Discussion Papers
Discussion Papers present topics and technology issues being considered in the Working Groups of the OGC Technical Committee. Discussion Papers serve as a means to advance new topics and promote interoperability concepts within the geospatial industry. These papers do not represent the official position of the Open Geospatial Consortium nor of the OGC Technical Committee. Schemas for some of these documents can be at the Discussion Paper Schema Repository.
| Document Title (click to view/download) | OGC Doc.# | Editor | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 OGC Conceptual Modeling Discussion Paper |
21-041r2 | Sam Meek | 2022 |
| Historically, conceptual modeling was utilized sporadically within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Models were used in OGC standards both informatively and normatively to describe the structure of the information within a standard for a particular domain. As independent standards-development o ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC: Towards Data Cube Interoperability |
21-067 | Ingo Simonis | 2021 |
| Data cubes, multidimensional arrays of data, are used frequently these days, but differences in design, interfaces, and handling of temporal characteristics are causing interoperability challenges for anyone interacting with more than one solution. To address these challenges, the Open Geospatial Co ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Technical Paper on the Standards Landscape for Building Data |
21-037 | Josh Lieberman | 2021 |
| Data about buildings and building structures play roles at scales from neighborhoods to nations in creating, protecting, regulating, and understanding the built environment. This report examines standards which may be useful in defining the structure and content of building data at a national scale, ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Standardizing a Framework for Spatial and Spectral Error Propagation |
20-088 | K. Navulur, M.C. Abrams | 2021 |
| This OGC Discussion Paper presents a proposal that recommends the development of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards that define a framework for location-based service metrics that inform the spatial, spectral, and temporal errors associated with various data sources. This paper discusses cur ...Click to continue reading | |||
 Built environment data standards and their integration: an analysis of IFC, CityGML and LandInfra |
19-091r2 | Thomas Gilbert, Carsten Rönsdorf, Jim Plume, Scott Simmons, Nick Nisbet, Hans-Christoph Gruler, Thom | 2021 |
| Demand for digital representations of built environments is accelerating and can only be satisfied through greater software interoperability and data integration. The objective of the Integrated Digital Built Environment (IDBE) joint working group is to address this challenge by bringing together ex ...Click to continue reading | |||
| An Extension Model to attach Points of Interest into IndoorGML |
20-054r1 | Kyoung-Sook Kim, Jiyeong Lee | 2021 |
| The scope of this discussion paper is to investigate types of Point of Interest (POI) data in indoor space and propose a conceptual model to harmonize the POI information with the IndoorGML core and navigation modules. In particular, this document focuses on the management of spatial (and non-spatia ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Overview of the CoverageJSON format |
16-145 | Jon Blower, Maik Riechert, Bill Roberts | 2020 |
| This Note describes CoverageJSON, a data format for describing "coverage" data in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and provides an overview of its design and capabilities. The primary intended purpose of the format is to enable data transfer between servers and web browsers, to support t ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Publishing and Using Earth Observation Data with the RDF Data Cube and the Discrete Global Grid System |
16-125 | Dmitry Brizhinev, Sam Toyer, Kerry Taylor | 2020 |
| This document describes how dense geospatial raster data can be represented using the W3C RDF Data Cube (QB) ontology [vocab-data-cube] in concert with other popular ontologies including the W3C/OGC Semantic Sensor Network ontology (SSN) [vocab-ssn], the W3C/OGC Time ontology (Time) [owl-time], the ...Click to continue reading | |||
| QB4ST: RDF Data Cube extensions for spatio-temporal components |
16-142 | Rob Atkinson | 2020 |
| This document describes an extension to the existing RDF Data Cube ontology to support specification of key metadata required to interpret spatio-temporal data. The RDF Data Cube defines CodedProperties, which relate to a reference system based on a list of terms, QB4ST provides generalized support ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Body of Knowledge - Version 0.1 - Discussion Paper |
19-077 | Gobe Hobona | 2020 |
| The OGC Body of Knowledge is a structured collection of concepts and related resources that can be found in the OGC library. It is, in effect, a view of explicit knowledge available from the OGC Virtual Knowledge Store and related components such as the OGC Definitions Server and the OGC Glossary of ...Click to continue reading | |||
| CityGML Urban Planning ADE for i-Urban Revitalization |
20-000r1 | Nobuhiro Ishimaru, Chikako Kurokawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Tomohisa Oishi, Kentaro Akahoshi, Tatjana Kutzne | 2020 |
| This OGC Discussion Paper introduces the CityGML Urban Planning Application Domain Extension (ADE) published by the Japanese government for the "i-Urban Revitalization" (i-UR).
The i-UR is an information infrastructure dedicated for urban planning to contribute to data-driven urban develo ...Click to continue reading | |||
| An Experiment to Link Geo-Referenced Multimedia and CityGML Features |
19-090r1 | Ki-Joune Li, Sung-Hwan Kim, Yong-Bok Choi | 2020 |
| In this paper, we present an experiment on linking geo-referenced images and videos with CityGML objects. Data models are proposed with XML schema from two viewpoints: one for linking features in 2D images or videos with 3D CityGML objects and the other for camera FoV (Field of View). In order to va ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Anchor Node Extension in IndoorGML - Seamless Navigation between Indoor and Outdoor Space |
19-004 | Kyoung-Sook Kim, Jiyeong Lee | 2019 |
| This OGC discussion paper provides an extension module of OGC Indoor Geography Markup Language (IndoorGML) for the seamless navigation between indoor and outdoor spaces. The OGC IndoorGML standard has an issue on the data model that affects the connection of indoor and outdoor spaces via an “Ancho ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Proposed OGC GeoPackage Enhancements |
19-047 | Jeff Yutzler | 2019 |
| The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoPackage Encoding Standard was developed for the purpose of providing an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information. GeoPackage has proven to be an effective "container&quo ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Discussion Paper - JSON Encodings for EO Coverages |
19-042r1 | Lewis John McGibbney | 2019 |
| This discussion paper documents and concludes one year (2018-2019) of work undertaken by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Data System Working Group focused on exploring JSON Encodings in Earth Observation Coverages. The primary function of this paper is to ensure ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC CDB, Leveraging GeoPackage Discussion Paper |
18-077r2 | Jay Freeman, Kevin Bentley, Ronald Moore, Samuel Chambers, Glen Quesenberry | 2019 |
| This paper offers the results of research, design, and prototype efforts to present the OGC standards working group an approach to creating “GeoCDB”—a technology mashing of GeoPackage and OGC CDB—as a deterministic repository of easily read data geospatial datasets suitable for storage, runt ...Click to continue reading | |||
| GeoDCAT-AP |
18-001r1 | Lieven Raes, Danny Vandenbroucke, Tomas Reznik | 2019 |
| Improving discoverability of open geo-data and information is vital to increasing the use of these data in- and outside the geospatial expert community.
