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The OGC and GEO/GEOSS
Dipl.-Geogr. Athina Trakas
OGC Director European Services
atrakas@opengeospatial.org
With input from
Bart De Lathouwer.

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This presentation is about...
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… a few words about the OGC
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… the Architecture Implementation Pilot

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Cross-Boundary Information Sharing
Continues to be one of our biggest challenges!
The ability to access, fuse and
apply diverse data sources is
critical to situational
awareness
Source:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Blaues_Wunder_Hochwasser_2002.JPG
Source:
http://www.ign-sn.de/GI2012/GI2012-OpenDataPolicies-FINAL-Programme-WEB.pdf

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Improving Knowledge Sharing and Transfer
We are addressing critical issues, that need cooperation:
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Growth in urban centers and coastal areas
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Climate Change, Environmental
Monitoring
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Water Resource
availability and quality
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Emergency planning,
preparedness & response
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Aviation Safety
...and many more
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/pub/ogcnetwork/GEOSS/AIP3/index.html

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Standards, Interoperability & Data Access
Availability of geo data is crucial for the
administration, businesses and citizens alike.
But how to share data?
Key factor for accessibility is standardisation. It is
the definition of common interfaces to enable
interoperability.

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Some facts about
the OGC
http://www.youtube.com/ogcvideo
→ more videos on OGC's Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ogcvideo/videos

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OGC at a glance (1)
• Founded in 1994, not for profit, consensus based and voluntary
• 475+ member organisations (industry, government, academia)
(May 2014) http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members
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„We can't share maps on the Web.“
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„We can't deliver data to different
systems easily.“
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„We don't have a common language
to speak about our geospatial data
or our services.“
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„We can't find and pull together data
from our automated sensors.“

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OGC Members
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members
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Europe – 202
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North America – 176
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Asia Pacific – 83
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Middle East – 11
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South America – 4
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Africa – 2

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• 35+ adopted OGC Standards (some are ISO Standards)
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards
• Thousands software products and applications, implementing
OGC Standards http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products
OGC at a glance (2)
http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource

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OGC at a glance (3)
• Broad user community worldwide, many policy positions for
National and International Spatial Data Infrastructures based on
OGC standards
• Cooperation with other standards organisations and
foundations, ISO/TC 211, OSGeo, W3C, OASIS and others
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners

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OGC and GEOSS
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems
– Uses OGC standards for resource discovery
• Catalog Service for Web (CSW)
– Uses OGC standards for resource access
• WMS, WFS, WCS, SOS
– Uses OGC encodings and data formats
• NetCDF, WaterML, …

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Architecture Implementation Pilot
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIpilot
→ „The GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) develops and
deploys new process and infrastructure components for the GEOSS
Common Infrastructure (GCI) and the broader GEOSS architecture.“
→ AIP is an agile, evolutionary development process, that
proves the maturity of the infrastructure components.
→ Need to establish a good set of standards and results that
show web access to EO data.
→ The process was initiated in 2007.
→ AIP-5 on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsQNjNIDU85Hax3xsz153bpEbej0R1VD

13. OGC
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GEOSS
Clearinghouses
GEO
Web Portals
GEOSS Common
Infrastructure
Components
& Services
Standards and
Interoperability
Best Practices
Wiki
User
Requirements
Registries
Main GEO
Web Site Registered Community
Resources
Community
Portals
Client
Applications
Client Tier
Business Process Tier
Community
Catalogues
Alert
Servers
Workflow
Management
Processing
Servers
Access Tier
GEONETCast
Product
Access
Servers
Sensor Web
Servers
Model Access
Servers
Test
Facility
Mediation
Servers
Engineering Viewpoint - AIP Baseline

14. OGC
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GEOSS
Clearinghouses
GEO
Web Portals
GEOSS Common
Infrastructure
Components
& Services
Standards and
Interoperability
Best Practices
Wiki
User
Requirements
Registries
Main GEO
Web Site
CSW WMS
CSW
Registered Community
Resources
Community
Portals
Client
Applications
Client Tier
Business Process Tier
Community
Catalogues
Alert
Servers
Workflow
Management
Processing
Servers
Access Tier
GEONETCast
Product
Access
Servers
Sensor Web
Servers
Model Access
Servers
Test
Facility
Mediation
Servers
CSW WMS CSW W*S
WMS WFS CSW SOS SAS SPS W*S
CSW
WPS

15. OGC
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AIP Agile Development previous phases
• AIP-1 Kickoff: Jun 2007; Alpha operations Nov 2007; Arch Workshop Feb 2008
– "Core" Architecture defined initial version of GCI
• AIP-2 Kickoff Sep 2008; demo ISRSE May 2009; Beta operations Sep 2009
– SBA implementations of common cross-cutting architecture;
Refined GCI concept supporting transition to operations
• AIP-3 Kickoff Mar 2010; results to Beijing Plenary; Complete Feb 2011
– Enabled network building in GEOSS SBA communities;
Piloted Broker and Processing capabilities
• AIP-4 Kickoff May 2011; results to Istanbul Plenary; Complete Dec 2011
– Increased access to priority earth observation data; via
server software, tutorials and application clients
“Fostering interoperability arrangements and common practices for GEOSS”

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OGC supports GEO Appathon
• Encourage use of GEOSS Common Infrastructure
(GCI)
– Promote the use of EO resources
• More than imagery
– Promote the use, uptake and dissemination of standards
• OGC supports international character of the Appathon
• Bring the findings back to the standards process
– Earth System Science (ESS) DWG

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Domain Working Groups
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg
...provide a
forum for
discussion of
key inter-
operability
requirements
and issues
(...)

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Domain Working Groups
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg
...provide a
forum for
discussion of
key inter-
operability
requirements
and issues
(...)

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GEO Appathon feedback to the AIP
• Encourage feedback to Architecture Implementation
Pilot (AIP) – Phase 7
– Develops and deploys new process and infrastructure
components for GCI and broader GEOSS architecture.
– Requirements from user needs and community scenario.
– Results conveyed to the GEO Implementation Boards for
consideration as operational elements.
• Encourage Appathon participants to engage in AIP’s
– Point of contact at OGC: Bart de Lathouwer
(bdelathouwer@opengeospatial.org)

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Thank you for your attention!
Bart de Lathouwer
Director Interoperability Program
Open Geospatial Consortium
Tel.: +32 3 336 75 47
Mobil: +32 497 46 62 41
eMail: bdelathouwer@opengeospatial.org
web: http://www.opengeospatial.org

21. The OGC and its Interoperability Program
http://www.youtube.com/ogcvi
deo
→ more videos on OGC's YouTube
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ogcvideo/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/ogcvideo/videos
→ OGC Interoperability Program Introduction

22. References
• GEO
– earthobservations.org
• GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot
– www.ogcnetwork.net/AIpilot