Completed Initiatives

OGC Testbed-19

Testbed-19 provides an outstanding opportunity to engage with and lead the latest research on geospatial system design, concept development, and rapid prototyping. The Initiative provides a business opportunity for stakeholders to mutually define, refine, and evolve service interfaces and protocols in the context of hands-on experience and feedback. By participating in Testbed-19, you will shape the future of geospatial software development and data publication.

Finish date: January 17, 2024

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.

Finish date: December 22, 2023

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.

Finish date: May 9, 2023

Disaster Pilot 2021

OGC Disaster Pilot: Online and Offline Data Availability for First Responders prototyped provision of earth observation, health, and other critical data to field personnel and first responders during an emergency, leveraging multiple sources of earth observation data through hybrid EO exploitation cloud platforms, provisioning field personnel with GeoPackage data containers and GeoPackage viewers in both online and offline modes, and keeping both relief personnel and the public informed through web search optimization of disaster-relevant information.

Finish date: March 11, 2023

OGC Testbed-18

OGC Testbeds are OGC’s largest Innovation Program initiatives. Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-Usable. Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.

Finish date: January 19, 2023

CYBELE

CYBELE develops large scale HPC-enabled test beds in the domain of agri-food and delivers a distributed big data management architecture and a data management strategy for Precision Agriculture and Precision Lifestock Farming. OGC primarily supports the CYBELE Common Semantic Data Model design and standardization activities. CYBELE is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825355.

Finish date: July 4, 2022

Routing Pilot Sprint

The goal is to finalize the Routes – Part 1: Core and the Route Exchange Model candidate standards and develop 3 implementations of each standard. These should prove out the existing documentation from the Routing SWG, and address issues and future works. Everything in the Sprint should be documented in the GitHub repository.

Finish date: January 31, 2022

Federated Marine SDI Phase 3

The third phase of the Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot focuses on land/sea use cases. It extends the use cases developed in the second phase to add the Arctic region as a new location to the demonstration scenarios. Its overreaching scenario will demonstrate the technology and data used with OGC, IHO, and other community standards in response to a grounding event and the evacuation of a cruise ship or research vessel in the Arctic.

Finish date: January 21, 2022

Federated Marine SDI

The Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot will show how Marine SDI can unlock valuable data and information for more than the traditional providers and consumers of hydrographic data. Specifically, the Pilot will include one or more land/sea interface scenarios in order to demonstrate how federated Marine SDI can provide simple, secure access across borders and domains, and improve the connections between terrestrial and marine foundational communities.

Finish date: April 22, 2021

Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment (SELFIE)

Building on the content-focused outcomes of the first ELFIE, the Second ELFIE (SELFIE) is designing and vetting Web-resource model and network behavior for cross-domain linked feature data that compliments and uses WFS3 as a building block.

Finish date: April 21, 2021

Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Year 2

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), through its Innovation Program, is advancing geospatial interoperability of systems exchanging 3D content. OGC is working with the Khronos Group and various OGC Working Groups to advance interoperability of 3D geospatial and computer graphics using OGC CDB, Khronos glTF, and related 3D standards. Prototyping work is advancing interoperability for Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination, as well as open standard interfaces critical to enabling novel combinations of emerging technologies to bridge Special Operations Forces (SOF) capability gaps.

Finish date: September 21, 2021

Data Cube Interoperability

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 Consortium (OGC) and the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) invited global data cube experts to discuss state-of-the-art and way forward at the “Towards Data Cube Interoperability” workshop.

Finish date: August 31, 2021

Modernizing SDI: Data Interoperability for Cumulative Effects CDS

The goal of the Concept Development Study (CDS) is to answer the primary question “How can an ocean of environmental, foundational/framework, biological, socio economic and other data, from multiple different sources, and with varying levels of standardization, be readily consumed and integrated by scientists and citizens alike with a specific focus on cumulative effects?”

Finish date: June 1, 2021

Building Energy Mapping and Analytics CDS

Concept Development Study investigating the broad state of development of energy mapping and analytics in building stock as well as delineating architecture and standards to enable mapping and analytics of residential energy use efficiency

Finish date: May 31, 2021

OGC Testbed-16

The OGC Testbed is an annual research and development program that explores geospatial technology from various angles. It takes the OGC Baseline into account, though at the same time allows to explore selected aspects with a fresh pair of eyes. Testbed-16 evaluates the maturity of the Earth Observation Cloud Architecture that has been developed over the last two years as part of various OGC Innovation Program initiatives in a real world environment.

