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Domain Working Groups

List of Domain Working Groups Domain Working Groups (DWGs) cover 10 broad domains: Aviation, Built Environment & 3D, Business Intelligence, Defense & Intelligence, Emergency Response...

Completed COSI Initiatives

Below you’ll find an alphabetical list of completed COSI initiatives. Each entry includes a short summary of objectives and activities—and, where applicable, links to outputs....

OGC Forms Climate Resilience Domain Working Group; Schedules Q&A Session for Climate Resilience Pilot

The OGC Climate Resilience DWG will provide an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC...

Five Things Location Tech Can Do Before the Next Pandemic

Article contributed by Jessie Abbate, PhD, Infectious Disease Ecologist, Epidemiologist, and Geospatial Data Scientist at Geomatys – During its March 2021 members meeting, the Health Domain...

Four Location-Focused Themes at the 118th OGC Member Meeting

OGC’s Member Meeting is the center of all things for location information. Happening for almost three decades, the meetings focus on everything from evolving core standards...

Principled and Powerful: Geospatial data for ESG reporting at Location Powers 2022

There was a principled and powerful representation in attendance at OGC’s Location Powers event in London last November. Ordnance Survey hosted the event at the Geovation Hub with 23 speakers over...

The OGC forms working group to advance spatial standards in health domain

4 November 2013 – At the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Technical Committee plenary meeting on 26 September, the Technical Committee approved the charter for a...

European Innovation, Global Impact

OGC's ongoing contributions to European research topics, driven by projects co-funded by the European Commission (EC), cover areas such as data spaces, climate, digital building...

A recap of the 125th OGC Member Meeting, Frascati, Italy

With a theme of "Geospatial in Space" OGC's 125th Member Meeting saw 200+ experts converge on th ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati,...

CLIMOS and a FAIR data-to-information value chain

The “raw data to information” value chain underpinning Climate Resilience Information Systems (CRIS) is only made possible when the FAIR data principles are respected –...

Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructure

Spatial Data is distributed across users, tools, and regions for a variety of purposes via Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), but there are additional economic and...

How’s the weather up there?

One of Canada's oldest government institutions, MSC, is also one to keep up with the times by using the latest technologies in its quest to...

We Remember with fondness the incredible life and contributions of Lance McKee

The OGC family has lost a cherished friend and impassioned supporter of the use of location information and open standards for good. We recently learned...

Has the Edge Dissolved Itself Already? Or is the Edge the new Cloud?

With the growing number of systems and platforms, the number of platform-specific formats and interfaces increases – and interoperability suffers.

A Message from Prashant Shukle on Behalf of the OGC Board of Directors

The Board of the OGC has started to develop a transparent, objective, merit-based process for the next Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

OGC India Forum 2023: Key Highlights from Hyderabad

The OGC India Forum 2023 brought together geospatial experts to discuss and find opportunities to invest and collaborate on open geospatial standards.

Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 Phases 1 & 2

The objective of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 is to accelerate our collective readiness for climate change and their related disasters by enhancing...

Ivan DeLoatch receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

OGC recognizes and celebrates Ivan’s lifetime of service and his steadfast support of geospatial open standards as a component of improved efficiency, governance, and decision-making.The...

Open Science Persistent Demonstrator

The Open Science Persistent Demonstrator (OSPD) is a long-term inter-agency initiative aiming to enable and communicate reproducible Earth Science across global communities of users and...

OGC Seeking Sponsors for its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and Response

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), building on the success and outcomes of the Disaster Resilience Pilot, Disaster Pilot 2021, and subsequent preparatory tasks, is now...

OGC Seeking Information Concerning Regional and International Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure

Survey will help shape the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (FMSDI) Pilot and potential future FMSDI activities to better serve the Marine Communitys needs.Impact...

OGCs 99th Technical and Planning Committee Meetings to be held 20-24 June in Dublin, Ireland

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites you to join us for our 99th Technical & Planning Committee (TC/PC) Meetings - to be hosted by University...

OGC invites you to indulge in a SELFIE: the Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment

SELFIE aims to create a standards-based method to publish and use linked data thats compatible with current web development/W3C best practicesThe Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)...

OGC requests information to guide Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study

RFI aims to gain understanding of the potential of a Disaster SDI in serving local, national, regional, and international stakeholders.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests...

OGC Announces Successful GEOSS Sensor Web Workshop

The great variety of Sensor Web research, implementation and usage in various application domains was reflected in 25 presentations given by workshop participants (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/383).The next...

OGC and ECCMA announce agreement to work together on standards for the identification and description of real property

The mission of the workgroup is real property data content standardization and seeks to foster the adoption of standards published by the organizations.Quality data as...

OGC announces a new standard that improves the way information is referenced to the earth

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification - Topic 21 [OGC 15-104r5].The...

Scott Serich appointed OGC Director, Interoperability Programs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Dr. Scott Serich as Director, Interoperability Programs.Dr. Serich will support OGC’s participation in the Project...

OGC is seeking data and services for Testbed 13’s mass migration scenario

OGC Testbed 13 participants will implement services, access data, and demonstrate capabilities using the services and data identified during this RFI.The overarching theme for Testbed...