OGC Testbed-18 will pave the way towards new levels of interoperability in areas as diverse as New Space, Machine Learning, Open Science, and Building Energy.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to a Call for Participation (CFP) for OGC’s Testbed-18 Innovation Initiative, a collaborative effort to rapidly prototype, design, develop and test solutions to location-related problems. Responses are due by March 17th, 2022.

The Testbed-18 initiative will explore six tasks, including advanced Spatial Data Interoperability for Building Energy; Secure, Asynchronous Catalogs; Identifiers for Reproducible Science; Moving Features and Sensor Integration; 3D+ Data Standards and Streaming; and Machine Learning Training Data.

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Latest revision to the Standards Guide provides recommendations on standards and good practices that ensure that the growing wealth of geospatial data and technologies can be shared, maintained, integrated, and applied.

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The document outlines the implementation, packaging, and deployment of cross-cloud EO Applications – A step forward for greater efficiency and bringing the ‘user to the data.’

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published Best Practice for Earth Observation Application Package. The new OGC Best Practice is a guide for developers that wish to package and deploy Earth Observation (EO) Applications for a selected Exploitation Platform.

An EO Exploitation Platform is a collaborative virtual work environment that provides, through one coherent set of standard interfaces, the mechanisms to deliver applications and access the EO data, and the ICT resources required to work with them. For an overview of the concept, and OGC’s contributions to it, see the article published in GeoConnexion Magazine entitled An app store for Big Data by OGC’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Dr. Ingo Simonis.

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The Geotech IE will ensure that geotechnical engineering data can seamlessly move between GIS and BIM environments in support of engineering and infrastructure projects.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Geotech Interoperability Experiment (IE). Proposal submissions close on February 10, 2022.

The goal of the Geotech IE is to ensure that geotechnical engineering data can seamlessly move between GIS and BIM environments to support engineering and infrastructure projects that rely upon those technologies. The IE will leverage OGC and buildingSMART International (bSI) Standards.

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OGC API – Common – Part 2: Geospatial Data provides a common connection between the API landing page (defined by Part 1) and resource-specific details.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the OGC API – Common – Part 2: Geospatial Data Candidate Standard. The purpose of OGC API – Common – Part 2: Geospatial Data is to provide a common connection between the API landing page and resource-specific details. Comments are due by January 5, 2022.

OGC APIs are OGC’s Building Blocks for Location, and are ushering in a new age for location information on the web by enabling a much simpler, consistent, and familiar way to share and access location information. Through the OGC APIs, the OGC community is improving how location information can be integrated: by any developer, with any other type of information, and into any type of application.

OGC API – Common serves as a foundation upon which all OGC APIs can be built. OGC API – Common – Part 1: Core defines the resources and access mechanisms which are useful for a client seeking to understand the offerings and capabilities of an API. OGC API – Common – Part 2: Geospatial Data builds on Part 1 by providing a common connection between the API landing page and geospatial data collections.

Geospatial data is rarely considered as a single entity. Feature Collections, Coverages, Data Sets, etc. are all aggregations of Spatial or Temporal ‘Things’. It stands to reason that an OGC Web API would also expose its holdings as aggregates of spatial resources. The purpose of the OGC API – Common – Part 2 Standard, then, is to provide a means of organizing these aggregate collections and to define operations for the discovery and selection of individual collections.

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The OGC FMSDI Pilot will develop a federation of MPA datasets; assess current marine standards and data; and design a maturity model and roadmap for Marine SDI development.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) released the Call For Participation (CFP) in early November to solicit proposals for funded participation in the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot (FMSDI). This is a reminder that responses are due by December 10, 2021.

The Pilot consists of three segments of focus: developing a federation of S-122 Standard Marine Protected Area (MPA) data sets; exploring the data fidelity, mobility, and versatility of S-100 Product Specification as well as other marine standards and data; and designing a UNGGIM-IGIF derived Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (IGIF-MSDI) maturity model that provides a roadmap for MSDI development.

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Under the MoU, OGC will connect with T-REX Geospatial startups to conduct GEOINT-focused research, development, training, and Innovation activities.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Technology Entrepreneurship Center (T-REX) in St. Louis, MO, have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the state of GEOINT tradecraft and technology.

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New OGC Pilot will accelerate our collective readiness for accessing, fusing, and analyzing climate and non-climate data to contribute to the global push for achieving climate resilience.

The Open Geospatial Consortium is offering sponsorship opportunities to support the OGC Climate Change Services Pilot 2022 (CCS 2022). The objective of the Pilot is to accelerate our collective readiness for accessing, fusing, and analyzing climate and non-climate data to contribute to the global push for achieving climate resilience. Responses are due by December 31st, 2021.

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Update to a fundamental OGC/ISO standard brings geometric calculations of distance and area, as well as support for web scripting languages with dynamic features.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on an update to the Simple Features Standard. Comments are due by August 26, 2021.

Simple Features, OGC’s earliest standard and jointly published with ISO, describes how a user can model the location of “features” (a geometric representation of anything of interest) in a 2-dimensional space representing the surface of a planet as a geoid and any globe or map derived through a projection.

In technical terms, Simple Features can model geometries which display geographic features of 1-dimension (curves) and 2-dimension (areas) defined by one-dimension boundary curves. If the application requires elevation, then the uses of latitude (φ), longitude (λ) and elevation (h) can be added.

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