Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the OGC
3DIM DWG – 3d Information Management Domain Working Group
AECOO – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner and Operator
AGILE – Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe
ANSI – American National Standards Institute
Arch DWG – Architecture Domain Working Group
ARML – Augmented Reality Markup Language
AS – Abstract Specification
ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AUTH ie – Authentication Interoperability Experiment
BMP – Bitmap. A Microsoft Windows image format
BP – Best Practice
CADD or CAD – Computer-aided design and drafting
Cat DWG – OGC Catalog Domain Working Group
Cat SWG – OGC Catalog Revision Standards Working Group
CEN – Comite Europeen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization)
CGDI – Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
CIPI – A 2002 OGC Interoperability Initiative focused on critical infrastructure protection
CITE – OGC Compliance and Interoperability Testing Initiative, the OGC's Compliance Testing Program.
CityGML – OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard
COM – Common Object Model, a Microsoft paradigm to connect components
CORBA – Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CRS – Coordinate Reference System. Also CRS Domain Working Group.
CS – OGC Catalogue Service Interface Standard
CSW – OGC Catalog Service Interface Standard for the Web
CT – OGC Coordinate Transformation Encoding Standard
CT SWG – OGC Coordinate Transformation Standards Working Group
CTL – Compliance Test Language
CUAHSI – Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science
D&I DWG – Defense and Intelligence Domain Working Group
DBF – Data Base File, the Dbase file format
DBMS – Data Base Management System
DCE – Distributed Computing Environment
DCP – Distributed Computing Platform
DEM – Digital Elevation Model
DEMTS – Digital and Electronic Maps Transfer Standard (Russia)
DGIWG – Digital Geospatial Information Working Group
DGN – DesiGN file, the Microstation drawing format
DIGEST – Digital Geographic Exchange Standard
DLG – Digital Line Graph
DLM – Digital Landscape Model
DP – Discussion Paper
DQ DWG – Data Quality Domain Working Group
DS DWG – Decision Support Domain Working Group
DTM – Digital Terrain Model
DWG – Domain Working Group
DXF – Drawing eXchange Format (AutoCAD exchange format)
EA – Enterprise Architecture
EASIG – Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group
ebRIM – OASIS ebXML (OASIS Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language) Registry Information Model. See OGC Catalog ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products.
ebXML RegRep SWG – OGC Standards Working Group developing an an extension to the OASIS ebXML RegRep standard
EC08 Pilot – Empire Challenge 08 Pilot Project
EDM DWG – Emergency & Disaster Management Domain Working Group
EEA – European Environment Agency
EO – Earth Observation
EO2heaven – Earth Observation and Environmental Modelling for the Mitigation of Health Risks
EOSDIS – Earth Observing System Data and Information System
EPSG – European Petroleum Survey GroupEuroSDR European Spatial Data Research Network
ESDI – European Spatial Data Information Infrastructure
ESS DWG - Earth System Science Domain Working Group
EUROGI – European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information
FE or FES – OGC Filter Encoding Standard
GeoAPI – OGC GeoAPI Interface Standard (a Java application programming interface)
GeoRM DWG – Geospatial Rights Management Domain Working Group
GeoSPARQL SWG – GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group (SPARQL is a recursive acronym for the W3C's "SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language")
GEOSS Pilot – Global Earth Observation System of Systems Pilot Project
Geosync SWG – GeoSynchronization 1.0 Standards Working Group
GeoXACML – OGC Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language Standard
GETIS – Geoprocessing networks in a European Territorial Interoperability Study
GITA – Geospatial Information & Technology Association
GLS SWG – Geographic Linkage Service 1.0 Standards Working Group
GML – OGC Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard
GML in JPEG 2000 – OGC standard that defines how GML is used in JPEG 2000 images
GMLJP2 1.1 SWG – GML in JPEG 2000 Standards Working Group
GO – Geospatial Objects (a retired OGC standard)
GPC/GIS – GPC Global Information Solutions
GPS – Global Positioning System
GRSS – IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
GSDI – Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
GSDI Association – Global Spatial Data infrastructure (GSDI) Association
GServRestSWG – GeoServices REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Standards Working Group
HDF – Hierarchical Data Format
HTI – Human Technology Interface
ICS – Information Communities and Semantics
ICT – Information and Communications Technology
IE – Interoperability Experiment
IE3D Portrayal – 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment
IEC – ISO IEC JTC 1/SC 24/WG 8 - Computer graphics, image processing and environmental presentation
IEEE GRSS – IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web)
iEMSs – International Modeling & Software Society Secretariat
IES – Imagery Exploitation Working Group IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force
IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force
IJIS Institute – Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute
ILAF – OGC Iberian and Latin-American Forum
IndoorGML – common schema framework for interoperability between indoor and outdoor navigation applications, being drafted by the OGC IndoorGML Standards Working Group
IP – Depending on context, either Intellectual Property or Interoperability Program
IPR - Intellectual Property Rights
IPTeam – Interoperability Program Team
IS – Implementation Standard
ISO – International Organization for Standardization
ISO IEC JTC 1/SC 24/WG 8 – Computer graphics, image processing and environmental presentation
ISO Technical Committee 204 – Intelligent transport systems
ISO Technical Committee 211 (ISO TC/211) – Geographic information/Geomatics
ISOC – Internet Society
ISPRS – International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ITU – International Telecommunication Union
JAG – Joint Advisory Committee between OGC and ISO TC 211
JPEG – Joint Photographics Group
KML – OGC KML Encoding Standard (formerly Keyhole Markup Language)
LBS – Location Based Services
LEAPS DWG - Law Enforcement and Public Safety Domain Working Group
LOS – Location Organizer Folder
LS DWG – Location Services Domain Working Group
MCP – OGC Marketing & Communications Program
Met Ocean DWG – Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group
MISMO – Mortgage Information Standards Maintenance Organization
MLS DWG - Mobile Location Services Domian Working Group - merger of Mass Market and Location Services DWGs
MMI – OGC`s Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) Phase I (2001)
MPP – OGC`s Military Pilot Project (MPP) (2001)
NCOIC – Net Centric Operations Infrastructure Committee
NetCDF – OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 comprises earlier NetCDF Classic and 64–bit Offset Format standards from UCAR/Unidata.
