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The Importance of Open Geospatial Standards

(and benefits of participation in the process)

Mark ReichardtPresident & [email protected]+1 301 840-1361

© 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium

www.opengeospatial.org

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Challenge: Information Sharing Across Organizations and Jurisdictional Boundaries

Source: David Rydevik, Thailand Tsunami, 2004

Ability to access, fuse and apply diverse content when and where needed is critical to situational awareness and disaster planning/ response

Source: www.fao.org/docrep/008/ae929e/ae929e03.htm

http://bushfireaid.wikispaces.com/

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Geospatial Interoperability: Essential to AddressSocial, Environmental & Economic Issues

Health

Education & Research Sustainable Development

EnergyConsumer Services Geosciences

Emergency and DisasterMgt / Response

E -Government

Utilities

Logistics &Transport

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OGC/ISO Standards: Standards Baseline for Spatial Data Infrastructure


ISO 19115: MetadataWeb Map Service (WMS) Web Feature Service (WFS)Web Coverage Service (WCS)Web Map ContextStyle Layer Descriptor (SLD)Catalogue (CSW)Geography Markup Language (GML)KMLWeb Processing Service (WPS)

The GeoWeb is enabled by standards:

The Geospatial Web is about the complete integration and use of location at all levels of the internet and the web.

Dr. Carl ReedCTO OGC

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OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards

Enable discovery and tasking of sensor assets, and the access and application of sensor observations for enhanced situational awareness

Sensor Model Language (SensorML)Sensor Planning Service (SPS)Sensor Observation Service (SOS)PUCK

--Complementary Standards--OASIS (alert) standardsIEEE 1451 smart sensor standard

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Source: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Interoperable, Standards-based Community Implementations Worldwide

NSDI - India GeoPortal Map ViewerGeoportal of the Catalonia SDI

Source: onegeology.org

Hundreds of thousands of maps and datasets accessible through thousands of servers running OGC Web Services

Web Map Service (WMS)Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)

Web Feature Service (WFS)Web Coverage Service (WCS)

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Geospatial information via Spatial Data Infrastructures is widely utilized throughout government…

…to support broad national objectives such as economic growth, social cohesion and well-being, and environmental management

4Source: GeoConnections Canada

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New Zealand SDI Cookbook

• Essential standards• Organizational participation in SDI• Accessing and Use of NZ SDI• Licensing

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http://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/default/files/geospatial-office/SDI_Cookbook%20V1-1%20171111_0.pdf

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Open Standards Underpin Spatial Data Infrastructures Worldwide

• Open Standards– Geospatial

• ISO• OGC• Data Content

– Foundational• W3C• OASIS…

• Supported by:– Best Practices– Use Cases

http://www.gsdi.org/gsdicookbookindex

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Governance Strengthened by Standards Policy


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Some of the OGC/ISO Standards Implementers(and OGC members)

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Commercial / Value-Added GeoInformation

Worldwide monitoring and coverage Historical context exploiting pre-event imageryOn-line accessDelivery through SDI common standards

Leveraging OGCFor Crisis Response

Slide Source: DigitalGlobe

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Commercial / Value Added GeoInformationMaritime Awareness Example

Source: ExactEarth,

Piracy prevention and tracking: Mother Ship and Pirated Vessel Tracking

http://www.exactearth.com/products/exactais-geospatial-web-services/

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The OGC At A Glance

Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading development of geospatial standards

• Founded in 1994.

• 470+ members and growing

• 40 standards

• Hundreds of product implementations

• Broad user community implementation worldwide

• Alliances and collaborative activities with SDO’s and professional associations

Commercial41%

Government18%

NGO10%

Research7%

University24%

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Example User Community Members

Example Government Members:– DSTL (UK) - DLR (Germany) - DIGO (Australia) - NGA (USA)

– NOAA (USA) - NASA (USA) - USGS (USA) - USACE / AGC

– DISA (US) - DGIWG (NATO) - EUSC (Europe) - USAF Weather Agency

– NR Canada - MET Offices - DHS (US) - PM-ISE DNI (US)

– European Satellite Centre - Naval MET and Oceanography Command

– Abu Dhabi Police (UAE) - BRGM (France) - Ordnance Survey (UK)

– Norwegian Building Authority - Norkart - Dubai Municipality (UAE)

– Dept Science & Tech. (India) - European Space Agency

– Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Korea)

– UNGIWG

• And over 100 Universities and Research instituteshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members

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The Value / Significance of Standards

Making Location Count.

