Active Initiatives

The OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program’s (COSI’s) aim is to solve the biggest challenges in location. Together, we are exploring the future of climate, disasters, defense and intelligence, and more.

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18 Initiatives

Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot: Data Integration at the Land-Sea Interface

Where the sea meets the land, data, relationships and modeling concepts from two communities collide. Nevertheless, many scenarios require seamless, reliable and consistent integration of…

National Spatial Data Infrastructure Modernization Project

The US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has worked collaboratively with the Federal geospatial community, the National Geospatial Advisory Committee, stakeholders at the State and…

Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 Phases 1 & 2

The objective of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024 is to accelerate our collective readiness for climate change and their related disasters by enhancing the value chain that transforms raw data to climate and disaster information, for the benefit of decision makers.

ILIAD – Digital Twin of the Ocean

Digital Twin of the Ocean builds a federated, multidimensional representation of the maritime and oceanic ecosystem. The initiative covers the value chain from the smart IoT, satellite Earth Observations, and Citizen Science data to decision-ready information and knowledge. OGC is involved in the standards-based DTO data management APIs definition built on the OGC APIs framework and semantic interoperability of the APIs, Citizen Science, and thematic domains. Finally, we are leading standardization and best practice tasks to enable building the solution in the ecosystem of the Digital Twin of the Earth

OGC Testbed-20

Advancing the Foundations of Interoperability About OGC Testbeds As the largest Research & Development (R&D) Initiatives conducted under OGC’s COSI Program, OGC Testbeds exist at…

OGC Urban Digital Twins Interoperability Pilot

With over half the global population residing in cities, advances in urban planning and management are crucial for healthier, more sustainable, and more inclusive urban…

Open Science Persistent Demonstrator

The Open Science Persistent Demonstrator (OSPD) is a long-term inter-agency initiative aiming to enable and communicate reproducible Earth Science across global communities of users and amplify inter-agency Earth Observation mission data, tools, and infrastructures.

Water Quality Interoperability Experiment

This Interoperability Experiment (WQ IE) will advance the development of the WaterML 2.0 suite of standards in the area of water quality data. The WQ IE will test interoperability and interconnection of existing Water Quality Data Systems. The participants will identify how to support WaterML 2.0 development in the domain of Water Quality (WQ).

Geotech IE

This project aims to contribute to improving GIS – BIM continuity. Among other things, the project organizers aim to exploit the standardization resources already available from the OGC and other organizations as an input for OpenBIM resources. This work is illustrated by geotechnical data.

InCASE

Temperature measurements in the Alps, air quality measurements in Rome or soil investigations on the Polish coast: current data are measured and recorded almost everywhere….

DIS4SME

Anyone can learn intereoperability – Dis4SME will help! Data can be exchanged seamlessly between different systems or applications without any difficulties or ambiguities. This is…

CLINT – Climate Intelligence

The main objective of CLINT is the development of an Artificial Intelligence framework (Climate Intelligence) composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation and attribution of Extreme Events, including tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, and extreme droughts, along with compound events and concurrent extremes (see Box 1). The CLINT AI framework will also cover the quantification of the EE impacts on a variety of socio-economic sectors under historical, forecasted and projected climate conditions, and across different spatial scales, from the whole European to the local scale, ultimately developing innovative and sectorial AI-enhanced Climate Services. Finally, these services will be operationalized into Web Processing Services, according to most advanced open data and software standards by Climate Services Information Systems, and into a Demonstrator to facilitate the uptake of project results by public and private entities for research and Climate Services development.

ACCORD

ACCORD will develop a semantic framework for European digital building permitting processes, regulations, data and tools. This
framework will drive rule formalization and integration of existing compliance tools as microservices. Solutions and tools are to be
developed, providing consistency, interoperability and reliability with national regulatory frameworks, processes and standards. The
solutions are implemented and demonstrated across construction projects in various EU regulatory contexts: UK, Finland, Estonia,
Germany and Spain.

CHEK

‘Change toolkit for digital building permit’ (CHEK) will enable the development and uptake of digital methods and tools for building permits, based on standardised and integrated city and building digital data.
A toolkit to support the shift from the traditional paper-based process to a digital one will be provided, considering the different issues related to digitalisation. Standard-based information requirements proposal and templates will be developed for Building Information Models (BIM) and (3D) geoinformation. A modular web APIs-based architecture for managing and processing software will be developed and tested. A roadmap for change within institutions will be developed and supported. Finally, a suitable training will be developed to foster the upskilling of involved operators to the use of the new interoperable digital solutions. The results will be developed and demonstrated in Italy, Portugal and Czech Republic as well as in further interested municipalities involved in the Advisory Board or CHEK community. Modularity and standardisation of solutions will enable replicability in any country and context.

CLIMOS

CLIMOS aims to assist mitigation of climate- and climate change-induced emergence, transmission and spread of vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens based on Eco-health and One Health approaches. This will be achieved by quantifying climate and environmental-related drivers of sand fly vector populations and the sand fly-borne diseases (SFBDs) across Europe. The project will provide an Early Warning System (EWS) and decision support frameworks for more accurate climate and health modelling, prognosis of infection risk and range expansions, and adaptation options. Socio-economic analysis and risk assessments will inform decision
support providing social and cost-benefit evaluations. Towards these goals, an open access interactive CLIMOS online platform will be developed containing data on vector and SFBD species geography and up-to-date monitoring, climate, environment, and mathematical algorithms. The accompanying educational platform will enable evidence-based mitigation decision-making by social, environmental and financial stakeholders, public bodies and policy makers.

USAGE

The Horizon Europe USAGE project (Urban Data Space for Green Deal) aims at providing solutions and mechanisms for making city-level environmental and climate data available to everyone based on FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data). USAGE will support the implementation of the European strategy for data and various European Green Deal priority actions at the level where climate change is mostly felt: urban areas.

All Data for Green Deal

The project will work towards solutions supporting the generation and test of a data space for green deal related use cases, such as air quality, biodiversity and climate changes. OGC standards will be essential to support interoperability and FAIR solutions.

IDBE Pilot

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), supported by buildingSMART International (bSI), invites interested organizations to sponsor an OGC Innovation Program initiative that explores the current state-of-the-art in geospatial and BIM data integration based on meaningful real-world use cases. Both communities build on different data modeling approaches with respect to fundamental concepts, semantics, access, level-of-detail, and several other aspects.

Completed Initiatives