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Copyright 2007, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)Copyright 2007, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)

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OGC Program OverviewPresented to

EEA

9 October 2007

Mark E. [email protected]

+1 (301) 840-1361

Carl [email protected]

+1 970 402-0284

Copyright 2007, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)2

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What is the OGC?What is the OGC?

• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

– Global, not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization

– A forum for industry, government, academia and research organizations to define interoperability requirements and advance open standards solutions

– Founded in 1994, Incorporated in US, UK, Australia

OGC leads the development, testing, promotion OGC leads the development, testing, promotion and harmonization of open spatial standardsand harmonization of open spatial standards

OGC MissionOGC Mission

To development, promotion and harmonization of To development, promotion and harmonization of open spatial standards …open spatial standards …



OGC - Quick BackgroundOGC - Quick Background

• Over 350 members from 35 countries & 6 continents– 146 European members – 41 Asia-Pacific members (emphasizing growth in this region)– 156 North America

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• 21 approved, publicly available Implementation Specifications

• Many other best practice documents

• OGC standards used in broader IT standards

• Hundreds of product implementations



What Drives OGC Standards Development?What Drives OGC Standards Development?

OGC members are tackling major interoperability challenges of next-generation data / service sharing and collaboration….

Developing new specifications for location-based services interoperability and spatially enabling the systems and enterprises

OGCWeb

Services

Earth Science / Earth Observation

Sustainable Development

E-Government

Disaster / Emergency Management

Defense & Intelligence

Sensor Webs

Location-BasedServices

Web Mapping

Modeling &Simulation

Decision Support

Multi-SourceOperations

Critical Infrastructure Protection

Mobile Enterprise

Insurance/Re-Insurance

Research Validation

Regional Planning

Logistics / Asset Management

Digital Rights Management

Urban Planning / Visualization

Aviation / Telematics



Broad Market AvailabilityBroad Market Availabilitysee http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products see http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products

• Free availability of standards stimulates market

• Hundreds of Products Implementing OGC Standards

• Compliance Test & Certification Program



Benefits of OGC Standards and ProgramsBenefits of OGC Standards and Programs

– Reduced technology life cycle costs – Through the use of standards based COTS products, users have a better chance to reduce the cost of custom solutions and associated maintenance.

– Rapid Insertion of New Technology –OpenGIS® facilitate an organization’s ability to rapidly mobilize new (and often unanticipated) geospatial technology solutions.

– Introduce requirements for industry action – The OGC consensus process gives user organizations a forum to work legally and directly with industry to encourage cooperative development and alignment of new open standards.

– Improved choice in the marketplace –OGC standards are designed to enable a choice of products that can plug-and-play seamlessly in system or enterprise environments. No single application meets the needs of all users.


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Community ImplementationsCommunity Implementations



Global Biodiversity Information FacilityGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility

• From the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) web site– How to add topographical

layers to Google Earth using Web Map Service (WMS) is explained on a page that is linked from the GBIF and Google Earth page.

– http://ge.gbif.net/gbifwmslinks.php



NSW Natural Resource AtlasNSW Natural Resource Atlas

http://www.nratlas.nsw.gov.au/wmc/savedapps/nratlas

Map, query and download environmental data with the NRAtlas - the New South Wales portal to maps and data for environmental management, planning, research and education. Browse across a range of environmental themes and create your own maps.



ReefBase: A Global Information System ReefBase: A Global Information System on Coral Reefson Coral Reefs

ReefBase (www.reefbase.org) is the world's largest online information system on coral reefs, servingscientists, managers, educators, and others with a professional interest in these important natural resources.

http://reefgis.reefbase.org/mapper.asp



China Ministry of Land and ResourcesChina Ministry of Land and Resources• “We are using Web Feature Service to build data exchange system in

Ministry of Land and Resource, this system can implement the capability of two level (country level and province level) data exchange and can satisfy the update requirement of 1:10000 land use status quo data.” Wenjue Jia, Yumin Chen, Jianya Gong, Aixia Li, China 2005.



CustomWeatherCustomWeather

• WMS and WFS -. CustomWeather takes in over 8 GB/day of National Weather Service raw model data, satellite feeds, radar feeds and lightning feeds. From these constantly changing inputs the company generates forecasts and weather maps for over 58,000 unique locations worldwide, delivering real-time and forecasted mapping layers.



