Open Geospatial Consortium
Submission Date: 2013-05-03
Approval Date: 2013-08-30
Posted Date: 2013-09-11
OGC Document number: OGC 13-032
Reference URL for this document: www.opengisl.net/doc//er/swe-maturity
Category: Public Engineering Report
Editor: George Percivall
OGC® SWE Implementation Maturity Engineering Report
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OGC 13-032
Preface
An assessment of the maturity of implementations of OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards is documented in this OGC Engineering Report (ER). The assessment was conducted using the OGC Request for Information (RFI) process. The RFI was supported by Envitia under contract by Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), Advanced Geospatial information and Intelligence Services (AGIS) research program within Ministry of Defense (MoD).
Successful implementations of SWE were identified in order to provide the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) with a “state of the practice” and benefits of using SWE. While all implementations of SWE were of interest, of particular interest to the RFI were operational implementations of SWE in the defense and space community, with direct interest in Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR).
Beginning in 2001, there have been numerous implementations based on the SWE standards. Based on the contents of this Engineering Report, the current status of the maturity of SWE implementation can be summarized as: