Underground Infrastructure Concept Development Study
For more information please contact innovation@ogc.org
This CDS Project is Complete – Pilot is underway
This Underground Concept Development Study (CDS) paved the way for an Underground Pilot. The pilot will lead to verified, standards-based interoperability for ‘smarter’ underground projects in cities around the world
- The Underground CDS Engineering Report is published.
- CDS was input to the Location Powers: Underground event
- A Call for Sponsors of the Pilot phase as been announced.
Also see Bloomberg Businessweek article: Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
CDS Project Overview
The OGC Underground Infrastructure Concept Development Study will lead to improved public safety, project delivery and urban resilience from a secure 3D repository of urban underground infrastructure.
OGC is greatful to the organizations that sponsored the Concept Development Study phase:
- Fund for the City of New York (FCNY)
- Ordnance Survey UK
- Singapore Land Authority
Prior Activities in the Underground Concept Development Study
- Project Initiation – January 2017
- Request for Information (RFI) – February 2017
- Responses to the RFI – March 2017
- Underground CDS Workshop plans – April 2017
- Underground CDS Workshop presentations – April 2017
The OGC Underground Infrastructure Concept Study Engineering Report is now published.
Contact George Percivall OGC (gpercivall at opengeospatial.org) for additional information.
We are seeking sponsors future phases of the Underground Infrastructure project
Underground CDS Workshop – April 2017
Workshop Scope focused on a limited set of topics:
1) Applications and benefits; 2) Utility data models; 3) Underground environment including soils; and 4) Examples of data collection, integration and visualization/analysis.
For the moment, discussion of information security, legal/liability issues, and financial/societal will be handled only as they arise in the focus topics.. The RFI describes the broader scope of the initiative.
Expected outcomes for the workshop
- Identify methods for exchanging data between disparate information models. The emphasis is on comparison of information models to identify common concepts that enable integration and not all inclusive data model that would aim to apply everywhere.
- Review underground information systems that aim to meet the desired Applications and benefits. Identify successes as well as challenges of past and current projects.
- Plan for the next phases of the project including a pilot implementation that advances best practices and open standards to meet the application and benefits.
Workshop Sessions
Monday, April 24th
- 8:30 am – Doors open and coffee
- 9:00 am Session 1 – Opening, Introductions and Project Overview
- Session 2 – Cities with underground projects
- Session 3 – Underground information systems practices
- Session 4 – Underground Data models for integration and data sharing
- 6:00 pm – Group Dinner hosted by GEO.works
Tuesday, April 25th
- 9:00 am Session 5 – Underground Environment data model
- Session 6 – Data collection, curation, integration and visualization/analysis.
- Session 7 – Breakout sessions
- Session 8 – Workshop summary; Planning the Pilot phase
- 4:00 pm – Adjourn
See the Underground Workshop Prospectus for a listing of the presentations by session including topics and times
Workshop Presentations
Session 1 – Opening, Introductions and Overview
Session Chair: Alan Leidner
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1.1 Welcome by FCNY – Alan Leidner and Mary McCormick, FCNY |
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1.2 Underground Project overview and purpose – George Percivall, OGC |
Session 2 – Cities with Underground Projects
Session Chair: George Percivall
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1. New York City Projects – Jim McConnell, NYC OEM and Professor Sean Ahearn, Hunter College (Sewer map – S. Ahearn) |
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2. Underground Geospatial Information Management in Singapore – Siau Yong NG, SLA |
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3. Belgium, the Flanders region – an introduction to KLIP – Jef Daems, Informatie Vlaanderen |
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4. UK Projects – Andy Ryan, Ordnance Survey |
Session 3 – Underground information systems practices
Session Chair: George Percivall
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1. Underground Infrastructure Mapping in Chicago – Eric Bergstrom, HBK Engineering and Boris Tsypin, Accenture |
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2. Underground Infrastructure Mapping: Common 3D asset database – Dave LaShell, Esri |
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3. Underground Infrastructure Mapping and Modeling: Use Cases and Data Models – Robert Mankowski, Bentley |
Session 4 – Underground Data models for integration and data sharing
Session Chair: Carsten Roensdorf
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1. CityGML Utility Network ADE – Scope, Concepts, and Applications – Tatjana Kutzner and Thomas Kolbe, Technical University of Munich – (Video: Underground Utilities in Munich) |
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2. Data models for underground utility networks – Sisi Zlatanova and Ben Gorte, Technical University Delft |
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3. IMKL and INSPIRE – Luc Van Linden, HL Consulting and Liesbeth Rombouts, AGIV |
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4. BSI PAS 256 – Les Guest |
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5. OGC LandInfra / InfraGML Standards for Infrastructure – Paul Scarponcini, Chair OGC Land and Infrastructure Standards Working Group |
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6. ASCE Utility information standards – Phil Meis, Chair of ASCE Committees |
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7. Voxels perspective for Underground Modeling – Ben Gorte and Sisi Zlatanova, Technical University of Delft |
Session 5 – Underground Environment data model
Session Chair: Josh Lieberman
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1. Mapping Underground Soils in New York City – George Deodatis, Columbia University |
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2. Towards a complete subsurface information system – Mickael Beaufils, BRGM |
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3. Underground environmental properties and processes – Carl Watson, BGS |
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4. City Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: a platform approach – Ingeborg Rocker, Dassault |
Session 6 – Data collection, curation, and integration for visualization and analysis.
Session Chair: Josh Lieberman
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1. Utility Rediscovery from Field Investigation to 3D Model/BIM – Lapo Cozzutto, Berenice and Phil Meis, UMS (Videos: GeoFeature, LAX Project |
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2. ‘Ground- truthing’ data from the scanning & sensing technologies – Boris Tsypin, Accenture |
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3. Geophysical techniques to infer underground structures and voids – Albert Boulanger, Columbia University |
Sessions 7 and 8 – Breakout session reports
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Breakout session reports
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Responses to the RFI – March 2017
26 Responses were received to the RFI. Responses came from: US, Europe, Asia; Government, Industry, Academia. Responses will be used to plan the Workshop.
| Accenture | Bentley | BGS |
| Boston City | BRGM | Cesar Quiroga |
| CityGML Chair | Dassault Systemes | Delft University (Vector and Voxel) |
| Dubai Electricity and Water. | EPRI | Erik Stubkjaer |
| Geoweb 3D | HERE | HL Consulting |
| KLIP Informatie Vlaanderen | LandInfra SWG | Les Guest Assoc. |
| Luciad | Robin Danton | Rotterdam City |
| WinCan Europe Ltd | Spacetime Technology | St Paul Minnesota |
| Swiss Water SJIB | Technics Group | Technische Universität München |
| UMS Bernice |
Additional links are added as approved by the responding organization.
Request for Information (RFI) – February 2017
13 February 2017: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting information from interested parties to inform a Concept Development Study (CDS) that will assess the current state and future direction of information standards for modelling, mapping, and managing underground infrastructure.
The CDS will define the scope of a multi-phase underground infrastructure interoperability project. The purpose of the study is to develop an in-depth understanding of all the components necessary to enable infrastructure data interoperability and standards in an underground environment. The CDS is initially focused on the urban landscape, but is extendable. This Request for Information (RFI) is a first step in the CDS process. Any organization with an interest in underground infrastructure is invited to respond to the RFI before 15 March 2017.
Currently, the exchange of underground utility information between infrastructure organizations within the same jurisdiction or in adjacent jurisdictions has been greatly hampered by incompatible and incomplete data. OGC anticipates that this project will make a significant contribution towards facilitating improved information management and secure sharing and collaboration, which should make infrastructure planning, operations & maintenance, and emergency response less costly and time consuming, and more effective.
Instructions for submitting a response are detailed in the RFI, available at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/155
Responses in electronic version can be submitted to the OGC Technology Desk (techdesk@opengeospatial.org), and are invited before 15 March 2017.
Project Initiation – January 2017
Press Release: OGC initiates Phase 1 Development of Interoperability Standards for Underground Infrastructure Data
The Open Geospatial Consortiumhas begun a Concept Development Study on underground spatial modeling and analytics.
- The study is to define the scope of a multi-phase underground infrastructure interoperability project.
- The purpose of the study is to develop an in-depth understanding of all the components necessary to enable infrastructure data interoperability and standards in an underground urban environment.
The underground infrastructure data interoperability project will take two and a half years to complete and will involve the collaboration of many cities, utilities, and engineering and technology companies. Useful and useable insights and techniques will start to emerge during the first year of this initiative.
– Contact: George Percivall, OGC CTO (gpercivall at opengeospatial.org)