Finish date: March 31, 2021

NextGEOSS

The main general objectives for NextGEOSS are to 1) Deliver the next generation data hub and Earth Observation exploitation for innovation and business; 2) Engage communities, promoting innovative GEOSS powered applications from Europe; and 3) Advocate GEOSS as a sustainable European approach for Earth Observation data distribution and exploitation.
NextGEOSS is a European contribution to GEOSS

Finish date: November 30, 2020

OGC UML-to-GML Application Schema Pilot 2020 (UGAS-2020)

The goal of this Pilot is to advance the state-of-the-art in UML-to-GML Application Schema (UGAS) transformations and related technologies.

Finish date: December 31, 2020

3D IoT Platform for Smart Cities Pilot

Advance the use of open standards for integrating environmental, building, and IoT data in Smart Cities. Better understand the capabilities to be supported by a 3D IoT Smart City Platform under CityGML, IndoorGML, and SensorThings API. Scenarios being explored include real-time monitoring of micro-dust and indoor occupancy.

Finish date: November 30, 2020

SWIM Discovery Service Workshop

This Workshop was used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to solicit feedback from the OGC technical community on the SWIM Discovery Service (SDS) Implementation Specification. This specification describes the enabling technologies and practices that support service discovery among independently developed and autonomously managed discovery mechanisms. The specification is designed to work specifically to improve service discovery across SWIM environments and to improve inter-SWIM interoperability discovery. Participants provided feedback on its design and modeling, expected ease of implementation by developers, and scalability at a global level.

Finish date: November 20, 2020

Earth Observation Applications Pilot

The OGC Innovation Program initiative OGC Earth Observation Applications Pilot, conducted between December 2019 and July 2020. The pilot explored an Earth Observation Application software architecture that was developed in OGC Testbeds 13-15. The architecture allows the deployment and execution of externally developed applications on Earth Observation data and processing platforms.

Finish date: September 30, 2020

3D Data Container and Tiles Pilot

Explore an integrated suite of draft specifications for 3D tiled geospatial resources and compatibility with existing OGC 3D delivery standards such as the 3D Portrayal Service, I3S, and 3D Tiles Community Standard.

Finish date: September 30, 2020

Interoperable Simulation and Gaming (ISG) Sprint (Year 1)

The goal of the Sprint was to advance the use of relevant OGC and Khronos standards in the modeling and simulation community through practical exercise and testing of the draft specification produced by the 3D Data Container and Tiles API Pilot. Of particular interest is the handling and integration of glTF models coming from multiple sources. There is secondary interest in the spec’s implementability, consistency, completeness, and maturity. Implementation experiences obtained from the Sprint will advance the interests and work of the OGC Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Domain Working Group (ISG DWG) and of the OGC Standards Baseline in general.

Finish date: September 15, 2020

Vector Tiles Pilot Phase 2

The objective of Vector Tiles Pilot Phase 2 is to deliver a consistent, interoperable online/offline architecture for vector tiles based on feature and tile servers, and GeoPackage.

Finish date: July 31, 2020

Maritime Limits and Boundaries (MLB) Pilot

Implement prototypes based on the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-121 standard for maritime limits and boundaries data structure and exchange. Advance the implementation of the S-121 data model and architecture and implement operational prototypes to support the creation, management, integration, dissemination and onward use of official data for maritime baselines, limits, zones and boundaries.

Finish date: June 23, 2020

OGC Testbed 15

The OGC Testbed is an annual research and development program that explores geospatial technology from various angles. It takes the OGC Baseline into account, though at the same time allows to explore selected aspects with a fresh pair of eyes. Testbed-15 explores new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing with a focus on data-centric security, federated clouds, service & application discovery, portrayal, machine learning, and delta updates.

Finish date: February 28, 2020

ESIP and OGC API – Coverages and Processing Analytics Sprint

The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are convening an agile development sprint to advance APIs for analytics on coverages, arrays, and gridded data.

