IRLOGI Update on the Open Geospatial Consortium Activities

® IRLOGI Update on the Open Geospatial Consortium Activities 12 July 2017 Scott Simmons Executive Director, Standards Program ssimmons@opengeospatial. org Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Agenda • OGC and our Standards Framework • How OGC gets things done • Innovation OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading open innovation for geospatial data • Founded in 1994 • 520+ member organizations • 50 Open Standards • 99 innovation initiatives • 268 OGC certified products • Thousands of implementations • Enabling access to 100 K+ datasets OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Example OGC Commercial Members OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Why Open Standards? ● Prevents a single, self-interested party from controlling a standard • Lower systems and life cycle costs • Encourage market competition – Choose based on functionality desired – Avoid “lock in” to a proprietary architecture “What OGC brings to the table is…everyone has confidence we won’t take advantage of the format or change it in a way that will harm anyone” Michael Weiss-Malik, Google KML product manager • Stimulates innovation beyond the standard by companies that seek to differentiate themselves. OGC ® Source: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness, April 2006. Committee For Economic Development. www. ced. org Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Basic Geospatial Interoperability Challenge Solved 100 Ks maps & datasets accessible - 10 Ks OGC Web Services One. Geology. Org City. GML Digital. Globe Eurocontrol Emergency / Disaster Management Meteorology, Hydrology, Ocean Monitoring OGC ® Aviation Flight Information / Safety Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

THE OGC STANDARDS FRAMEWORK OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC’s Geospatial Interoperability Standards Framework OGC Web Services • OGC Web Service Standards Web Feature Server Web Coverage Server – Integrate and share all types of geospatial and remote sensing data • OGC Sensor Web Enablement and Sensor. Things Standards Web Map Server – Discover, task, access and process observations from fixed & mobile sensors – Access and integration of Internet of Things • Support Analysis and Processing Source: Thomas Kolbe, Berlin TU OGC Sensor Web Enablement – Environmental modeling – Urban models – Geospatial Big Data / Analytics • 3 D Visualization & Augmented Reality – Outdoor location, routing – Indoor location • Social Media / Crowdsourcing – Geo-enabled Social Media OGC ® © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language 2. 0 Services Viewpoint

Standards Focus - Fast Moving Geospatial Marketplace Mass Market Matters! Location matters! Loosely Coupled Web Services Cloud-mediated Cloud & Apps control of devices Remote sensing & GIS Modeling and Simulation UAVs Geoportals High velocity & Big Data Online sensors GPS Technology CONVERGENCE Matters! Past OGC Cloud Processing * Cloud-based sensor apps Mobile devices Semantic Mediation Io. T Sensor Mediation and Fusion Augmented reality mobile display Data PROVENANCE, OPENNESS, QUALITY and PERSISTENCE Present Future ® © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium 9

Geo. Package universal geodata file format • Geo. Package is a universal file format for geodata. – open, standards-based, application and platform independent, and self-describing. – Works on any desktop or mobile OS – Connected / limited / disconnected environment use • Geo. Package - the modern alternative to formats like Geo. TIFF, SDTS and vendor specific • Experience it here: http: //www. ogcnetwork. net/geopackage OGC ®

Geo. Package: Raster Maps, Images and Feature Data in One File Feature Data Imagery Low – High Resolution Raster Maps: Small – Large Scale OGC ® Tile Pyramids 24 zoom levels Single File Sqlite Database containing all data for direct-use on mobile platforms & handheld devices

OGC Moving Features Encoding Standard • "Moving features" data describes such things as vehicles, pedestrians, airplanes and ships. – This is Big Data – high volume, high velocity. • CSV and XML encodings of ISO 19141 OGC ® Copyright © 2016 Open Geospatial Consortium

Addressing the Internet of Things • Information Models/Encodings – Geospatial Data – providing context • Simple Features • Coverages • City. GML • Indoor. GML – Sensor Web Data Stair • Observation and Measurement Room 1 • Sensor Model Language • Water. ML • Web Service Interfaces – Sensor Observation Services – Sensor Planning Services • RESTful API – Sensor. Things API OGC Non-Navigable Space Room 2 Room 3 Room 1 Room 3 a Room 2 Room 3 b Wi. Fi A Wi. Fi B Wi. Fi AB ® 13

OGC Sensor. Things for Io. T Today: Proprietary Silos, No “World-Wide Web of Things” • Builds on OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards that are operational around the world • Builds on Web protocols; easy-to-use Sensor. Things: Io. T Mash. Up • OGC standard for open access to Io. T devices Source: OGC IMIS Io. T Pilot: http: //www. opengeospatial. org/projects/initiatives/imisi OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC City. GML & Indoor. GML Source: www. directionsmag. com Source: http: //www 1. nyc. gov/site/doitt/initiatives/3 d-building. page OGC ® © 2016 Open Geospatial Consortium • Urban Planning / Operations • Emergency Mgt / Response • Transportation / Routing / Logistics • Indoor navigation • Retail Site analysis • Sustainable / Green Communities • City Services Management • Noise abatement • Telecommunications placement • Many other uses…