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Interoperability

• Defined as the ability of diverse data sources, systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate).

• Saves time, reduces cost, increases market choice, protects assets and lives

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• Ease information sharing • Promote information reuse• Reduce duplication of effort• Flexibility to add new capabilities

• Vendor neutral

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Active Domain Working Groups in the OGC Technical Committee

• Earth Systems Science• Hydrology• Meteorology• Oceanography• Aviation• Energy and Utilities• Emergency & Disaster

Management• Defense & Intelligence• Health• Land & Infrastructure

• 3D Information Mgt• Mass Market• Law Enforcement & Public

Safety • Earth Systems Science• University/Research


Bonn, Germany, March 2011

Mountain View CA, USA December 2009

http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg

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Uniting Communities of Interest

Example: Water Resources

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Water Observation – In Situ

Water Quantity Rainfall Soil Water

Water Quality Meteorology Groundwater

Time series data at point locations

Slide source, D. Maidment, University of Texas at Austin

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Every Country Collects These Data

UnitedStates

Australia

Mexico

We needGlobal Water

Data Integration


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OGC/WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group

2008

4-Year International Effort – WaterML2

2009 2010 2011 2012

November 2009

Hydrology Domain Working Group formedOGC at WMO Commission on Hydrology

Technical Meetings Each 3 MonthsFour Interoperability Experiments

(Surface water, groundwater, forecasting)Annual week-long workshops

Involvement by many countries

Acknowledgements: OGC, WMO, GRDC, CUAHSI, BoM, CSIRO, USGS, GSC, Kisters, …….

A time series for one variable at one location


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OGC WaterML

• OGC WaterML 2.0 Standard for data exchange of time series and sample observations– Community wide international

encoding standard – Based on OGC Geography

Markup Language, OGC Observations & Measurements

– Adoption by OGC in 2012– Recommended for WMO

adoption as joint OGC/ISO standard

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OGC® WaterML 2.0: Part 1- Time Series

Editor: Peter Taylor, CSIRO

Submitting Organizations:

Australian BOM NR CanadaCSIRO Kisters AGCUAHSI DeltaresUSGS disyUS NOAA San Diego Super Computer Center

German Federal Institute of HydrologyFederal Waterways Engineering and Research InstituteInternational Office for Water - Sandre

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Goal – Enhanced Local to Global Water Resource Monitoring and Decision Making

Describe a water property over a domain of space and time

• History• Current conditions• Forecasts

SensorWeb

ModelWeb

PrecipitationEvaporation

Soil MoistureStreamflow

GroundwaterReservoirs

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Why Engage with OGC?

• "The OGC process is really working: since OGC engaged with WMO and jointly created the Hydrology Domain Working Group, there has been active and effective work on migrating the CUAHSI WaterML specification and WaterOneFlow services now in use by numerous national and state agencies, to OGC-compliant status (OGC O&M-based WaterML 2.0 and OGC web services). This is happening through two projects facilitated within OGC’s Interoperability Program: the Hydro DWG Groundwater Interoperability Experiment, and the Hydro DWG Surface Water Interoperability Experiment. The global engagement in these developments is impressive. And one of the best parts of it is that CUAHSI no longer has to host the development meetings – OGC is handling that very nicely! The OGC Interoperability Experiment structure and policies provide an open, productive environment for all interested experts, and this has made more progress in the last two years than similar government initiatives have made in 20 years."

• David Maidment,Director, Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin


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Driving Interoperability Solutions

Bringing Together Users and Technology Providers

(to get it right through testing, piloting, experimentation and demonstration)


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Interoperability ProgramEmphasis On Testing and Validation

• Testbeds, Pilots, Experiments & Plugfests– Join technology providers and users in rapid,

hands-on collaborative engineering efforts

– Produce:

Tested and validated draft standards

Industry technology implementations

Architectural recommendations

Live demonstrations to validate utility of standards in user context

– Advance

Research on the use of IT to help solve geospatial interoperability problems

Maturity of interoperable implementations sufficient for organizations to base procurement decisions


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What’s Next?


