George Percivall's blog

Back in August I published a Q2 2019 update on OGC’s Tech Trends status. This post serves to update what’s changed in the months since its publication.

For the 4th quarter of 2019, these emerging trends were the focus of more attention: Commodity remote sensing and Smallsats; 3D Model Creation; Precise Positioning, and; Spatial Analytics in Python & R. 

Read on to find out how these trends (and more) are impacting the geospatial industry, and how OGC is handling their emergence.

This CTO Update describes technological advances in the previous quarter with a focus on how these advances support the OGC Tech Strategy.

For the 2nd quarter of 2019, these emerging trends were the focus of more attention:
Data Science and Analytics; UAVs and Drones; Edge and Fog Computing; Web of Data (Linked Data, Property Graphs); Digital Twins (Static and Dynamic); and Modeling, Simulation, and Prediction.

OGC’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is responsible for developing OGC’s Technology Strategy and coordinating the strategy across all programs of the Consortium. Currently the main activities of the strategy relate to the OGC Architecture Board (OAB), OGC Technology Forecasting, and the evolution of the OGC Baseline. This column provides an update on those and related activities from the past three months.

This blog highlights several recent innovations in OGC processes: Changes in the OGC Innovation Program; Community Standards in the OGC Standards Program; and Geospatial Trends Tracking by the OGC Architecture Board.

OGC and OGC’s Testbed 11 interoperability initiative, which addressed Urban Climate Resilience, were officially recognized in the December 2014 Fact Sheet about the White House Climate Data Initiative. Also mentioned in that document were GoodCompany Ventures (GCV) and the expansion of Climate Ventures 2.0.

A history of the OGC Interoperability Program was just published the the ISPRS International Journal of GeoInformation (IJGI).  The article was written by the four people who have served as Executive Directors of the program:  Jeff Harrison, Nadine Alameh, Terry Idol and George Percivall.

This is the abstract of the paper: