Innovation

The OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program (COSI) aims to solve the biggest challenges in location. Explore Geospatial with our team of experts and your leading products and capabilities. We work in partnership with governments and industry across the world and fund our members to solve problems. One membership. Countless opportunities. See the full list of OGC active initiatives here.

What does COSI do?

Contribute to innovative technologies

OGC Members gain access to the Consortium’s adaptive, inclusive, well-balanced, and trusted programs & processes that have created a powerful and highly valued ecosystem of technological innovation undominated by a single industry or organization.

Meet with other experts to share knowledge

OGC’s quarterly Member Meetings are attended by the world’s foremost experts in location-based information technologies, and provide a neutral ground where even competitors work together to solve shared problems.

Join, sponsor, and participate in our Initiatives

See the full list of OGC active initiatives here. Participate now.

100+

Completed Projects

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Active Initiatives

1.8M

Redistributed to OGC members

Climate Resilience Pilot

The objective of this pilot is to accelerate our collective readiness for accessing, fusing and analyzing data from the climate change modeling community with earth observation and social science data to contribute to the global push for achieving climate resilience. Our goal is to develop a reliable foundation for decision ready data services for climate change adaptation actions. For this purpose, OGC members engaged in this pilot will develop a series of demonstrators that show the integration and combined exploitation of climate data, EO data, and data from the social sciences.

Disaster Pilot 2023

OGC Disaster Pilot: Apply spatial data sharing standards together with Web technologies and cloud computing so that the responsible stakeholders can work together wherever they are located, use relevant data wherever they are stored, and manage every phase of a disaster at any scale wherever it threatens. In a global, cloud-scale disaster information ecosystem, awareness of threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts can be fostered and shared through joint development of workflow recipes that integrate and transform analysis-ready observation and prediction data (ARD) into decision ready indicators (DRI). Indicator workflows, ready to run and adaptable to each situation, provide the guidance that the right people at the right time in the right place need to make decisions, take actions, and improve disaster outcomes.

OGC Testbed-19

OGC Testbeds are OGC’s largest Collaborative Solution and Innovation (COSI) Program initiatives The COSI Program is formerly known as the Innovation Program. Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-Usable. Additionally, testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.

Learn more about our initiatives

Our initiatives

Our initiatives promote rapid prototyping, testing, and validation of technologies, such as location standards or architectures. Within an initiative, OGC Members test and validate draft specifications to address geospatial interoperability requirements in real-world scenarios, business cases, and applied research topics.

This approach not only encourages rapid technology development, but also determines the technology maturity of potential solutions and increases the technology adoption in the marketplace.

Become an OGC COSI Initiative Sponsor and…

Reduce technology risk through accelerating the development, testing, and acceptance of interoperability standards
Stay on top of trends and showing leadership in their domain
Expand the market through industry adoption of new standards and best practices
Mobilize new technologies based on real-world experience
Participate in a cost-effective method to share expertise and development
Engage world-class experts to develop a solution to your geospatial challenges
Consult international perspectives when solving your challenge

Become a Participant

Become an OGC COSI Initiative participant and…

Access to funded research & development
Reduced development costs, risks, and lead-time of new products or solutions
Close relationships with potential customers
First-to-market competitive advantage on the latest geospatial innovations
Influence on the development of global standards
Partnership opportunities within our community of experts
Broader market reach via the recognition that OGC standards bring

Become a Consultant

To best support the technical architecture and management of these initiatives, the OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program relies on a Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program Pool. The Pool is a set of world-wide OGC member experts in various domains that have been pre-qualified to support future OGC initiatives.

Learn more about the Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program Pool