In this document we start to compare existing metadata standards, e.g., Dublin Core, ISO 19115/57/19, and INSPIRE, in the geospatial- and open da ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC SensorThings API Tasking Core Discussion Paper |
18-056 | Steve Liang, Tania Khalafbeigi, Kan Luo | 2018 |
| This discussion paper offers descriptions and provides JSON examples of TaskingCapabilities and Tasks for the SensorThings Application Programming Interface (API). | |||
| GeoPackage / OWS Context Harmonization Discussion Paper |
18-037r1 | Jeff Yutzler | 2018 |
| This OGC discussion paper presents an approach to harmonize the OGC GeoPackage and OWS Context standards through a set of extensions. GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for storing and transferring geospatial data and information a ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Geospatial Standardization of Distributed Ledger Technologies |
18-041r1 | Gobe Hobona, Bart De Lathouwer | 2018 |
| This discussion paper is organized as follows.
Background: This section introduces DLT and blockchain, as well as the structure of blocks.
Case Studies: This section presents an overview of example projects that use or are studying blockchain within a geospatial context.
Current Standardiza ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension: netCDF |
16-114r2 | Martin Desruisseaux | 2018 |
| The netCDF Moving Features encoding extension is a summary of conventions that supports efficient exchange of simple moving features as binary files. This Discussion Paper is a complement to the Moving Features Encoding Part I: XML Core and an alternative to the Simple Comma Separated Values (CSV) e ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Ensuring Quality of User Experience with OGC Web Mapping Services - Discussion Paper |
17-049 | C. Mitchell, M. Gordon, T. Kralidis | 2018 |
| This paper is intended to identify usability issues associated with use of OGC web
mapping services that affect the quality of experience a user may have when accessing
and using OGC web services and discuss potential solutions and guidance to address
these issues. Additionally, guidance on evalu ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Technical report from the DGIWG Portrayal Technical Panel testing of SLD (1.1.0) for OGC |
17-059 | Lars Schylberg, Lubos Belka | 2017 |
| The DGIWG Portrayal Technical Panel (DPTP) has been investigating how to standardize the portrayal of military context symbology within Web Services. The team sought to use version 1.1.0 of OGC Style Layer Descriptor standard and version 1.1.0 of Symbology Encoding (SLD and SE) standard to achieve t ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Semantic Sensor Network Ontology |
16-079 | Armin Haller, Krzysztof Janowicz, Simon Cox, Danh Le Phuoc, Kerry Taylor, Maxime Lefrançois | 2017 |
| The Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) ontology is an ontology for describing sensors and their observations, the involved procedures, the studied features of interest, the samples used to do so, and the observed properties, as well as actuators. SSN follows a horizontal and vertical modularization archi ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Standardized Information Models to Optimize Exchange, Reusability and Comparability of Citizen Science Data (SWE4CS) |
16-129 | Ingo Simonis, Rob Atkinson | 2017 |
| This discussion paper describes a data model for the standardized exchange of citizen science sampling data. To do that it applies the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) to Citizen Science (SWE4CS). In particular, exposes how Observations and Measurements (O&M) can be used to model the data of the Citi ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Comparing CityGML and IndoorGML based on a use case at Lotte World Mall |
16-012r1 | Ki-Joune Li, Hyung-Gyu Ryu, Hak-Cheol Kim, Jun Hee Lee, Joo-Ho Lee | 2016 |
| This OGC Discussion Paper provides a comparison between the OGC CityGML and IndoorGML standards. The goals and approaches of these two standards are different and they can be used in a complementary way. This discussion paper aims to compare the strengths and weakness of the standards, and explain h ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC® Web Query Service |
14-121r2 | Peter Baumann | 2016 |
| This OGC Web Query Service (WQS) defines a service interface for retrieving any kind of subset of information provided by the server addressed. WQS is com¬pletely agnostic of any semantics and, therefore, not bound to any predefined structures, such as coordinates, fea-tures, coverages, or metadata ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Spatial Data on the Web Use Cases & Requirements |
15-074r2 | Frans Knibbe, Alejandro Llaves | 2016 |
| This document describes use cases that demand a combination of geospatial and non-geospatial data sources and techniques. It underpins the collaborative work of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Groups operated by both W3C and OGC. | |||
| OGC Benefits of Indoor Location - Use Case Survey of Lessons Learned and Expectations |
16-084 | Giuseppe Conti, Fabio Malabocchia, Ki-Joune Li, George Percivall, Kirk Burroughs, Stuart Strickland | 2016 |
| Indoor location technologies are enjoying and increasing market success. Technologies in the market have achieved maturity and have become a key driver for innovation and business activities in several value added scenarios, e.g. e-government services, eHealth, personal mobility, logistics, mobility ...Click to continue reading | |||
| AHA-ML (Active and Healthy Ageing Mark-up Language) an O&M profile - Discussion Paper |
15-116 | Giuseppe Conti, Fabio Roncato | 2016 |
| This document provides a proposal for a new O&M (Observations and Measurements) profile focused on Active and Healthy Ageing, called AHA-ML (Active and Healthy Ageing Mark-up Language) an O&M profile - Discussion Paper). This document introduces the overall need for such a profile and it dis ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Implications for an OGC GeoPackage Symbology Encoding Standard |
15-122r1 | Randolph Gladish | 2016 |
| The GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) presents a discussion of symbology encapsulation for conveying presentation information for vector features contained within in a GeoPackage. | |||
| Use of Geography Markup Language (GML) for Aviation Data |
12-028r1 | OGC Aviation Domain Working Group | 2016 |
| The document provides guidelines for the use of GML and a GML profile description in the
scope of aeronautical data encoding, in particular when using the Aeronautical Information
Exchange Model (AIXM). In the future, the applicability of the guidelines contained in this
document might be enlarge ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Use Cases and Applications of the OGC Moving Features Standard: The Requirements for a Moving Feature API |
15-096 | Akinori Asahara, Hideki Hayashi, Carl Reed | 2016 |
| This OGC Discussion Paper provides examples of some actual and potential geospatial applications using the OGC Moving Features encoding. These applications can be used to define the next steps in the development of the OGC Moving Features Standard: The definition of a “Moving Features API”. As a ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Observations and Measurements – JSON implementation |