Finish date: February 28, 2020

Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA)

The Smart Cities Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA) Pilot developed and tested an interoperable requirements-based architecture framework for Smart Cities in support of the public safety sector. It researched, designed, and tested SCIRA as an interoperable framework that integrates commercial proprietary IoT sensors for public safety applications at the community level.

Finish date: January 31, 2020

Disasters Pilot 2019

The OGC Disasters Resilience Pilot 2019 focused on the demonstration of the usefulness of standards and SDI architecture within the Disaster community. This Pilot built on previous work that was executed as the Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (CDS) and was documented in the OGC Development of Disaster Spatial Data Infrastructures for Disaster Resilience.

Finish date: January 30, 2020

DataBio

DATABIO focused on the data intensive target sector Data-Driven Bioeconomy. More specifically, DATABIO explored the potential of Big Data integration and analytics in the domains agriculture, forestry, and fishery/aquaculture; taking into account interoperability and sustainability aspects in the heterogeneous European bioeconomy landscape.

Finish date: December 31, 2019

UGAS-2019

The UGAS-2019 Pilot was undertaken in order to improve and enhance the present capabilities of ShapeChange in order to meet current and emerging technology requirements associated with the NSG Application Schema (NAS).

Finish date: December 31, 2019

STAC and OGC API – Features and Catalogues Sprint

OGC has been developing a new generation of web API standards leveraging OpenAPI to document requirements for implementation. In parallel, but in close coordination, the STAC community has been advancing a specification focused on imagery catalogs, which is based on OGC API – Features. The purpose of this Sprint was to work on the Query and Filter operations for data that will extend functionality of OGC API – Features [https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogcapi-features] and OGC API – Catalogue [https://github.com/opengeospatial/CAT4.0].

Finish date: December 31, 2019

Borehole Interoperability Experiment

Borehole and associated data are crucial for many domains. They are used in any domain that need to probe the underground; geology (hydrogeology, oil and gas, mining), civil engineering (utilities, constructions, transportation) and environment (ice coring, limnology, etc.). The Borehole Interoperability Experiment defines a domain neutral semantic for a general concept of borehole and produce a public OGC engineering report summarizing the overall cross-domain, inter-standard findings and recommendations for a best practice implementation that should follow.

Finish date: November 30, 2019

CityGML Challenge

The purpose of the Challenge was to encourage software developers to configure visualisation software tools to support the capabilities of version 3 of CityGML, including dynamic data feeds from a range of sensors. The resulting tools and visualisation environment have been made openly available for one year for wider non-commercial experimentation and innovation purposes, in particular as part of a Triangulum Innovation Challenge focused on energy and mobility applications.

The expectation was for this visualisation to operate from a database representation of the City Model that conform to the CityGML 3 conceptual model, and are not be dependent on any of the CityGML encodings.

Finish date: November 30, 2019

Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot

Addresses key geospatial challenges related to indoor mapping and navigation in preplanning operations for first responders. Leverages standardized, open GIS frameworks, data models, and data exchange formats (e.g. CityGML, IndoorGML, WPS, and WFS) to stimulate the rapid generation of prototypes and demonstrations that address the key first-responder preplanning activities.

Finish date: October 31, 2019

Routing Pilot

The Open Routing API Pilot developed new capabilities to easily share routes and prototype APIs able to use routing data from any source – based on the next generation of OGC APIs.

Finish date: September 8, 2019

Mixed Reality to the Edge CDS

The goal of this Concept Development Study (CDS) was to demonstrate to stakeholders the diversity, richness and value of new and emerging technologies for 3d processing, curation, and analytics in support of users in potentially disconnected computing environments. Specifically, consider from an interoperability perspective what data sources, technologies, analytics and associated IT services that were required for addressing the needs for the convergence of geospatial 3d modelling, simulation, and gaming integrated with machine learning for automated 3d workflows for such activities as enhanced decision support, mission rehearsal, and/or situational understanding. This included the role of AI along with AR and VR for enhanced visualization and decision support.

Finish date: August 1, 2019

OGC API Hackathon 2019

The goal of the hackathon was to advance the development of OGC API specifications by providing an environment and opportunity for the geospatial community to collaborate and work together. It was proposed to include service development and testing, using one or more implementations of OpenAPI/Swagger. 

