netCDF-LD provides the encoding standard for encoding linked data semantics into netCDF files and interpreting netCDF files as RDF graphs, enhancing data findability and re-use.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files Standard (netCDF-LD). NetCDF-LD is an approach for constructing Linked Data descriptions using the metadata and structures found in netCDF files. Comments are due by June 24, 2022.

NetCDF is a format for encoding array-oriented scientific data, particularly in many Earth & Space Science domains. It is common practice to aid interoperability of netCDF files in the Earth sciences by using the Climate and Forecasting (CF) convention and also the Attribute Convention for Data Discovery (ACDD). Several communities are defining additional netCDF conventions for describing the semantics relating to their different domains. As the concurrent use of multiple – and possibly clashing or conflicting – netCDF conventions spreads, the problem of finding a common mechanism to validate and interpret metadata embedded inside netCDF files grows. The candidate netCDF-LD Standard offers a solution to that problem.

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FMSDI-22 aims to better integrate geospatial data to measure, analyze, predict, and visualize the impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to a Call for Participation for Phase 3 of the Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot (FMSDI-22). Funding is available. The deadline for responses is 19 June, 2022.

Building on previous work, the FMSDI-22 Pilot aims to examine challenges and potential opportunities for coastal communities, ecosystems, and economic activities in the Arctic. Climate Change plays an important role in this context: as conditions change, so do the available data and services.

Together with sponsoring organizations and international bodies IHO and UN-GGIM, selected Pilot Participants will receive funding to explore the current status of distributed land and marine data services for marine and coastal environments in the Arctic.

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The publicly available reports document the latest advances in Sensor Integration, Moving Features, Data-centric Security, Geospatial Cloud-Native Formats, and Interoperability Through APIs.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published the outcomes of 2021’s biggest research and development initiative, Testbed-17. The key outcomes, including detailed Engineering Reports, overview presentations, and videos, are freely available on the Testbed-17 webpage.

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3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on a proposed update to the 3D Tiles Community Standard, which is used for sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile – and now metaverse – applications. Comments are due by 25 May, 2022.

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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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