15-100r1 | Simon J D Cox, Peter Taylor | 2015 |
| This Discussion Paper specifies a potential OGC Candidate Standard for a JSON implementation of the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements (O&M) conceptual model (OGC Observations and Measurements v2.0 also published as ISO/DIS 19156). This encoding is expected to be useful in RESTful impleme ...Click to continue reading | |||
| A Use-Case for Mobile Location Services with IndoorGML - Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired People |
15-075r1 | Ki-Joune Li, Hyung-Gyu Ryu, Taehoon Kim, and Hack-Cheol Kim | 2015 |
| This OGC Discussion Paper provides a navigation use-case for the use of IndoorGML for mobile location services (MLS). In particular, the Discussion Paper explains how the OGC IndoorGML standard can be applied to a MLS application for visually impaired people in indoor space. Finally, a prototype dev ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Envisioning a Tiled Elevation Extension for the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard |
15-039 | Jeff Yutzler | 2015 |
| The GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) presents a vision for storing tiled gridded elevation data in a GeoPackage. | |||
| OGC GeoPackage Plugfest Discussion Paper |
15-012r2 | Jeff Yutzler | 2015 |
| This OGC discussion paper presents the results of the GeoPackage Plugfest. In this
initiative, participants had the opportunity to evaluate the compliance and interoperability
of software that produces and consumes GeoPackages containing tiled raster data. | |||
| Spatial Data on the Web Use Cases & Requirements |
15-074 | Frans Knibbe, Alejandro Llaves | 2015 |
| This document describes use cases that demand a combination of geospatial and non-geospatial data sources and techniques. It underpins the collaborative work of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Groups operated by both W3C and OGC. | |||
| OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) Temporality Extension |
12-027r3 | Timo Thomas | 2014 |
| This OGC discussion paper provides a proposal for a temporality extension for the WFS
2.0 and FES 2.0 standard. It is based on the work of and experiences made in several
OWS test beds, in particular OWS-7, OWS-8 and OWS-9, Aviation threads and
discussions at the 2011 OGC TC meeting in Brussels, ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC HY_Features: a Common Hydrologic Feature Model |
11-039r3 | Irina Dornblut, Rob Atkinson | 2014 |
| Common semantics support the reference of features to the concept they represent and the integration of data proceed using the semantic framework such mappings provide. However there is no standard conceptual model for hydrologic feature identification. Different models of hydrologic processes, and ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC OpenSearch Extension for Correlated Search |
13-068 | Pedro Gonçalves | 2014 |
| This OGC discussion paper presents an OpenSearch query protocol extension for the
execution of correlation queries between different Search Feeds. Services that support the
OpenSearch Specification and Correlation extension defined in this document are called
OpenSearch Correlation Services. With ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC GeoXACML and XACML Policy Administration Web Service (PAWS) |
13-099 | Jan Herrmann, Andreas Matheus | 2013 |
| This specification defines the interfaces of the OGC (Geo)XACML Policy Administration Web Service (OGC (Geo)XACML PAWS or simply PAWS in the following) that supports the creation, modification, exchange, analysis, testing, transformation, encrypting and signing of XACML and GeoXACML encoded access c ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Geospatial eXensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML) 3.0 Core |
13-100 | Andreas Matheus | 2013 |
| This standard defines the version 3.0 of a geospatial extension to the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Version 3.0 standard. It thereby enables the interoperable definition of access rights / constraints using the XACML 3.0 language, processing model and policy schema but ext ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Geospatial eXensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML) 3.0 GML 3.2.1 Encoding Extension |
13-101 | Andreas Matheus | 2013 |
| This standard defines the version 3.0 of a valid GML 3.2.1 geometry encoding as defined in Geography Markup Language (GML) simple features profile (with Corrigendum) to be used with the GeoXACML 3.0 Core standard.
The use of this encoding extension to GeoXACML 3.0 Core enables the direct use of GML ...Click to continue reading | |||
| WaterML2.0 - part 2: Ratings, Gaugings and Sections Discussion Paper |
13-021r3 | Peter Taylor | 2013 |
| This document describes an information model for exchanging rating tables, or rating
curves, that are used for the conversion of related hydrological phenomenon. It also
describes a model describing the observations that are used to develop such relationships,
often referred to as gauging observa ...Click to continue reading | |||
| NetCDF Uncertainty Conventions NetCDF-U |
11-163 | Lorenzo Bigagli, StefanoNativi | 2013 |
| This Discussion Paperproposes a set of conventions for managing uncertainty information within the netCDF3 data model and format: the NetCDF Uncertainty Conventions (NetCDF-U). | |||
| OGC Standard for Moving Features; Requirements |
12-117r1 | Ryosuke Shibasaki | 2012 |
| Applications using moving feature data, typically on vehicles and pedestrians, have
recently been rapidly increasing. Innovative applications are expected to require the
overlay and integration of moving feature data from different sources to create more
social and business values. Efforts in thi ...Click to continue reading | |||
| WaterML 2.0 - Timeseries - NetCDF Discussion Paper |
12-031r2 | Doug Palmer | 2012 |
| This discussion paper investigates the possible uses of NetCDF as a representation of WaterML timeseries data. The work is largely based on the WaterML 2.0 standard for timeseries, the NetCDF core and extensions standards and the CF-NetCDF and ADCC conventions. | |||
| Web Processing Service Best Practices Discussion Paper wps1.0-best-practice |
12-029 | Bastian Schäffer | 2012 |
| The following document contains best practices for identifying input data formats for the OGC WPS 1.0.0. It was created due to a lack of interoperability between different WPS implementation based on non-standardized input identifiers. | |||
| WS-Agreement Application Profile for OGC Web Services |
11-094 | Bastian Baranski | 2011 |
| This document specifies a) XML schemas for providing functional and non-functional service descriptions of OGC Web Services (OWS), b) an URN namespace for identifying exposed and measurable service properties of OWS and c) a DSL for defining and evaluating service level guarantees. | |||
| OGC® Event Service - Review and Current State |
11-088r1 | Johannes Echterhoff, Thomas Everding | 2011 |
| This Discussion Paper provides information on what has so far been called “Event Service” at OGC.
The presented work is supported by the European Commission through the ESS project (integrated project, contract number 217951) and the GENESIS project (integrated project, contract number 223996) ...Click to continue reading | |||
| *FL Starfish Fungus Language for Sensor Description |
11-058r1 | Ingo Simonis, Chrsitian Malewski | 2011 |
| The Starfish Fungus Language was developed in response to the high number of complaints addressing issues with the OGC standard Sensor Model Language, SensorML. Most complaints circled around the high flexibility of the language in combination with unnecessary abstractions of technical terms, e.g. e ...Click to continue reading | |||
| License-Based Access Control |
11-018 | Rüdiger Gartmann, Bastian Schäffer | 2011 |
| This Discussion Paper proposes model for license-based access control to SOAP services, based on OASIS SAML 2.0. This approach is a potential solution for license-based access control, which requires the possession of a valid license for getting access to a service. Use of digital licenses allow use ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Guidance on the Aviation Metadata Profile |
10-196r1 | OGC Aviation Domain Working Group | 2011 |
| This paper explains how to map the Requirements for Aviation Metadata into a metadata profile. | |||
| Requirements for Aviation Metadata |
10-195 | OGC Aviation Domain Working Group | 2011 |
| This OGC Discussion Paper details the user requirements for metadata in the aviation domain. The requirements are at a high-level. | |||
| Requirements and Space-Event Modeling for Indoor Navigation |
10-191r1 | Claus Nagel, Thomas Becker, Robert Kaden, Ki-Joune Li, Jiyeong Lee, Thomas H. Kolbe | 2010 |
| This OpenGIS® Discussion Paper presents a Multilayered Space-Event Model for indoor navigation which simultaneously addresses route planning, multiple localization methods, navigation contexts, and different locomotion types. The paper contains the corresponding data models as well as their encodin ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Sensor Instance Registry Discussion Paper |
10-171 | Simon Jirka, Daniel Nüst | 2010 |
| This Discussion paper introduces the Sensor Instance Registry (SIR), a web service interface for managing the metadata and status information of sensors. Furthermore this service is capable of automatically harvesting sensor metadata, transforming the collected metadata sets into a data model compat ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Sensor Observable Registry (SOR) Discussion Paper |
09-112r1 | Simon Jirka, Arne Bröring, Daniel Nüst | 2010 |
| This Discussion paper introduces the Sensor Observable Registry (SOR), a web service interface for managing the definitions of phenomena measured by sensors as well as exploring semantic relationships between these phenomena. | |||
| Harmonising Standards for Water Observation Data - Discussion Paper |
09-124r2 | Peter Taylor | 2010 |
| This document investigates the potential for harmonisation of water data standards, with the goal of developing an OGC compliant standard for the exchange of water observation data. The work will be based on OGC‘s Observations and Measurements abstract model [10-004r2] . The goal is to create an O ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Sensor Interface Descriptors |
10-134 | Arne Broering, Stefan Below | 2010 |
| This document presents the Sensor Interface Descriptor (SID) schema that enables the declarative description of sensor interfaces, including the definition of the communication protocol, sensor commands, processing steps and metadata association. This schema is designed as a profile and extension of ...Click to continue reading | |||
| sensorML Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile |
09-163r2 | Frédéric Houbie, Fabian Skivée, Simon Jirka | 2010 |
| This document describes the mapping of description of sensors using SensorML specification 1.0 [OGC 07-000] to an ebRIM structure within an OGCTM Catalogue 2.0.2 (Corrigendum 2 Release) [OGC 07-006r1] implementing the CSW-ebRIM Registry Service – part 1: ebRIM profile of CSW [OGC 07-110r4].
In ad ...Click to continue reading | |||
| SANY Fusion and Modelling Architecture |
10-001 | Stuart E. Middleton | 2010 |
| This document reports the considered SANY best practice for using OGC standards to provide generic fusion processing services. Concrete case studies are documented and a detailed appendix is provided with example of XML request and responses. | |||
| Web View Service Discussion Paper |
09-166r2 | Benjamin Hagedorn | 2010 |
| The Web View Service (WVS) is an extendable, interactive, image-based portrayal service for complex three-dimensional geodata such as 3D landscape and city models. 3D geodata is delivered as finally rendered images. Besides color images, relevant thematic and geometrical information such as object i ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Draft for Candidate OpenGIS® Web 3D Service Interface Standard |
09-104r1 | Arne Schilling, Thomas H. Kolbe | 2010 |
| A Web 3D Service (W3DS) is a portrayal service for three-dimensional geodata, such as landscape models, city models, textured building models, vegetation objects, and street furniture. Geodata is delivered as scenes that are comprised of display elements, optimized for efficient real time rendering ...Click to continue reading | |||
| 3D-Symbology Encoding Discussion Draft |
09-042 | Steffen Neubauer, Alexander Zipf | 2009 |
| This document present an extension of the Symbology Encoding (SE) /Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) specifications into 3D as a separate profile. | |||
| CF-netCDF Encoding Specification |
09-122 | Ben Domenico | 2009 |
| NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a data model for array-oriented scientific data, a freely distributed collection of access libraries implementing support for that data model, and a machine-independent format. Together, the interfaces, libraries, and format support the creation, access, and shar ...Click to continue reading | |||
| GeoRM Role Model |
09-123 | Roland M. Wagner | 2009 |
| The scope of this document is the update and the definition of GeoRM roles as a sub model of the GDI.NRW reference model (process model and architecture model). Key relationships are defined between these roles. | |||
| Grid coverage Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs) |
09-085r2 | Arliss Whiteside | 2009 |
| This document summarizes the types of Coordinate Reference Systems (CRSs) that are recommended for use with grid (including image) coverages. This document specializes Best Practice Paper OGC 09-076r3 “Uses and Summary of Topic 2: Spatial referencing by coordinates” for grid coverages. Topic 2 ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OpenSearch Geospatial Extensions Draft Implementation Standard |
09-084r1 | Jo Walsh, Pedro Gonçalves, Andrew Turner | 2009 |
| The OpenSearch specification originates in a community effort built around Amazon's A9.com. It was intended to allow syndication of search results that could then be aggregated by one large index. The OpenSearch specification is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 li ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Sensor Observable Registry Discussion Paper |
09-112 | Simon Jirka, Arne Bröring | 2009 |
| This Discussion paper introduces the Sensor Observable Registry (SOR), a web service interface for managing the definitions of phenomena measured by sensors as well as exploring semantic relationships between these phenomena. | |||
| Specification of the Sensor Service Architecture (SensorSA) |
09-132r1 | Thomas Usländer (Ed.) | 2009 |
| Specification of a generic service-oriented architecture integrating the access to, the management and the processing of sensor-related information based upon the emerging standards of the Open geospatial Consortium (OGC), and resulting from the requirements analysis of diverse application domains s ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Uses and summary of Topic 2: Spatial referencing by coordinates |
09-076r3 | Arliss Whiteside | 2009 |
| This document first discusses the uses for data sharing, and then provides a brief summary, of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 2: Spatial referencing by coordinates. Topic 2 is almost the same as ISO 19111:2007, but includes some corrections. This document includes some best practices for using Co ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC® Catalogue Services - OWL Application Profile of CSW CAT OWL App4CSW |
09-010 | Kristin Stock | 2009 |
| This document describes an Application Profile for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) [W3C OWL] for CSW. It is intended to define a specification for how ontologies built using RDF and OWL may be included within an OGC CSW catalogue to semantically-enable the catalogue. | |||
| Sensor Web Enablement Application for Debris Flow Monitoring System in Taiwan |
09-082 | Hsu-Chun James Yu, Zhong-Hung Lee, Cai-Fang Ye, Lan-Kun Chung, Yao-Min Fang | 2009 |
| This application document describes:
1) What is a Debris Flow Monitoring System.
2) How SWE implements in Debris Flow Monitoring System.
3) Tutorial for SWE developers.
| |||
| Uncertainty Markup Language (UnCertML) |
08-122r2 | Matthew Williams, Dan Cornford, Lucy Bastin & Edzer Pebesma | 2009 |
| The Uncertainty Markup Language (UncertML) is an XML encoding for the transport and storage of information about uncertain quantities, with emphasis on quantitative representations based on probability theory. | |||
| Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1 extension for CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding WCS CFnetCDF |
09-018 | Ben Domenico, Stefano Nativi | 2009 |
| This extension of the WCS standard specifies an Information Community data model with the related encoding that may optionally be implemented by WCS servers. This extension specification allows clients to evaluate, request and use data encoded in CF-netCDF3 format from a WCS server.
This document i ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Event Pattern Markup Language (EML) |
08-132 | Thomas Everding, Johannes Echterhoff | 2008 |
| The Event Pattern Markup Language (EML) allows one to describe event patterns for event (stream) processing and analysis. It can be used to build multi stage filters for incoming events but also to derive higher information through combining and correlating multiple events. It can be applied on sing ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OpenGIS® Sensor Event Service Interface Specification |
08-133 | Johannes Echterhoff, Thomas Everding | 2008 |
| The Sensor Event Service (SES) provides operations to register sensors at the service application and let clients subscribe for observations available at the service. The service performs filtering of sensor data (streams) based upon the filter criteria defined in these subscriptions. Filters can be ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 KML Engineering Report |
07-124r2 | Chris Holmes | 2008 |
| This Discussion Paper is about the use of KML, an encoding used to express geographic annotation and visualization on existing or future web-based online maps (2d) and earth browsers (3d). KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard. | |||
| Summary of the OGC Web Services, Phase 5 (OWS-5) Interoperability Testbed |
08-073r2 | Jessica Cook, Raj Singh | 2008 |
| The OGC Web Services, Phase 5 (OWS-5) Testbed was an initiative of the OGC Interoperability Program (IP). The primary focus of an IP activity is to collaboratively extend and demonstrate OGC‘s baseline for geospatial interoperability. | |||
| OWS5: OGC Web feature service, core and extensions |
08-079 | John Herring | 2008 |
| This standard specifies the behavior of a service that provides transactions on and access to geographic features in a manner independent of the underlying data store. It specifies discovery operations, query operations and transaction operations. Discovery operations allow the service to be interro ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 WCS JPIP Coverage Subsetting Engineering Report |
07-169 | Steven Keens | 2008 |
| This OGC document represents an OWS-5 SWE thread Engineering Report on sub-setting georeferencable imagery. It discusses how to handle georeferencable imagery in the JPEG2000 format as well as using JPIP within the WCS-T and the SWE set of services. | |||
| OWS 5 Engineering Report: Supporting Georeferenceable Imagery |
08-071 | Mike Botts | 2008 |
| The scope of this document is to capture considerations and recommendations on approaches for supporting georeferenceable imagery within the OGC encodings and web services. Georeferenceable imagery is typically imagery coming from a remote sensor that has not been previously geo-rectified, resampled ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 GeoRM License Broker Discussion Paper |
08-076 | Rüdiger Gartmann | 2008 |
| This document describes a License Broker Service (LB-Service) as specified and implemented in the OWS-5 test bed. The LB-Service provides configurable license models, which may contain configuration parameters to be defined by the licensee. The setting of these parameters affects the actual license ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 GeoProcessing Workflow Architecture Engineering Report |
07-138r1 | Michael Werling | 2008 |
| This OGC® document describes the Workflow Architecture developed in support of Geoprocessing Workflow and Sensor Web Enablement threads of OWS-5. This information includes the overall architecture description, concepts, and issues. It also provides detail on the Conflation Workflow created as an ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 Earth Observation Web Processing Services (WPS) Engineering Report |
08-058r1 | Stefan Falke | 2008 |
| This document serves to describe the use of web processing services and the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) in earth observation (EO) applications. It provides an overview of web processing services and a description of developments related to earth observation implementations of OGC WPS in the OGC ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 Conflation Engineering Report |
07-160r1 | Pete Brennen | 2008 |
| This OGC Engineering Report describes the process of conflation, outlines a framework for conflation and conflation rules services within a service oriented architecture, and describes the implementation of conflation services during the OGC OWS-5 testbed. | |||
| GML 3.2 implementation of XML schemas in 07-000 SensorML CR |
08-127 | Simon Cox | 2008 |
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| OWS-5 CITE Summary Engineering Report |
08-084r1 | Jen Marcus | 2008 |
| This document summarizes work completed in the OWS5 Compliance & Interoperability Test & Evaluation thread. This document is applicable to the OGC Compliance Test Program. | |||
| OWS-5 Considerations for the WCTS Extension of WPS |
08-054r1 | Max Martinez | 2008 |
| This document details considerations for using the WPS specification to define a standard coordinate transformation service. | |||
| OGC OWS-5 Engineering Report on WCPS |
07-166r2 | Peter Baumann | 2008 |
| This document represents the Engineering Report for the WCPS activity within the OWS-5 SWE thread. It summarizes tasks and outcomes. | |||
| OGC® OWS-5 ER: GSIP Schema Processing |
08-078r1 | Clemens Portele | 2008 |
| This OGC® document describes and discusses the OWS-5 enhancements in the process of creating application schemas in support of the NSG from NGA data based on the GEOINT Structure Implementation Profile (GSIP) which has been based on the NSG Application Schema and accompanying NSG Entity Catalog. | |||
| OGC® OWS-5 Engineering Report: Local MSD Implementation Profile (GML 3.2.1) GML Local MSD |
08-077 | Clemens Portele | 2008 |
| This document contains a data content specification for Local Mission Specific Data (MSD) and is based on the GEOINT Structure Implementation Profile (GSIP) developed by the NGA. This document defines the GML 3.2.1 (ISO 19136) encoding requirements for Local MSD. The structure of the document is bas ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Feature Type Catalogue Extension Package for ebRIM (ISO/TS 15000-3) Profile of CSW 2.0 CAT2 AP ebRIM FTC |
07-172r1 | Kristin Stock | 2008 |
| This document describes a Feature Type Catalogue extension package for the OGC® ebRIM (ISO/TS 15000-3) Profile of CSW 2.0 [OGC 05-025r3]. It defines the way an ISO 19110 [ISO 19110:2005] Feature Type Catalogue is included within a Registry, and provides an information model and stored queries for s ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-5 Data View Architecture Engineering Report |
07-163 | David Rosinger, Stan Tillman | 2008 |
| This OGC document presents a summary of the Data View Architecture experiment conducted as part of the Geo-Processing Workflow (GPW) thread in the OWS-5 test bed. The main activities in this experiment were the storage of Data Views in an ebRIM Catalog and the discovery and use of those Data Views b ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC® Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Summary Report |