Finish date: June 30, 2019

Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) – CDS

The OGC Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (MSDI-CDS) assessed the current state of data management and exchange technologies used in the marine domain.

Finish date: March 31, 2019

OGC Testbed 14

Testbed-14 explored a variety of geospatial data modeling, access, exchange, processing, and visualisation aspects. More than 200 experts addressed research questions, prototype services and solutions, and developed guidelines and best practices in 15 different themes organised in the 4 Testbed Threads of Compliance and Interoperability Testing (CITE), Earth Observation & Clouds (EOC), Modeling, Portrayal, and Quality of Service (MoPoQ), and Next Generation Services (NextGen).

Finish date: February 28, 2019

CDB Vector Data in GeoPackage Interoperability Experiment

The CDB Vector Data in GeoPackage Interoperability Experiment has tested encodings of vector data via GeoPackage in the OGC CDB 1.1 Standard and Best Practices. A primary objective of this IE was to inform decision making for possible enhancements in the OGC CDB Standards Working Group (SWG).

Finish date: February 28, 2019

Geospatial to the Edge Interoperability Plugfest

The Geospatial to the Edge Interoperability Plugfest, co-sponsored by Army Geospatial Center and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA/CIO&T) brings together technology implementers and data providers to advance the interoperability of geospatial products and services based on OGC profiles.

Finish date: December 31, 2018

Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study

The focus of this study was to understand how to best support the development of, or combination of SDI(s) for the use in disasters, to advance the understanding of stakeholder issues, and serve stakeholders’ needs. The study included stakeholder engagements, workshops and open Request for Information (RFI) that gathered external international positions and opinions on the optimal setup and design of an SDI for disasters.

Finish date: December 18, 2018

Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment (ELFIE)

The Environmental Linked Feature Interoperability Experiment (ELFIE) brought interested stakeholders together around the shared goal of providing a best practice for encoding documents expressing links between hydrologic and related features from models including but not limited to HY_Features, GWML2, and SoilIEML as well as observations and related content from a variety of observations and monitoring standards.

Finish date: December 11, 2018

Vector Tiles Pilot

The OGC Vector Tiles Pilot requirements were generated from a combination of sponsor input and analysis of typical use cases for tiling of vector feature data across the OGC Standards Baseline and related standards. The driving use case for this activity was the visualization of feature data on a client. The three main scenarios considered were consumption of tiled feature data by a web client, a desktop client and a mobile client.

Finish date: September 28, 2018

Underground Infrastructure Pilot

The Model for Underground Data Definition and Interchange (MUDDI) Workshop reviewed potential use case scenarios and provided feedback on how to refine and improve the MUDDI Data Model. It also reviewed a draft version of an underground data RoI model Cost Benefit Assessment of Subterranean Information Management.

Finish date: August 31, 2018

Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Hackathon 2018

The Hackathon builds on results from the recently concluded Testbed-13 initiative and paves the way for Tested-14 and subsequent initiatives in the context of deployment and execution of applications in cloud environments. The goal is to demonstrate that the Testbed-13 results, described in the Engineering Reports OGC Testbed-13: Exploitation Platform Application Package and OGC Testbed-13: Application Deployment and Execution Service are fit for purpose. Given that these Engineering Reports state several options, this Hackathon shall identify the best solution and identify any missing elements as basis for Testbed-14 and future initiatives.

Finish date: July 31, 2018

OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Related Tables Extension Interoperability Experiment

This OGC interoperability experiment tested a proposed extension to the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard (12-128r14). The purpose of the Related Tables extension is to explicitly describe the relation and function of the rows in sub-ordinate tables to features in core GeoPackage feature tables. One real-world application of this extension is the association of media objects to geographic features.

Finish date: July 10, 2018

WFS 3.0 Hackathon

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) organized a Hackathon to capture developer insight into the draft standard for Web Feature Service (WFS) version 3. This draft standard is evolving in a quite unique fashion with respect to typical standard development and features OpenAPI / Swagger definition of the key service elements. This new approach to the development of WFS3 is based on ideas generated from the OGC/W3C Spatial Data Working Group on the Web Best Practices , the OGC Geospatial API White Paper, and the FGDC Application Programming Interface (API) assessment. Each of these reports recommended an emphasis on APIs in future OGC standards development including use of tools such as OpenAPI.