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Market Reality - Mobile First

• Africa is not just a mobile-first continent -- it’s mobile only

– October 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/04/tech/mobile/africa-mobile-opinion/index.html

• Geospatial services need to consider: “the other end of the spectrum has customers who do not use laptops and computers. They use cell phones and tablets.”

– Ola Rollen, President and CEO, Hexagon ABhttp://issuu.com/geospatialworld/docs/geospatial-world-annual-edition-january-2013


http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/2012-kpcb-internet-trends-yearend-update

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OGC Standards for Mobile


• Points of Interest• Open GeoSMS• OWS Context• 3D Visualization

• GeoPackage• SensorThings• ARML 2 • IndoorGML

Graphic Source:

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GeoPackagethe new universal geodata file format

• GeoPackage is a universal file format for geodata. – open, standards-based, application and platform independent, and

self-describing. – Built on SQLite, so works on any desktop or mobile OS – Connected / disconnected environment use

• GeoPackage - the modern alternative to formats like GeoTIFF, SDTS and vendor specific

• Experience it here: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/geopackage


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Location Data Quality

• Committee of Experts UN GGIM, Report of the Secretariat: Establishment and implementation of standards for the global geospatial information community– …”quality is a key element towards the goal of producing

authoritative/official/credible information as an institutional asset; (ii) in a world of abundant information the communication of quality (metadata) becomes increasingly important; and (iii) an international framework is needed to establish a 'language' of quality”

• OGC Challenge: Develop Location Data Quality standard– Data Quality DWG: surveyed ~1000 Geospatial professionals,

researched ISO specs, reviewed data quality use cases– Need more focus on quality and uncertainty


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An Integrating Force: Smart Cities

• Urban Maps – 3D City Models – Indoor Venue Maps – Interoperability with BIM

• Energy and Utilities management – Smart Energy– Smart Water Management

• Citizen Services – Location-aware municipal services

using open data and standards • Sensor Webs

– Situational awareness from fusion of sensor observations

• Disaster and Emergency Response– Common Operational Picture Source; Thomas Kolbe, Berlin TU

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More OGC Areas of Focus


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United Nations Global Geographic Information ManagementFuture Trends: 5 – 10 Year Vision


• Key trends– Cloud computing– Linked data– Internet of Things– New data creation– Volunteered Geographic Information– Open Standards– Open Source– Legal and Policy – Data standards and policy– Coordination and collaboration– Skills and Training

http://ggim.un.org/docs/meetings/3rd%20UNCE/UN-GGIM-Future-trends.pdf

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OGC’s response to the Innovator’s Dilemma

• Must maintain current OGC standards while simultaneously addressing evolution of technology and markets– Ensure harmonization in OGC standards

• OGC response to the Innovators Dilemma– Extend or adapt the present baseline of standards– New standards that overlap with or diverge from existing standards,

along with guidance to evaluate among options– Harmonization techniques (brokers, facades) for interoperability


Paraphrasing a motion adopted by the OGC Planning Committee, March 2014

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Summary

• Open geospatial standards from OGC and ISO enable interoperability, which in turn improves geospatial information sharing and application

• Good standards & reinforcing policy are promoting benefits in time, cost (and lives) saved, and are helping to future proof IT solutions

• Continued success is dependent on: – Embracing technology change with all its unpredictability

– Advancing standards and best practices to keep pace with change and sustain benefits of interoperability

– Engagement in SDO processes by organizations and individuals across the public and private sectors


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Recommendations

• Influence the requirements and direction of OGC standards and best practices through direct participation with OGC’s membership

• Promote UN scenarios / use cases for consideration in future OGC interoperability testbeds, pilots and experiments

• Use the OGC process, membership and staff resources to keep abreast of emerging trends and requirements

• Leverage the fact that all UN Employees are eligible to participate in OGC based on a unique arrangement with OGC

• Influence OGC policies to support UN system and Member nation interoperability needs


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“Interoperability seems to be about the integration of information. What it’s really about is the coordination of organizational behavior.”

David Schell, OGC Founder and Chairman Emeritus

www.opengeospatial.org

Thank You

United Nations, New York USA,January 2005

United Nations, Bonn GermanyMarch 2011 (Carnival)

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Mark E. ReichardtPresident & [email protected]+1 301 840-1361

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