08-000 | Raj SIngh | 2008 |
| This report summarizes the work performed under the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Pilot. The purpose of this pilot was to test the utility of certain OGC standards, in particular the Geography Markup Language (GML) and Web Feature Service (WFS), in the implementation of a spatial data infr ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC® Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure WFS and GML Best Practices |
08-002 | Peter Rushforth | 2008 |
| This document gives guidelines and recommendations for administrators, users and implementers of Web Feature Services serving Geography Markup Language encoded response documents. | |||
| OGC® Loosely Coupled Synchronization of Geographic Databases in the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Pilot |
08-001 | Raj Singh | 2008 |
| This Discussion Paper documents results from the Interoperability Program CGDI Pilot and describes a suite of services that enable the sharing of geographic information across organizations for the purposes of: geographic database synchronization in support of a spatial data infrastructure; geograph ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS 5 SOAP/WSDL Common Engineering Report |
08-009r1 | Bastian Schaeffer | 2008 |
| This OGC document reports the results achieved in the OWS5 GPW-SOAP/WSDL thread which is focused on creating general recommendations and guidelines for WSDL/SOAP support to existing OGC Web Services. | |||
| FedEO Pilot Engineering Report |
07-152 | Corentin Guillo | 2008 |
| This document was developed during the FedEO - GEO AIP initiative of the OGC. It was contributed by the organizations involved in the Earth Observation and Natural Resources and Environment Domain Working Group (EO/NRE DWG) in the OGC Specification Program. The document describes recommendation for ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Wrapping OGC HTTP-GET/POST Services with SOAP |
07-158 | R | 2008 |
| Discussion of how to wrap OGC HTTP-GET/POST Services with SOAP | |||
| OGC Web Services Summaries |
07-095r2 | Arliss Whiteside | 2007 |
| This document provides brief and consistent summaries of several OGC Web Service interface specifications that serve data. | |||
| Web Coordinate Transformation Service |
07-055r1 | Arliss Whiteside, Markus U. M | 2007 |
| This Discussion Paper describes an interface specification for a web coordinate transformation service that now builds on version 1.1 of the OWS Common Specification [OGC 06-121r3]. All versions of this document specify an | |||
| Compliance Test Engine Interoperability Program Report |
07-012 | Jennifer Marcus, Chuck Morris | 2007 |
| As a work item in the OWS4/Conformance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE) project, Northrop Grumman Information Technology (NGIT) provided an open source web services compliance engine. NGIT refers to this engine as the Test Evaluation And Measurement (TEAM) Engine. It executes script ...Click to continue reading | |||
| GeoDRM Engineering Viewpoint and supporting Architecture |
06-184r2 | Christian Elfers, Roland M. Wagner | 2007 |
| This GeoDRM engineering viewpoint document describes use cases and concepts for GeoDRM, as well as references to distributed computing concepts which are not GeoDRM sensu stricto but are required for any GeoDRM implementation. | |||
| OWS 4 WFS Temporal Investigation |
06-154 | David S. Burggraf, Ron Lake, Darko Androsevic | 2007 |
| The objective of the proposed temporal extensions to the WFS is to enable temporal/geospatial queries using the GML temporal types against GML dynamic features employing either the snapshot or time history model (time slices). | |||
| OGC Web Services Architectural Profile for the NSG |
07-009r3 | Shayne Urbanowski | 2007 |
| The purpose of this document is to generally describe how the various OGC specifications may be used to address the needs of a large enterprise system. It highlights the key elements of the OWS-4 effort as they relate to web service architecture implementation at NGA and in the NSG. The goal is th ...Click to continue reading | |||
| The Specification Model -- Structuring an OGC specification to encourage implementation |
07-056r1 | John Herring, OAB, Architecture WG | 2007 |
| This standard specifies some desirable characteristics of a standards specification that will encourage implementations by minimizing difficulty and optimizing usability and interoperability. | |||
| Feature Styling IPR |
06-140 | Dr. Markus M | 2007 |
| Feature Styling is based on a distributed computational platform that employs a number
of standard interfaces and encodings to allow for flexible, scalable and interoperable
management of symbology (styles and symbols) in the process of producing maps from
different kinds of data, most important ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS4 - Topology Quality Assessment Interoperability Program Report |
07-007r1 | Paul Watson | 2007 |
| This document describes the purpose and function of the Topology Quality Assessment Service developed and deployed within the Geo-processing workflow thread of the OWS4 interoperability testbed. | |||
| Frame image geopositioning metadata GML 3.2 application schema |
07-032 | Arliss Whiteside | 2007 |
| This document specifies a GML 3.2 Application Schema for frame image geopositioning metadata, for XML encoding of the georeferencing coordinate transformation parameters of an unrectified frame image. A frame image is one whose entire two-dimensional extent was collected at one time. A georeferencin ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-4 CSW ebRIM Modelling Guidelines IPR |
06-155 | Tim Wilson, Renato Primavera, Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos | 2007 |
| The OWS-4 CSW ebRIM Modelling Guidelines Interoperability Program Report (IPR) provides guidance for creating a standard methodology for mapping geospatial domain information models to ebRIM [www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/documents/2.0/specs/ebrim.pdf]. It also presents the results of mapping ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Discussions, findings, and use of WPS in OWS-4 |
06-182r1 | Steven Keens | 2007 |
| This document reviews the material discussed during the OWS-4 project, describes the WPS processes deployed in the workflows, and offers suggestions to the OGC to move forward with the WPS. | |||
| CUAHSI WaterML |
07-041r1 | Ilya Zaslavsky, David Valentine, Tim Whiteaker | 2007 |
| This document describes the initial version of the WaterML messaging schema as implemented in version 1 of WaterOneFlow web services. It also lays out strategies for harmonizing WaterML with OGC specifications, the Observations and Measurement specification in particular. | |||
| Local MSD Implementation Profile (GML 3.2.1) |
07-027r1 | Clemens Portele | 2007 |
| This document contains a data content specification for Local Mission Specific Data (MSD) and is based on the GEOINT Structure Implementation Profile (GSIP) developed by the NGA. This document defines the GML 3.2.1 (ISO 19136) encoding requirements for Local MSD. The structure of the document is bas ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OGC Web Services Architecture for CAD GIS and BIM |
07-023r2 | Paul Cote | 2007 |
| This document lists the design principles and requirements for future versions of a potential architecture for integrating workflows and information models from Computer Aided Design and Building Information Modelling with the principles of the OGC Web Services Architecture. | |||
| GeoDDS Mass Market (formerly GeoRSS) Interoperability Program Report |
07-004 | Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos | 2007 |
| This OpenGIS(r) document describes the API for two web services capable of generating several simplified data formats including GeoRSS and the Basic XML Feature Schema
(BXFS).
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| OWS-4 Workflow IPR |
06-187r1 | Steven Keens | 2007 |
| This document examines five workflows discussed during the course of the OWS-4 project. | |||
| Trusted Geo Services IPR |
06-107r1 | Cristian Opincaru | 2007 |
| The OGC Trusted Geo Services Interoperability Program Report (IPR) provides guidance for the exchange of trusted messages between OGC Web Services and clients for these services. It describes a trust model based on the exchange and brokering of security tokens, as proposed by the OASIS WS-Trust spec ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Requirements for some specific simple solid, plane and line geometry types |
07-001r3 | Simon Cox | 2007 |
| This specification describes requirements for specific geometry types, including some simple solids, and planes and lines defined using an implicit parameterization. | |||
| OWS Integrated Client (GeoDSS Client) |
05-116 | Stan Tillman, Jody Garnett | 2007 |
| This Interoperability Program Report (IPR) provides an overview of the general requirements, architecture, and design considerations of | |||
| Geographic information - Rights expression language for geographic information - Part xx: GeoREL |
06-173r2 | John Herring | 2007 |
| This document extends the rights expression language (REL) to encompass the concerns of holders of geographic data and service resources to equally ensure their protection. This allows the geographic information market to operate with minimal constraints derived from need for the protection of inte ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Geospatial Semantic Web Interoperabiltiy Experiment Report |
06-002r1 | Joshua Lieberman | 2006 |
| The Semantic Web seeks to make the meaning as accessible as the material, by enabling connections - which are both logical and (machine) actionable - between concepts which a user presently understands and those which may be new and foreign. The Geospatial Semantic Web extends this capability to bot ...Click to continue reading | |||
| WMS - Proposed Animation Service Extension |
06-045r1 | Eric LaMar | 2006 |
| This document explains how the Web Map Server (WMS 1.0 [1] & 1.1 [2,3]) specification can be extended to allow map animations that move in space over time. It should be read in conjunction with the latest version WMS specification. | |||
| EO Application Profile for CSW 2.0 CAT2 AP EO |
06-079r1 | Marc Gilles | 2006 |
| Explains how Catalogue Services based on the HMA (Heterogeneous Earth Observation Missions Accessibility) Application Profile for the OGC Catalogue Services Specification v2.0.1 [OGC 04-021r3] are organized and implemented for the discovery, retrieval and management of Earth Observation products met ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Access Control & Terms of Use (ToU) "Click-through" IPR Management |
05-111r2 | Roland M. Wagner | 2006 |
| This document demonstrats a number of functional capabilities related to rights management (Terms-of-Use, Authentication, content services) that need to be described and chained. | |||
| Catalog 2.0 Accessibility for OWS3 |
05-084 | Vincent Delfosse | 2006 |
| The OGC Catalog-Web Profile is a complex specification that implies usage of many concepts, such as ressources, metadata, registry, registry information model, harvesting, etc. This document is a user-friendly introduction to these concepts. It will help the understanding of the Catalog specificatio ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS3 GML Topology Investigation |
05-102r1 | David Burggraf, Stan Tillman | 2006 |
| Part 1 of this investigation is conducted by Galdos Systems. In this part, the OWS3 MSD3 geometric description is extended to include a topology encoding as defined by the MSD3 schema. Part 2 (Clause 6.2) of this investigation is conducted by Intergraph Corp. and describes and discusses the impacts ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Schema Maintenance and Tailoring |
05-117 | Clemens Portele | 2006 |
| Description of the schema tailoring process for the application schema development in the decision support services thread (GeoDSS) during the OWS-3 initiative | |||
| GML Performance Investigations by CubeWerx |
05-050 | Craig Bruce | 2006 |
| This report proposes and executes methods to evaluate the performance of the use of the Geography Markup Language (GML) as encoded in various ways. | |||
| OGC Web Services (OWS) 3 UGAS Tool |
05-118 | Clemens Portele, Rafael Renkert | 2006 |
| This document contains a description of the UGAS (UML Application Schema to GML ApplicationSchema conversion) tool development in the decision support services thread (GeoDSS) during the OWS-3 initiative. | |||
| Temporal Standard Recommendations |
06-022r1 | James Resler | 2006 |
| This document summarizes recommendations for extending geospatial standards with regard to time-varying information. These proposals are the result of the National Technology Alliance program called Temporal Evaluation and Assessment (TEA). | |||
| OWS 3 GML Investigations - Performance Experiment by Galdos Systems |
05-101 | David Burggraf | 2006 |
| In this experiment, the retrieval time of GML features from a Web Feature Service (WFS) to a WFS client will be studied by varying certain control parameters including methods of encoding and compression. Four different control parameters including encoding format, data set size, bandwidth, and feat ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS-3 Imagery Workflow Experiments: Enhanced Service Infrastructure Technology Architecture and Standards in the OWS-3 Testbe |
05-140 | Yves Coene | 2006 |
| This document describes the results of an experiment addressing issues relating to the application workflow processing incorporating a variety of OGC specifications. It details the inputs provided to the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) OWS-3 Testbed and the architecture of the testbed related to ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Geo Video Web Service |
05-115 | Joe Lewis | 2006 |
| A GeoVideo Web Service (GVS) is a web service that facilitates the viewing of live and/or archived feeds from video cameras. The feeds may be composed of:
- A video stream
- Textual data in a caption stream (e.g. GPS data, camera states and characteristics, custom XML data, such as SensorMLTML)
- ...Click to continue reading | |||
| GML Point Profile |
05-029r4 | Ron Lake, Carl Reed, George Percivall | 2005 |
| This document defines a profile of the Geography Markup Language (GML) for a point geometry. Attention is drawn to the fact that this is a profile of GML version 3.1.1. | |||
| WMS Change Request: Support for WSDL & SOAP |
04-050r1 | Philippe Duschene, Jerome Sonnet | 2005 |
| This change proposal is an outcome of the Common Architecture thread of the OpenGIS Web Service 2 initiative. The aim is to add support for a standard WSDL description of the WMS interface in version 1.3.1. | |||
| OWS-2 Application Schema Development |
04-100 | Clemens Portele | 2005 |
| The OWS-2 Application Schema Development Discussion Paper describes the process for creating ISO 19109:2005 Application Schemas [http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?c... in UML. It also describes the process used during the OWS-2 Initiative [http://www.o ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS 2 Common Architecture: WSDL SOAP UDDI |
04-060r1 | Jerome Sonnett | 2005 |
| This OGC document reports the work that occurred in the OWS2 Test Bed Common Architecture thread. This thread focused on the use of UDDI/WSDL/SOAP in the OGC Web Services architecture. It also provides guidelines for the use of these technologies. | |||
| Web Image Classification Service (WICS) |
05-017 | Wenli Yang, Arliss Whiteside | 2005 |
| The Web Image Classification Service (WICS) supports classification of digital images. A digital image is composed of pixel values organized into one or more two-dimensional arrays. The two dimensions of an image represent two axes in space based on a spatial coordinate reference system. The dimensi ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Image CRSs for IH4DS |
05-014 | Arliss Whiteside | 2005 |
| This Discussion Paper specifies image coordinate reference system (CRS) definitions designed for possible use by WCTS and WCS servers and clients, initially in the IH4DS thread of the OWS 2 interoperability initiative. This report specifies image CRS definitions suitable for both ungeorectified and ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Imagery Metadata |
05-015 | Barry Schlesinger | 2005 |
| Special XML schemas have been created for individual data sets, based on ISO 19115 and a general schema for the RSE. However, a generalized metadata XML schema should be available where possible; it should not be necessary to create special schemas for each data set. ISO 19139 can serve as such a ge ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Some image geometry models |
04-071 | Arliss Whiteside | 2004 |
| This discussion paper contains the material that is still relevant from Section 6 (or Appendix A) of the previous version 4 (document OGC 99-107) of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 7, titled "The Earth Imagery Case". That version of Topic 7 has now been superseded by a new version with th ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS1.2 Image Handling Design |
04-051 | George Percivall | 2004 |
| Image Handling is a thread in the OGC Web Services 1.2 (OWS1.2). This document defines the system design for Image Handling in OWS1.2. The system design responds to the requirements in OWS 1.2 Image Handling Requirements. The system design specifies two main services: Image Archive Service and Im ...Click to continue reading | |||
| OWS1.2 Image Handling Requirements |
04-052 | Arliss Whiteside | 2004 |
| This document was developed as part of the Image Handling Thread of the OGC Web Services Initiative Phase 1 Thread Set 2 (OWS 1.2). This document specified the requirements for the image handling functions to be supported by draft specifications prepared under that thread. | |||
| Geospatial Portal Reference Architecture |
04-039 | Louis Rose | 2004 |
| This Guide has been developed by the members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. to assist the global geospatial technology community in implementing standards-based geospatial portal solutions that are compatible with Spatial Data Infrastructures in every nation. We offer this document as a re ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Geolinking Service |
04-011r1 | Peter Schut | 2004 |
| A Geolinking Service takes attribute data which refers to spatial features, and joins it to a geospatial dataset, so that it can be mapped by a WMS or used in a GIS. When a Geolinking Service uses data from a GDAS, and serves as a front end to a WMS, it enables real-time mapping of data stored in n ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Geolinked Data Access Service |
04-010r1 | Peter Schut | 2004 |
| A Geolinked Data Access Service (GDAS) provides a way to publish and access data that refers to spatial features (e.g. population data for countries). A GDAS can expose data from non-GIS databases so that it can be manipulated and mapped with the aid of a Geolinking Service. | |||
| OWS Messaging Framework |
03-029 | Stephane Fellah, Steven Keens | 2003 |
| This document defines a messaging framework to conduct communications between the OGC web services. It is independent of any transport protocol and any messaging encoding. By using the framework, the service designer could focus only on the message definitions and messaging flows for every action su ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Web Services Architecture |
03-025 | Josh Lieberman | 2003 |
| Specifies and discusses a common architectural framework for OGC Web Services | |||
| OGC Web Services UDDI Experiment |
03-028 | Josh Lieberman, Lou Reich, Peter Vretanos | 2003 |
| This document lists the design principles, requirements, and experimental results for future versions of a potential OGC - UDDI (Universal Discovery, Description, and Integration) profile of the OGC Catalog Implementation Specification. Specifically, it describes the usage scenarios, workplan, and e ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Service Information Model |
03-026 | Joshua Lieberman | 2003 |
| SIM specifies and discusses a common information model for OGC Web Services, also known variously or in part as service capabilities or service metadata. | |||
| OGC Web Services SOAP Experiment Report |
03-014 | J | 2003 |
| This document will discuss how OWS services can be ported to Web Services and highlight various issues/problems that have been discovered and need further discussion. | |||
| WMS Part 2: XML for Requests using HTTP Post |
02-017r1 | Jeff de La Beaujardiere | 2002 |
| This part of the Web Map Service (WMS) specification applies to those clients and servers which allow operation request encodings that are more complex than those permitted by the basic keyword/value encoding defined in WMS Part 1 [17]. Part 2 only describes the encoding of the request messages usin ...Click to continue reading | |||
| Web Terrain Server |
01-061 | Raj Singh | 2001 |
| The purpose of theWeb Terrain Server (WTS) is to produce perspective views of georeferenced data - typically 3-dimensional coverages. | |||
| XML for Image and map Annotation |
01-019 | John Evans | 2001 |
| Defines an XML vocabulary to encode annotations on imagery, maps, and other geospatial data. This vocabulary draws on the Geography Markup Language (OpenGIS | |||