Tsunami Information PortalTsunami Information Portal

• Developed by DM Solutions in concert with Asian Institute of Technology, Chulalongkorn University, and Laboratory of Applied Geomatics. Uses OpenGIS WMS Interface



Canada's National Forest Service Information SystemCanada's National Forest Service Information System

The NFIS team had these requirements:

1.The solution had to be vendor neutral.

2.The solution had to have a low cost of entry (funding for the different partners varied widely).

3.The solution had to ensure that intellectual property rights stayed with the agency/government that created the data.

4.The solution, to address low cost of entry, should have an open source option.

"We needed to rationally address data sharing." Dr. Robin Quenet, Project Manager, National Forest Information System (NFIS)



National Climate Data Center PortalNational Climate Data Center Portal

• NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. The NCDC portal uses WMS and WFS interfaces to provide access to numerous climatological and meteorological resources.

• http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/aimstools/gis.jsp



New Mexico Antelope Management Info SystemNew Mexico Antelope Management Info System

• The Antelope Management Information System is one of the applications accessing DOQQ imagery through an interface that implements the WMS specification.



Oceans Interoperability ExperimentOceans Interoperability Experiment



OGC Alliance Partnerships OGC Alliance Partnerships

– World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)– Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)– COMCARE– Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) – Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI)– International Organization for Standards (ISO)– OASIS– Object Management Group (OMG)– Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)– Web3D– Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization– International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) – IEEE GRSS– IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web)– National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)– Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG)– Others


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OGC Organization and OGC Organization and ProgramsPrograms



OGC’s Approach for Advancing InteroperabilityOGC’s Approach for Advancing Interoperability

• Interoperability Program (IP) - a global, innovative, hands-on prototyping and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and validation, and bring interoperability to the market

• Specification Development Program –Consensus processes similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA, OMG, etc.).

• Outreach and Community Adoption Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC specifications, business development, communications programs

Rapid InterfaceDevelopment

StandardsSetting

MarketAdoption



Interoperability Program Outreach & CommunityAdoption

Specification Program

Participants

Sponsors

Init. Mgmt. Team

Interop.Initiative

Participants

Sponsors

Init. Mgmt. Team

Interop.Initiative

Participants

Sponsors

Init. Mgmt. Team

Interop.Initiative

IP Management Team

SpecialInterestGroup(SIG)

SpecialInterestGroup(SIG)

WorkingGroup(WG)

TechnicalCommittee

Market and Regional Programs

Strategic Alliances

Education

PlanningCommittee

StandardsLiaison

StandardsLiaison

StandardsLiaison

Sub-Committee

Sub-Committee

Sub-Committee

StrategicMemberAdvisory

Committee

OGC Archit.Board

Board of Directors

Executive Director & Staff

Member Services



OGC StaffOGC StaffOGCE*

Mike Jackson, Chair

OGCACarl Reed, Chair

Chairman & CEO

David Schell

Executive DirectorSpec Program & CTO

Carl Reed

Executive DirectorOCP

Sam Bacharach

VP, Ops & FinanceDirector, BOD

Jeff Burnett

Business Support

Debbie GreenslitLynne Janbergs

Christine SenoskiBarbara Sherman

Field Operations

Greg BuehlerMark Buehler

Kevin Stegemoller

Consultants

Image MattersTraverse Tech

Others

Comm TeamLance McKee*

Tina Carey*

Strategic MemberDedicated Staff

BAELMCo

PresidentDirector, BOD

Mark Reichardt

Executive DirectorTechnical Operations

George Percivall

Executive DirectorGlobal Business Develop’t

Louis Hecht

Interoperability Program


Outreach & Communications Program

PlanningCommittee

TechnicalCommittee

WGs

Strategic MemberAdvisory Committee

GOV SIG

UNIV SIG

Architecture BoardStaff

Raj SinghMartin Klopfer*

Business Devel.Europe

Athina Trakas*

Names in Green = consultantsBAE, LMC staff are donated based on Strategic Membership Agreement


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Specification ProgramSpecification Program

OGC Staff Lead:

Carl Reed



What is the Technical Committee?What is the Technical Committee?

