation worldwide Academic Research • Alliances with many other SDO’s

• Freely and publicly available • Non discriminatory • No license fees • Vendor neutral • Data neutral • Agreed to by a formal consensus process

• 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 Demo & Reports

• 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

Helping the World to Communicate © 2009 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Geographically 9 AApprovedpproved OGCOGC ImplementationImplementation StandardsStandards (Freely available at www.opengeospatial.org)

• Encodings • Catalogue Services – Geography Markup Language (GML) – Catalogue Service – Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) – Transducer Markup Language (TML) • Processing Services – Sensor Model Language (SensorML) – Open Location Services (OpenLS) – CityGML – Coordinate Transformation Service – Web Map Context (WMC) – Sensor Planning Service (SPS) – Observations & Measurements (O&M) – Web Processing Service (WPS) – Filter Encoding • Portrayal Services – KML – Web Map Service – Symbology Encoding – GML in JPEG 2000 • Data Services – GeoXACML – Grid Coverage Service – Simple Features (4) • Web Services Common – Web Coverage Service • And many more approved Best Practices, – Web Feature Service Profiles and Schema…

Just as http:// is the digital dial tone of the World Wide Web, and html / xml are the standard encodings, the spatial web is enabled by OGC standards, such as… Web Map Service (OGC & ISO) Style Layer Descriptor (OGC) Feature Model & GML (OGC & ISO) Web Feature Service (OGC) Web Coverage Service (OGC) Web Map Context (OGC) Catalogue (OGC ) Metadata (ISO 19115 & OGC) Others…

Data related to Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Management, Weather, Climate, Homeland Security, Defense & Intelligence, Oceans Science are geospatial and can be managed through OGC web services.

• Key reference manual for advancing locally to globally compatible Spatial Data Infrastructures • Contributions from authors worldwide • Available freely at www.gsdi.org

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically SDISDI CookbookCookbook CoreCore Standards:Standards: ISOISO andand OGCOGC

Source: http://www.gsdidocs.org/GSDIWiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Helping the World to Communicate Geographically PolicyPolicy PositionsPositions onon OpenOpen StandardsStandards

• INSPIRE • Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) • NATO C3 • US Federal Enterprise Architecture • National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency • Abu Dhabi, UAE Municipality

400400 1919 municipalitiesmunicipalities countiescounties

Helping the World to Communicate Norway digital providers Geographically IDEC:IDEC: GeoportalGeoportal ofof thethe Catalonia,Catalonia, SpainSpain SpatialSpatial DataData InfrastructureInfrastructure

• The IDEC Map Server implements multiple OGC Web Services Standards

• Data remains with authoritative producers, accessed from across the web

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Landgate, Western Australia Land Agency • Infrastructure Services Planning • Mining • Emergency Management • Community Housing • Commercial Diversity • Permitting

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"When you are delivering spatial web services on behalf of 20 government agencies to more than a 1000 organisations running their own spatial systems, you need standards. Using the internationally recognised OGC standards for both the architecture and web services has been essential to our success. Without them we would not have been able to choose best of breed services and the majority of our users would not be able to integrate the information. "

Kylie Armstrong Manager, Business Programs Landgate, Western Australia August 2008

Publish, discover and task sensors; as well as access, fuse and apply sensor observations in a location context.

•IEEE 1451 Smart Sensor Standard •OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) •OGC Transducer Markup Language (TML) •OGC Observations & Measurements (O&M) •OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS) •OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) •OGC Sensor Alert Service (SAS) •OGC Web Notification Service (WNS) •OASIS (alert) stds

Interoperable access, integration and application of real time sensor observations for enhanced situational awareness

Helping the World to Communicate Copyright © 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., Geographically OGC® SWE & IEEE 1451 Converged in Ocean Applications Diverse sensors, some in IEEE 1451 configurations, are discoverable and Web-accessible via OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) interfaces, in diverse architectures and applications, with geospatial context. IEEE 1451 SWE Applications Sensor Catalogs Networks Stored Vector Feature Data

Sensors/TIM/ Sensor Live NCAP/STWS Stored discovery Sensor Sensor Data commands Sensor data

Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) services (and “cloud” resources) IEEE 1451 Legacy custom/proprietary SWE “direct”

Any sensor system Helping the World to Communicate Geographically SensorSensor WebWeb EnablementEnablement StandardsStandards ApplicationApplication OceanOcean ObservationObservation

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OGC Web Services Phase 4 Testbed (2006)

Standards-based Decision Support Services available to support Actionable Situational Awareness

Web based integration of geospatial data from multiple distributed sources

Discovery, tasking, access and integration of real- Fusion of Building time sensors and sensor Information Models and data- fixed and mobile other engineered information sensors

– BuildingSmart Alliance – CEN287 – GIS Development – Geospatial Information & Technology Association – Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – ISO TC/211, TC/204 – Open Grid Forum – IEEE GRSS – IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) – Mortgage Industry Standards Management Organization – NIST Sensor Standards Harmonization WG – Taxonomic Data Working Group – Workflow Management Coalition – Others

Helping the World to Communicate Copyright © 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Geographically ExamplesExamples ofof wherewhere OGCOGC standardsstandards areare usedused byby otherother standardsstandards organizationsorganizations • OASIS – Hospital Availability (HAVE): Uses an application schema of GML – eXtensible Address Language (xAL) Uses the GML application schema of GeoRSS • IEEE (Smart Sensor) 1451 Uses a GML Point Profile • IETF: Presence Identity Data Format – Location Object – uses a GML application schema • National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) schemas reference a range of OGC standards. • BuildingSmart leverages OGC GML to support the translation of Building Information Models for use in geospatial applications • NENA – GML application schema will be used as basis for map content sharing between pubic safety answering points and local government

• ISO has authorized OGC as a Class A Liaison with Technical Committee 211

– Formal “Joint Advisory Group”

– Submission of OGC Standards for adoption as ISO Standards

OGC Standard ISO Standard Remarks

OGC Simple Features 19125 Approved 2003

OGC Web Map Service 19128 Approved 2005

OGC Geography Markup Language 19136 Approved 2007

OGC Web Feature Service 19142 In Work

OGC Filter Encoding 19143 In Work

OGC Rights Expression Foundation 19149 In Work

OGC GeoDigital Rights Management 19153 In Work

OGC Observations and Measurements 19156 In Work

Status as of 9 September 2008

OGC Abstract Specification ISO Standard Origin

OGC Abstract Spec 1 Feature 19107 ISO Geometry OGC Abstract Spec 2 Spatial 19111 Joint Referencing OGC Abstract Spec 7 Earth 19101-2 Joint Imagery OGC Abstract Spec 11 Metadata 19115 ISO

OGC Abstract Spec 12 Services 19119 ISO Architecture

• Mechanism for rapid industry collaborative development, testing, validation and demonstration of candidate standards

• OGC Testbed activities are advancing standards based on requirements related to: – Defense and Intelligence - Environment – Emergency Mgt / Response - Earth Observation – Homeland Security - Rights Management – Mass Market - Geospatially Enabled Grid Computing – Urban Modeling / Visualization - Security/Authentication – Aviation flight safety - Workflow Management – Other…

• OGC standards and programs are being applied to address a range of interoperability requirements significant to SDI’s worldwide • Hundreds of products implementing geospatial standards of the OGC, ISO and complimentary open standards are available in the marketplace • OGC / ISO geospatial standards underpin community geospatial implementations -- from local to international levels

• Policy in favor of OGC, ISO and complimentary standards is helping to improve geospatial information sharing, and enabling technologies to be mobilized quickly at lower cost.

• Coordination across SDO’s is critical for continued success in addressing SDI challenges

“What we are doing is facilitating a common picture of reality for different organizations which have different views of the reality, the disaster, the emergency, the catastrophe, that they all have to deal with collectively”

David Schell Chairman and Founder OGC

Mark E. Reichardt President and CEO [email protected] +1 301 840-1361