OGC and GSDI: A Partnership in Advancing SDI Best Practices

OGC and GSDI: A Partnership in Advancing SDI Best Practices GSDI 11 Workshop 1.4 SDI Challenges 15 June 2009 Mark Reichardt President and CEO mreichardt@opengeospatial.org +1 301 840-1361 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

Advancing A Global Spatial Data Infrastructure For Many Communities of Interest

Advancing A Global Spatial Data Infrastructure For Many Communities of Interest Education & Research Sustainable Development Health Utilities Emergency Services E -Government Agriculture Energy Water

GSDI Mission 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

The OGC Mission 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. Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC CityGML Urban Model of Berlin Source: www.3d-stadtmodell stadtmodell-berlin.de

OGC Snapshot A Voluntary Consensus Standards Organization, founded in 1994. Currently 386 members Industry, Government, Academia OGC Membership Distribution Asia / Pacific 28 adopted standards Hundreds of product implementations in the market Broad user community implementation worldwide Alliances with many other SDOs Europe 169 N. America 164 Africa Europe N America S America Asia Pacific Middle East Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OGC Snapshot A Voluntary Consensus Standards Organization, founded in 1994. OGC Membership Distribution Currently 386 members Industry, Government, Academia 28 adopted standards Hundreds of product implementations in the market Academic NFP Government Commercial Broad user community implementation worldwide Alliances with many other SDO s Commercial Government Not For Profit Academic Research Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,

What do we mean by Open Standards? Freely and publicly available Non discriminatory No license fees Vendor neutral Data neutral Agreed to by a formal consensus process Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OGC s s Approach to Advancing Interoperability 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 2009 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. 9

Approved OGC Implementation Standards (Freely available at www.opengeospatial.org) Catalogue Services Catalogue Service Processing Services Open Location Services (OpenLS) Coordinate Transformation Service Sensor Planning Service (SPS) Web Processing Service (WPS) Portrayal Services Web Map Service Data Services Grid Coverage Service Simple Features (4) Web Coverage Service Web Feature Service Encodings Geography Markup Language (GML) Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Transducer Markup Language (TML) Sensor Model Language (SensorML) CityGML Web Map Context (WMC) Observations & Measurements (O&M) Filter Encoding KML Symbology Encoding GML in JPEG 2000 GeoXACML Web Services Common And many more approved Best Practices, Profiles and Schema Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

A Geospatial Web Services digital Dial Tone 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. Copyright 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

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

SDI Cookbook Core Standards: ISO and OGC Source: http://www.gsdidocs.org/gsdiwiki/index.php?title=main_page

Policy Positions on Open Standards INSPIRE Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) NATO C3 US Federal Enterprise Architecture National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency Abu Dhabi, UAE Municipality Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,

Digital Norway Users 400 municipalities 19 counties Norway digital providers

IDEC: Geoportal of the Catalonia, Spain Spatial Data Infrastructure The IDEC Map Server implements multiple OGC Web Services Standards Data remains with authoritative producers, accessed from across the web Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

Geospatial Interoperability Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) Landgate, Western Australia Land Agency Infrastructure Services Planning Mining Emergency Management Community Housing Commercial Diversity Permitting Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved.

Landgate Perspective Why a common Standards Baseline Matters "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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

The Sensor Web 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,

IEEE 1451 Sensor Networks Sensors/TIM/ NCAP/STWS Stored Vector Feature Data SWE Applications Sensor discovery Sensor commands Live Sensor data IEEE 1451 Legacy custom/proprietary SWE direct Any sensor system Catalogs Stored Sensor Data 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. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) services (and cloud resources)

SDI In Action: Multi-source fusion for Situational Awareness Via Common Standards Baseline 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 realtime sensors and sensor data- fixed and mobile sensors Fusion of Building Information Models and other engineered information Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,

OGC Alliance Partnerships A Critical Resource for Advancing Standards 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

Examples of where OGC standards are used by other standards organizations 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., 25

OGC and ISO 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,

OGC Implementation Standards in ISO 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OGC and ISO Common Standards OGC Abstract Specification OGC Abstract Spec 1 Feature Geometry OGC Abstract Spec 2 Spatial Referencing OGC Abstract Spec 7 Earth Imagery OGC Abstract Spec 11 Metadata OGC Abstract Spec 12 Services Architecture ISO Standard Origin 19107 ISO 19111 Joint 19101-2 Joint 19115 ISO 19119 ISO Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., 28

OGC Testbeds, Pilots, Experiments 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

Summary (I) 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,

Summary (II) 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

A Global Forum For Collaboration 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 Copyright 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.