• Where the formal specification consensus discussion and approval process occurs.

– Comprised of a number of Working Groups (WGs) and Revision Working Groups.

• WGs provide a forum for discussion of key interoperability issue areas, discussion and review of specifications, and presentations on key technology areas relevant to solving geospatial interoperability issues.

• RWG perform revision and maintenance of adopted specifications.



Role of the Technical Committee (TC)Role of the Technical Committee (TC)

• Coordinate development of and modifications to the OGC Abstract Specification.

• Coordinate development and adoption of OGC Implementation Specifications.

• Evaluate Request For Comment proposals from Voting Members.

• In all cases of adopted specifications in a revision process, work to insure the highest level of achievable backwards compatibility to the previous release.

• Evaluate possible modifications to existing adopted specifications (Implementation Specifications), and recommend adoption of such modifications to the Planning Committee.

• Discuss and consider technologies that may be highly valuable to the development of Specifications.

• Capture and document domain and information community requirements for interoperability.



Active TC WGsActive TC WGs

• Specification Centric WGs– GML, WFS, Catalogue, Coordinate Reference System (CRS)

• Horizontal Technology Focus– Geo Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM), Information

Communities and Semantics (ICS), Architecture, Decision Support (DSS), Security and Authentication, Data Quality, Data Preservation

• Domain Focused WGs– CAD-GIS Integration, Earth Observation(EO), Natural Resources

and Environment (NRE), Imagery Exploitation (IES), Risk and Crisis Management (RCM)



Working GroupsWorking Groups



What is the Planning Committee (PC)?What is the Planning Committee (PC)?

• The Planning Committee provides guidelines and the management structure for the Technical Committee and the Interoperability Program.

– Members participate in OGC business planning and market focus activities

– Manages the consortium’s technology release process

– Approves the slate of nominees for the OGC Board of Directors

– Must be a Principal or Strategic Member to participate in PC activities.



Mission of OGC Architecture BoardMission of OGC Architecture Board

• The mission of the OAB is to provide a forum within which Consortium wide standards architecture issues can be discussed and deliberated.– Works with the TC and the PC to insure architecture consistency of

the Standards Baseline and provide guidance to the OGC membership to insure strong life cycle management of the OGC standards baseline.



Technical Committee MeetingsTechnical Committee Meetings

• The OGC Technical Committee meets 4 times a year – twice in North America, twice in Europe. Tentative 2007/8 schedule:– September 17-20 Boulder, CO USA– December 13-16 Ispra, Italy– March 2008 Washington, DC USA – June 2008 Bremen, Germany– September 2008 TBR, USA (west coast)– December 2008 London, United Kingdom

• As a Technical member of the OGC, EEA receives 2 free meeting registrations.


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OGC Interoperability ProgramOGC Interoperability Program

OGC Staff Lead:

George Percivall

[email protected]



The OGC Interoperability ProgramThe OGC Interoperability Program

• Global, innovative, collaborative, hands-on engineering and testing program to draft and test and validate specifications for consideration by OGC Technical Committee

“Technology Incubator” • Delivers:

– candidate specifications into the Specification Development Process

– product implementations that use these candidate standards

– demonstrated capability achieved through comprehensive testing, validation and public demonstrations based on real work business cases.

• Sponsors and Participants work together.

– Sponsors provide requirements, use / business cases and funding

– Participants work with sponsors to define and/or refine OGC interface specifications to solve a given

interoperability problem



OGC Interoperability ProgramOGC Interoperability Program

• A proven process to rapidly develop, test, validate and demonstrate new standards based on real world use cases identified by OGC members

• An effective way for members to quickly align industry to advance standards to meet priority needs

• An efficient and competitive process, often yielding a high level of industry participation and cooperation

• A repeatable process – over 30 initiatives have been successfully conducted using proven policies and procedures

• A mechanism to advance standards that address user community business cases, requirements and priorities.



Roles in Interoperability Program InitiativesRoles in Interoperability Program Initiatives

• Initiative Sponsors (OGC Members) work with a team of OGC staff and technical experts to document interoperability requirements. This process includes the development of an initiative's use cases, vision, technology objectives, and timeline. Sponsors contribute resources – funding, personnel, facilities, etc.