NGO – Non-Governmental Organization
NIBS – National Institute for Building Standards
NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology
NMA – National Mapping Agency
NRE – Natural Resources and Environment
NSDI – National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NTF – Neutral Transfer Format (in UK)
O&M – OGC Observations and Measurements Encoding Standard
OAB – OGC Architecture Board
OASIS – Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OCAP – OGC Outreach and Community Adoption (now OGC Marketing and Communications)
OGC – Open Geospatial Consortium
OGC Reference Model – a complete set of the OGC's reference models
OGC–A – OGC Austral–Asia
OGC–E – OGC Europe
OGF – Open Grid Forum
OI Demo
OLE/COM – Object Linking and Embedding/Common Object Model (Microsoft)
OLS – OGC Location Services
OMA – Open Mobile Alliance
OMG – Object Management Group
OO – Object Oriented
Open GeoSMS – OGC standard providing an extended Short Messaging Service (SMS) encoding and interface for communicating location content
OpenLS – OGC Open Location Services Interface Standard
OSF – Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products
ORM – OGC Reference Model
OSCRE – Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate
OSDM – Office of Spatial Data Management (Australia)
OSGEO – Open Source Geospatial Foundation
OWS – OGC Web Services
OWSCommon1.2SWG – OWS Common 1.2 SWG
OWScontextSWG – OWS Context SWG
OWSC – OGC Web Services Common
P&P – Policies and Procedures
PC – Planning Committee
PNG – Portable Network Graphic
PubSub SWG – OGC Standards Working Group defining a standard that clearly defines a standard way to enable publish/subscribe functionality for OGC Web Services
PUCK – OGC standard defining a protocol for RS232 and Ethernet connected instruments
RCM – Risk and Crisis Management
RESTful – REpresentational State Transfer programming style
RFC – Request for Comment
RFI – Request for Information
RFP – Request for Proposals (or Participation)
RFT – Request for Technology
RM-ODP – Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing
RPC – Remote Procedure Call
RTD – Research and Technology Development (Europe)
SAA Pilot – Special Activity Airspace Pilot
SANY – Sensors Anywhere Consortium
SCOTS – Standards based Commercial Off-The-Shelf software
SDI – Spatial Data Infrastructure
SDTS – Spatial Data Transfer Standard
SE – Symbology Encoding
SensorML – OGC Sensor Model Language Encoding Standard
SF – Simple Features
SF CORBA – Simple Features CORBA
SF OLE/COM – Simple Features OLE/COM
SFS – OGC Simple Features – SQL Encoding Standard
SIF – Standard Interchange Format
SIG – Special Interest Group
SLD – OGC SLDSE SWG – Styled Layer Descriptor and Symbology Encoding 1.2 Standards Working Group
SLD – Styled Layer Descriptor
SMAC – OGC Strategic Member Advisory Committee
SME – Small or Medium Sized Enterprise
SOA – Services Oriented Architecture
SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol
SOS – OGC Sensor Observation Service Interface Standard
SP – Standards Program
SPS – OGC Sensor Planning Service Interface Standard
SQL – Structured Query Language
SLD – Styled Layer Descriptor Encoding Standard
TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
SVG – Styled Vector Graphics
SWE – OGC Sensor Web Enablement activity
SWE Common – Sensor Web Enablement Common Data Model
SWG – Standards Working Group
TC – Technical Committee
TC P&P – Technical Committee Policies and Procedures
TDWG – Taxonomic Data Working Group
TEAM Engine – Test, Evaluation, And Measurement Engine
TIGER – Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Reference file (US)
TJS – OGC Georeferenced Table Joining Service Encoding Standard
TML – OGC Transducer Markup Language Encoding Standard (retired)
UCAR – University Corporation for Atmospheric Research / National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
UDDI – Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
UML – Unified Modeling Language
Univ DWG – University Domain Working GroupVPF – Vector Product Format (US)
USGIF – US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
VR – Virtual Reality
W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
WaterML 2.0 – OGC Water Markup Language Encoding Standard
WCPS – OGC Web Coverage Processing Service Interface Standard
WCS – OGC Web Coverage Service Interface Standard
WCTS – OGC Web Coordinate Transformation Service Interface Standard
Web3D ConsortiumWfMC – Workflow Management Coalition
WFS – OGC Web Feature Service Interface Standard
WG – Working Group
WMC – OGC Web Map Context Encoding Standard
WMO – World Meteorological Organization
WMS – OGC Web Map Service Interface Standard
WMT – Web Mapping Testbed
WMTS – OGC Web Map Tile Service Interface Standard
WPS – OGC Web Processing Service Interface Standard
WS – Web Services
WSC – OGC Web Service Common Interface Standard
WSDL – Web Services Definition Language
XIMA – XML for Imagery and Map Annotations
XML – eXtensible Markup Language
XSLT – eXtensible Style Sheet Transformation