Supporting Climate Action • European Commission Climate Action 2030 – 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels – Increase renewable energy to at least 27% – Increase energy efficiency by 27% - 30% http: //ec. europa. eu/clima/news/articles/news_2014012202_en. htm OGC ®

OGC City. GML Standard: Solar Energy Production Potential Analysis • Solar power potential and CO 2 offset potential computed for the 550, 000 buildings in the Berlin 3 D city model. • City Model is based on OGC City. GML Standard OGC ®

Citizen Science OGC ® Copyright © 2016 Open Geospatial Consortium

A Location Standards Framework for Smart Cities • “OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework” – https: //portal. opengeospatial. org/files/? artifact_id=61188 • Influenced by: – Survey of Smart City standards activities across the standards community – SDO work in geospatial, sensors, Io. T, processing, mobile, 3 D city model standards – Survey of community implementations • Goals: – Advance Best Practices for Location Enabled Smart Cities OGC ® OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework

How Does OGC Get All of This Done? • Innovation Program (IP) – a global, innovative, hands-on rapid prototyping and testing program designed to unite users and industry in accelerating interface development and validation, and the delivery of interoperability to the market • Standards Program – Consensus standards process similar to other Industry consortia (World Wide Web Consortium, OMA etc. ). • Compliance Testing and Certification Program – allows organizations that implement an OGC standard to test their implementations with the mandatory elements of that standard • Marketing and Communications Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC specifications, business development, communications programs OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium Rapid Interface Development Standards Setting Testing & Certification Market Adoption

OGC Testbed 13 OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortiumhttp: //www. opengeospatial. org/projects/initiatives/testbe

Smart, Safe and Resilient Cities OGC Future Cities Pilot Phase 1 http: //www. opengeospatial. org/projects/initiatives/fcp 1 OGC • • ® Urban Planning Urban Resilience to Climate Change Aging Adult Social Care Alternative Energy Placement

Emerging: Modeling & Simulation • CDB Candidate Standard out for public comment – “Common Database” broadly used in the marketplace • LTF (Layered Terrain Format – developed by Virtual Heroes) – May get introduced to OGC, perhaps as a Community Standard – Working with Google on Protobuf implementation (Protobuf is like a simpler XML) • Domain Working Group formation anticipated for 2017 OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Emerging: Land Administration DWG • Purpose / Scope: – Examine existing systems of land administration; – Develop best practices regarding standards-based implementations; – Identify potential interoperability experiments, pilots and testbeds to validate interoperable solutions • Emphasis on close coordination with partners in Land Administration – SDOs (ISO, OASIS, W 3 C etc. ) – Associations (RICS, FIG, etc. ) • Open to OGC members and non-members OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Emerging: Marine DWG Bathymetric data and Marine SDIs Safety of navigation Maritime monitoring OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Emerging: Unmanned Systems (Ux. S) • New Domain Working Group proposed • Initially conceived to focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), but scope has been broadened to all types of platforms – Focus will be on autonomous or remotely piloted platforms which acquire data • UAS use cases include: – Exchange of flight plans – Metadata for hobbyist sensors – Lightweight protocols for sensor management – and others…. OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

The Innovator's Dilemma • Tech progress can, and often does, outstrip what markets need • How to succeed – Identify disruptive technologies before they overtake the traditional – Discovery-driven planning • OGC’s Approach – Maintain and adapt current OGC standards while simultaneously addressing market / technology evolution OGC ® – New standards that overlap or diverge can be OK as long as they address new tech needs, and OGC provides harmonization techniques Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Technology Trends – near term actions • Spatial Data on the Web • Power of Location – People who communicate digitally tend to meet in person • Spatial/Temporal Models – 3 D Geo Model creation – Indoor positioning • Big Data & Data Science – APIs for the Web – Linked data • New Geo Sources – Io. T and Sensor Webs – Remote sensing on demand • UAVs and drones • Smallsats • User platforms & Networks – Machine Learning – Modeling, Simulation and Prediction – Uncertainty and Veracity – Immersive Geo – Ambient Services • Software development – Federation, Pub-Sub OGC ® Copyright © 2017 Open Geospatial Consortium

Working to address future needs • Innovation – Increased emphasis on prototyping ideas with user community and developers – Focus on Apps and lightweight standards for developers – Taking industry’s lead -- defacto industry standards as a driver of SDO work – Increased collaboration among SDOs to address the growing complexity – Addressing the Innovator’s Dilemma OGC ®

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