• In response to the sponsor’s requirements, Initiative Participants, mainly technology provider companies, establish specific technical requirements for specification development or enhancement and determine the scope and agenda. Multi-vendor participant teams develop and document the prototype interfaces, encodings etc. and perform other technical tasks.

• OGC staff facilitates the overall process. OGC staff works with the members to: publish Requests for Technology (RFTs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and Calls for Participation (CFPs); manage initiatives; and provide liaison with other industry consortia and de jure standards organizations.



Types of Interoperability Program InitiativesTypes of Interoperability Program Initiatives

• Testbeds provide an environment for fast-paced, multi-vendor collaborative efforts to define, design, develop, and test candidate interface and encoding specifications. These draft specifications are then reviewed, revised, and, potentially, approved in the OGC Specification Program.

• Interoperability Experiments are brief, low overhead, formally structured and approved initiatives led and executed by OGC members to achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.

• Pilot Projects apply and test OpenGIS Specifications in real world applications using standards-based commercial off-the-shelf (SCOTS) products that implement OpenGIS Specifications. Pilot projects are designed to help users understand how to best implement interoperable geoprocessing that meets their requirements for application, spatial data, and geoprocessing service sharing.



Interoperability Program DevelopmentInteroperability Program Development

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SpecificationsImplementationsDemonstrations

Types of IP Initiatives



OGC Testbed ApproachOGC Testbed Approach

*RFQ/CFP = Request for Quotation / Call for Participation*RFQ/CFP = Request for Quotation / Call for Participation ExecutionExecution

Task DTask D

Kick-offKick-offPreparationPreparation

Task CTask C

RFQ/CFP*RFQ/CFP*DevelopmentDevelopment

Task BTask B

ConceptConceptDevelopmentDevelopment

Task ATask AOGC staff manages the entire process

with policies and procedures proven to produce results.

Over 30 initiatives have been successfully

completed since 1999. Most OGC standards

are advanced through this process.



Some Recent Interoperability Program Initiatives Some Recent Interoperability Program Initiatives

• OGC Web Services Phase 4 Testbed– www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows4/index.html Summary Video

– www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-4 Text Summary

• Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment– www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/oceansie

• GALEON Interoperability Experiment– www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/galeonie

• Federated Earth Observation Pilot– www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/fedeo


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Outreach and Community AdoptionOutreach and Community Adoption



Outreach and Community AdoptionOutreach and Community Adoption

• OCAP works to encourage "take up" or implementation of OpenGIS specifications, as well as to encourage new membership and engagement in OGC programs and initiatives.

• Emphasis on:– Partnerships / Alliances with professional associations

– Conferences

– Publications (OGC User, OGC News, Articles for journals/magazines, Press Releases)

– Training and Education

– OGC Member Support Services (OGC Member Portal, OGC Public Website…)



OGC Member Portal OGC Member Portal


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Current Member FocusCurrent Member FocusAreasAreas



Current OGC Member Focus AreasCurrent OGC Member Focus Areas

• Real Time Services

CAD / AEC / Geospatial Integration

Sensor Web Enablement

Open Location Services

Multi-source Integration

Symbology and Style Management

Service Chaining / Decision Support

Information Interoperability / Semantics

Web-based Modeling and Simulation

• E-Commerce

Real time transaction services

Geospatial Digital Rights Management

• Mass Market Geospatial

• Data Quality

• Data Preservation



The Sensor Web EnablementThe Sensor Web EnablementSuite of SWE Standards To be Released in Summer 2007Suite of SWE Standards To be Released in Summer 2007


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Interoperability Between the “As Interoperability Between the “As Built” and Geospatial WorldsBuilt” and Geospatial Worlds



Geospatial and AEC Worlds

• The data modeling and data exchange activities of the geospatial community have typically been concerned with the outdoor world.

• There are many important resources and events that occur in the indoor world – the world of Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC)

• The AEC world is very actively developing standards for the semantic modeling of buildings and related activities.