Finish date: March 31, 2018

Portrayal CDS

The CDS assessed the current state of portrayal of symbology for web-based mapping, ultimately releasing and presenting a report that will provide an overview of the findings and provide recommendations for further action.

Finish date: March 30, 2018

Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction Across the Americas Summit – Simulated Exercise

The “Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction Across the Americas: A Regional Summit on the Contributions of Earth Observations” held on September 3-8 in 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina strengthened the collective ability to share the many challenges of disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) while promoting the awareness and better use of earth observations (EO).

Finish date: February 1, 2018

OGC Testbed 13

Over 170 individuals from 45 organizations participated in the development of 55 software components that were tested for interoperability. Components with similar interfaces were developed by different organizations and tested by clients – again provided by different organizations – to test and improve the level of interoperability among the software components. Activities addressed 15 tasks and topics organised in the five Testbed Threads: Cross Community Interoperability (CCI), Dynamic Source Integration (DSI), Earth Observation Clouds (EOC), Streaming & 3D Data (S3D), and Compliance Testing (COT).

Finish date: January 12, 2018

Systemic Standardisation Approach to Empower Smart Cities and Communities

The primary ESPRESSO objectives can be summarized into four classes, (1) the Smart Cities information framework, (2) shared semantics and vocabularies, (3) a communication ecosystem, and (4) market enablement and dissemination.

Finish date: December 31, 2017

Indian Plugfest

To support the National Programs on Smart Cities and National GIS / National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) of the Government of India (http://smartcities.gov.in/writereaddata/SmartCityGuidelines.pdf), the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under Government of India is interested in planning and convening an Indian OGC Interoperability Plugfest. This initiative would create a supportive environment for public private partnership to actively test their ability to apply the benefits of OGC standards in improving the ability and efficiency of accessing, sharing and processing various types of government geospatial data/ information via OGC Web Services in support of the above noted Programs as well as governance in general.

The Indian OGC Interoperability Plugfest focuses on an initial set of OGC standards deemed by NSDI under DST to be of critical importance to support advancement of the NSDI for sharing geospatial data/ information across the Indian community, including both the public and private sectors. These standards are initially proposed to include: WMS 1.1.1, WMS 1.3, WMTS 1.0, WFS 1.1.0, WFS 2.0.2, City GML 2.0, and GML 3.2.1.

Finish date: November 17, 2017

Underground Infrastructure Concept Development Study

Through the Underground Infrastructure initiative, OGC and its members seek to lower the barriers to interchange and integration of infrastructure data in a number of critical applications. By means of a common, extensible data model and interchange standards, OGC expects to create a favorable environment that encourages uniform, high quality data development and enables straightforward, timely data integration. This will eventually make it possible to assemble complete “common operating pictures” of what infrastructure is underground whenever and wherever needed.

Finish date: September 4, 2017

Future City Pilot, Phase 1

The objective of the OGC pilot project is to demonstrate how use of, CityGML data and IFC data together can provide stakeholders with information, knowledge and insight which enhances financial, environmental, and social outcomes for citizens living in cities.

Finish date: June 13, 2017

API Concept Development Study

The emphasis of this API Concept Development Study (API CDS) is how APIs can be developed and used in a consistent interoperable manner in the geospatial community. Recommendations may include technologies, system architectures, information models and vocabularies, as well as organizational practices and approaches to governance.

Finish date: May 31, 2017

Arctic Spatial Data Pilot

The goal of the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot, sponsored by the US Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada, is to demonstrate to Arctic stakeholders the diversity, richness and value of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) based on Web services and standardized exchange formats. Stakeholders include national and pan-Arctic science and monitoring organizations and decision makers engaged in Arctic research, social and economic policy, and environmental management. The end goal of the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is to document and publicize a platform of standards and best practices that can support a rich network of Web-accessible data and service resources for the Arctic.

