OGC Staff will present, and be on-hand to answer questions, about our work on Open Standards, Open Data, FAIR Principles, and numerous Projects funded by the European Commission.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to attend and present at the upcoming European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2023 (EGU23), taking place next week, 23-28 April, in Vienna, Austria.

OGC staff will present in various sessions at EGU23, discussing our Members’ and Partners’ work – including several European Commission and Horizon 2020 projects – conducted under OGC’s Collaborative Solutions and Innovation (COSI) Program (formerly the Innovation Program).
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Request Open: April 19, 2023 9:00 am — May 19, 2023 11:59 pm (30 days left)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate Deformation Model Functional Model Abstract Specification Topic and the Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format (GGXF) Standard. Comments are due by May 19, 2023.

These two Standards seek to improve the accuracy and exchange of coordinate references. The Deformation Model Functional Model is a conceptual model proposed as an OGC Abstract Specification Topic to standardize how deformation of the Earth’s surface can be consistently described. The Deformation Model Functional Model leverages the Geodetic data Grid eXchange Format (GGXF), a standardized means to describe regularly gridded geodetic information. GGXF also supports many other geodetic data types, particularly gridded data, supporting transformation of coordinates. Each of these candidate Standards are further described below.

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Online and in-person Code Sprint will support the development and maturation of Open Standards and Projects that use tiles to transfer and represent geospatial information.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers to the OGC Tiling Interfaces Code Sprint, to be held online and in-person from June 12-14, 2023, at the Moonshot Labs of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Participation in the code sprint is free. Registration for in-person participation closes at 5pm EDT on May 10. Registration for remote participation will remain open throughout the code sprint.

An OGC Code Sprint is a collaborative and inclusive event to support the development of new applications and open standards, as well as to enable software developers to focus on projects that implement open geospatial standards.
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New Location Innovation Academy empowers users to improve the accessibility, interoperability, and integration of their geospatial data and services, for free.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Location Innovation Academy – a free online training program based on the knowledge and ideas generated by the European GeoE3 project. A webinar launching the academy is scheduled for April 5; additional webinars will follow.

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Training data plays a fundamental role in Earth Observation (EO) Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML) applications, especially Deep Learning (DL). It is used to train, validate, and test AI/ML models. Understanding the source and applicability of training data allows for better understanding of the results of AI/ML operations.

To maximize the interoperability and re-usability of geospatial training data, the candidate TrainingDML-AI Standard defines a model and encodings consistent with the OGC Standards baseline to exchange and retrieve the training data via the Web.

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Request Open: March 3, 2023 12:00 am — April 14, 2023 11:59 pm (42 days left)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued the Call For Participation (CFP) for the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot 2023. Funding is available. Responses are due by April 14, 2023. A Bidders Q&A Webinar will be held on March 23 at 00:00 UTC, and again on March 24 at 14:00 UTC.

FMSDI 2023 has three parts, each with the goal of making Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures more powerful and user-oriented. Existing data will be used more effectively and new concepts such as Digital Twins will be tested in different areas.

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FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to adopt FlatGeobuf as an official OGC Community Standard. Comments are due by March 13, 2023.

FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that can hold a collection of Simple Features. Because of its simple core design and efficient I/O handling, FlatGeobuf can work well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data. FlatGeobuf is based on flatbuffers.

FlatGeobuf was designed to be: suitable for storing and accessing large volumes of static data; significantly faster than legacy formats; unconstrained by size limitations for contents or metainformation, and; suitable for streaming/random access. No other current format combines good performance and “cloud native” design.

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New SWG will develop an Agriculture Information Model that will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to create an Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group (AIM SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by February 23, 2023.

The purpose of the AIM SWG is to develop, publish and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of information in the Agriculture Domain, with emphasis on the re-use of generic OGC standards as appropriate.

AIM will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange by defining the required data elements, including concepts, properties, and relationships relevant to agriculture applications, as well as their associated semantics/meaning for information exchange.

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