• The OGC Open Web Services CAD/GIS/BIM WG and OWS-4 testbed explored directions for interoperability between the Geospatial and AEC worlds



Seamless semantics and spatial information for AEC/Geospatial/BIM



3D City Models – Multifunctional Use3D City Models – Multifunctional Use

• Urban Planning

• Urban Modeling

• Microclimate Analysis

• Emergency Management and Response

• Logistics Flow

• Critical Infrastructure Management / Protection

• Sustainable Communities

• Retail Services

Source: T. H. Kolbe: Standardization of 3D City Models


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Overview of Overview of OGC Web Services 4OGC Web Services 4

(OWS4)(OWS4)

Completed – December 2006Completed – December 2006



Geoprocessing Workflow

Compliance Test

Geo DigitalRights MgtGIS/CAD/BIM

Open LocationServices

Geo DecisionSupport Services

Sensor Web Enablement

OGC Web Services-Phase 4 (OWS-4) TestbedOGC Web Services-Phase 4 (OWS-4) Testbed

• Objective: Collaboratively extend and demonstrate OGC standards baseline for interoperable, multi-source decision support

• June 2006 to December 2006

• Sponsorship total $1.8M



Eleven OWS-4 SponsorsEleven OWS-4 Sponsors

• These organizations have provided requirements and funding:– BAE Systems– GeoConnections Canada – US DOD– National Technology Alliance– NATO C3– Lockheed Martin IM&S– Oak Ridge National Labs– UK Ordnance Survey – US NASA– US General Services Administration– Tele Atlas N.V.



66 Organizations Selected to Participate in OWS-466 Organizations Selected to Participate in OWS-4

• 3eTi• ADI• AEC Infosystems • AEC3 • Autodesk • BAE Systems• Bentley• Compusult • con terra• CSIRO-EM• CSIRO-ICT • Cubewerx• deCarta• Eco-Systems• ESRI• FAO (GeoNetwork)• Fraunhofer• Galdos• General Services Admin• GeoConnections• GeoTexel• GMU

• Onuma• Oracle• Ordnance Survey• ORNL• PCI Geomatics• PANYNJ• COMCARE• Smart Sensors• Snowflake• Spacebel• Spot Image• Technical University of Munich• Tele Atlas • TOPP• Traverse Technologies• UAH• UniBW – AGIS• Univ of Bonn• Univ.Muenster - IFGI • University of Potsdam• Vightel • Washington University, StL• Thirteen/WNET

• Harvard

• Image Matters

• IndoorLBS

• Interactive Instruments

• Intergraph

• Ionic

• IRIS (Argon ST)

• ITC

• ITT

• IU Bremen

• Laser-Scan

• Lat-lon

• LizardTech

• LMCo

• MAGIC Services Forum

• MapXperts

• NASA

• NATO C3 Agency

• Navteq

• NGA

• NG-TASC

• NTA



OWS4 DeliverablesOWS4 Deliverables

- 56 Technology Component Reference implementations- Commercial and open source technologies that have been modified

to use draft OGC standards developed or extended as part of the OWS4 testbed

- 36 Draft OGC Standards / Interoperability Reports - Standards to address priorities of sponsors- Reports on performance of standards in accomplishing particular

business cases- In a format that can be readily submitted to the OGC Technical

Committee for maturation as an adopted OGC standard



DiscussionDiscussion

• Recommended initial areas for EEA focus:– Specification Program

• Decision Support WG• Natural Resources & Environment / EO WG• Geo Rights Management WG• European Forum• Geosemantics WG

– Interoperability Program• Ocean Science IE - OWS-5 Testbed• GALEON IE• Federated EO Pilot



Questions?Questions?

www.opengeospatial.org



Additional OGC Public Website ReferencesAdditional OGC Public Website References

• OGC Membership Listing– http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members

• OGC Policy Documents (Bylaws, Committee Policies and Procedures etc.)– http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies

• OGC Board of Directors Listing– http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/bod

• OGC Staff Listing– http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff

• OGC Technical Committee Working Groups– http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg

• Products Implementing OGC Standards– http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products



Key Interoperability ProgramKey Interoperability ProgramResources / ReferencesResources / References

• Overview of OGC’s Interoperability Program:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/programs/ip

• Interoperability Program Policies and Procedures– http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/ippp

• Active Interoperability Program initiatives:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/active

• Past initiatives:– http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/past

• Video Summary of a recent OGC Testbed, OGC Web Services 4 (OWS4)– www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows4/index.html