Finish date: March 31, 2017

European Location Framework

The goal of this project is to deliver the European Location Framework (ELF) required to provide up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border, reference geo-information for use by the European public and private sectors.This versatile cloud-based and cascade-supporting architecture provides a platform of INSPIRE compliant geo-information, harmonised at a cross-border and pan-European level.

Finish date: February 1, 2017

OGC Testbed 12

30 Participant organizations conducted technology integration experiments on 82 interoperable, running component implementations. Participants also delivered 51 documents, including engineering reports, user guides and summary-level artifacts, and 40 Change Requests, for a grand total of 173 technical deliverables. Activities addressed topics such as Clients, OGC Web Services, Architecture, Aviation, Arctic SDI, Big Data, Semantics, and Dynamic Sources.

Finish date: January 31, 2017

Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB)

ENV.2012.6.5-1: Developing community-based environmental monitoring and information systems using innovative and novel earth observation applications

Finish date: October 31, 2016

IMIS IoT Pilot

The IMIS IoT Pilot produced initial specifications, profiles, best practices and demonstration designs for connecting sensors and response information systems in an ad hoc fashion for management of disaster and emergency incidents.

Finish date: September 22, 2016

GeoPackage Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment

This interoperability experiment (GPKG-EE IE) tested a proposed extension to the OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard (12-128r1). Testing was achieved by building GeoPackages using the proposed extension and then using those GeoPackages in visualization and analysis software. This IE produced an OGC Engineering Report that discusses whether the elevation extension meets community requirements and can proceed to the OGC standards adoption process.

Finish date: August 12, 2016

CityGML Quality IE

The aim of the CityGML QIE is to define data quality requirements for a general CityGML data specification, to provide recommended implementation guidance for 3D data, and to provide a suite of essential quality checking tools to carry out quality assurance on CityGML data. This will be accomplished by evaluating the quality of existing CityGML data as well as of CityGML sample data sets that have been specifically developed for this experiment with available quality checking tools. The data requirements and recommended implementation guidance will be defined from the insights obtained by these experiments and may serve as input to extend and refine the CityGML standard. This will meet the OGC Membership and community “thirst” for better implementation guidance for each OGC standard, in this case CityGML.

Finish date: July 20, 2016

Soil Data IE

The Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (the IE) was conducted in 2015 under the auspices of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Agriculture Domain Working Group. The IE evaluated existing models and proposed a common core model, including a GML/XML schema, which was tested through the deployment of OGC web services and demonstration clients.

Finish date: May 20, 2016

OGC Testbed 11

Testbed-11 sponsors documented interoperability requirements and objectives for activities in the areas of Urban Climate Resilience, Cross-Community Interoperabiity, Aviation, and Geo4NIEM and Security. Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 and developed solutions based on the sponsors’ use cases, requirements and scenarios.

Finish date: June 30, 2015

IMIS – Virtual USA

IMIS – Virtual USA becomes the de facto national standard for sharing emergency management information across levels of government and the private sector, allowing all users and organizations to use their own systems to share information securely with all others, anywhere in the United States and across international borders, controlling what information is shared, with whom, for how long.

Finish date: March 29, 2015

USGS Interoperability Assessment

The Interoperability Assessment carried out rigorous testing of USGS web services to identify and correct shortcomings of OGC standards implementations, and highlighted areas in which to improve the user experience with USGS web services. As a result of the project, users can include the improved USGS services more easily in their decisions making and operational activities.

Finish date: January 31, 2015

AAtS Harmonization Project

The FAA’s Aircraft Access to System Wide Information Management (AAtS) initiative’s goal is to provide aircraft connectivity to the FAA’s SWIM infrastructure to communicate/share aviation data and services. This connectivity will establish a common operating picture between the flight deck and air traffic control for collaborative strategic decision-making.

Finish date: June 30, 2014

OGC Testbed 10

OGC Testbed 10 addressed the following activity threads: Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI), Open Mobility, and Aviation.

Finish date: May 28, 2014

OS Plugfest (UKIAP)

The purpose of the United Kingdom Interoperability Assessment Plugfest (UKIAP) was to advance the interoperability of geospatial products and services based on OGC standards within the UK geospatial information (GI) community. The results of the Plugfest allowed Ordnance Survey to provide best practice guidance and allowed software companies (commercial and open source) to improve their proucts and make them more interoperable.

