2014 05-gwf geo-appathon_ogc_a_trakas

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The OGC and GEO/GEOSS

Dipl.-Geogr. Athina TrakasOGC Director European Services

[email protected]

With input from Bart De Lathouwer.

© 2014 Open Geospatial Consortium – 2

This presentation is about...

● … a few words about the OGC

● … the Architecture Implementation Pilot


Cross-Boundary Information Sharing

Continues to be one of our biggest cha llenges!

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


Improving Knowledge Sharing and Transfer

We are addressing critical issues, that need cooperation:

● Growth in urban centers and coastal areas

● Climate Change, Environmental Monitoring

● Water Resource availability and quality

● Emergency planning,preparedness & response

● Aviation Safety...and many more

http://www.ogcnetwork.net/pub/ogcnetwork/GEOSS/AIP3/index.html


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



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

● „We can't share maps on the Web.“

● „We can't deliver data to different systems easily.“

● „We don't have a common language to speak about our geospatial data or our services.“

● „We can't find and pull together data from our automated sensors.“


OGC Membershttp://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members

● Europe – 202● North America – 176● Asia Pacific – 83● Middle East – 11● South America – 4● Africa – 2


• 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


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


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, …


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

OGC®

GEOSSClearinghouses

GEO Web Portals

GEOSS Common Infrastructure

Components & Services

Standards andInteroperability

Best PracticesWiki

User Requirements

Registries

Main GEOWeb Site Registered Community

Resources

Community Portals

Client Applications

Client Tier

Business Process Tier

CommunityCatalogues

AlertServers

WorkflowManagement

ProcessingServers

Access Tier

GEONETCastProduct AccessServers

Sensor WebServers

Model AccessServers

Test Facility

MediationServers

Engineering Viewpoint - AIP Baseline

OGC®

GEOSSClearinghouses

GEO Web Portals

GEOSS Common Infrastructure

Components & Services

Standards andInteroperability

Best PracticesWiki

User Requirements

Registries

Main GEOWeb Site

CSW WMS

CSW

Registered Community Resources

Community Portals

Client Applications

Client Tier

Business Process Tier

CommunityCatalogues

AlertServers

WorkflowManagement

ProcessingServers

Access Tier

GEONETCastProduct AccessServers

Sensor WebServers

Model AccessServers

Test Facility

MediationServers

CSW WMS CSW W*S

WMS WFS CSW SOS SAS SPS W*S

CSW

WPS

OGC®

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”

http://www.ogcnetwork.net/pub/ogcnetwork/GEOSS/AI_Pilot_Demo/index.html





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

...provide a forum for

discussion of key inter-

operability requirements

and issues (...)


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Domain Working Groupshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg

...provide a forum for

discussion of key inter-

operability requirements

and issues (...)


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 ([email protected])


Thank you for your attention!

Bart de LathouwerDirector Interoperability Program Open Geospatial Consortium

Tel.: +32 3 336 75 47Mobil: +32 497 46 62 41 eMail: [email protected]: http://www.opengeospatial.org

The OGC and its Interoperability Program


→ 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

References

• GEO

– earthobservations.org

• GEO Architecture Implementation Pilot– www.ogcnetwork.net/AIpilot