Finish date: March 15, 2014

OGP / IPIECA Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture (COP)

The OGP / IPIECA Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture (COP) project adressed the questions of what is needed is a common picture of reality for different organizations that have different views of the spill so that they all have to deal with it collectively.

Finish date: December 31, 2013

MOSIA Lot 1 Project

The MOSIA consortium group (MOdeling Support with standards for Information and Architecture models applied to ATM) is a consortium of organisations with a background in Information management and Information, Service and Architecture modeling from a set of standardisaton organisations, in particular OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium), ISO/TC211, INSPIRE and OMG (Object Management Group).

Finish date: December 31, 2013

HDWG Groundwater 2 IE

This groundwater interoperability experiment (GW2IE) developed and tested the GroundWater Markup Language 2, by harmonizing and advancing existing modeling initiatives such as: GWML1, relevant EU-INSPIRE models (Geology-hydrogeology, Environmental monitoring facilities), GeoSciML, and others.

Finish date: October 31, 2013

Geospatial Enhancement for the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) (Geo4NIEM)

The Geo4NIEM initiative addressed important Information Exchange requirements leading to development of recommendations to enhance the geospatial capabilities within the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). Sponsors identified specific Information Exchange Packages (IEPs) from Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Justice/Law Enforcement domain and Maritime domain as representative examples for investigation in this initiative.

Finish date: September 23, 2013

MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE)

This MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE) experiment demonstrated that the MilOps Domain model and NIEM v2.1 technical concepts work in combination with geospatial standards as defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (e.g., GML, WFS, WCS, WMS, etc.).

Finish date: August 30, 2013

SWE Maturity Request for Information

This RFI sought information about successful implementations of SWE to provide the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) with a “state of the practice” and benefits of using SWE.

Finish date: June 11, 2013

Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot, Phase 1

OGC’s Climatology-Hydrology Information Sharing Pilot, Phase 1 (CHISP-1) project was conducted as a Pilot initiative, a collaborative effort that applies technology elements from the OGC Technical Baseline and other (non-OGC) technologies to address Sponsor requirements and scenarios.The Pilot was conducted to “stress test” a set of OGC standards based on real-world application and experience.

Finish date: April 30, 2013

Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of HEAlth risks

EO2HEAVEN contributed to a better understanding of the complex relationships between environmental changes and their impact on human health. The project monitored changes induced by human activities, with emphasis on atmospheric, river, lake and coastal marine pollution. EO2HEAVEN designed and developed methods and tools to correlate environmental data with exposure and health data, to support the collection and integration of data and to visualise results in their geographical context. The overall aim is to support research of human exposure and early detection of potential health endangerments.

Finish date: March 30, 2013

OGC Web Services, Phase 9

In OWS-9 participants developed and demonstrated the use of the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Exchange Model (WXXM) in an OGC Web Services environment, focusing on support for several Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) project requirements as well as FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) and Aircraft Access to SWIM (System Wide Information Management) (AAtS) requirements.

Finish date: January 18, 2013

3D Portrayal IE

The 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (IE) successfully tested and demonstrated different mechanisms for the portrayal, delivery, and exploitation of 3D geodata based on open standards-based formats and services. The IE intended to identify, test, and further develop technologies and workflows that may be the foundation of spatial data infrastructures with a requirement for rapid visualization of extremely large and complex 3D geodata. Main focus of the IE was on draft candidate standards for Web 3D Service and Web View Service. The IE included digital landscape models, city models, and interior models, e.g., in the CityGML data format, as well as different client configurations.

Finish date: October 31, 2012

HDWG Forecasting IE

This interoperability experiment advanced the development of WaterML 2.0 and tested its use in a forecasting context with various OGC service standards (SOS, SES, WFS, WMS and WCS). It also contributed to a co-operation with the Met-Ocean domain working group. Where relevant to the forecasting context, it contributed to the development and evaluation of a hydrology domain feature model and vocabularies, which are essential for interoperability in the hydrology domain, although these were not the main focus for the IE.

Finish date: September 30, 2012

Aviation SAA Pilot

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) SAA Dissemination OGC Pilot demonstrated the feasibility of automating the dissemination and portrayal of Special Activity Airspace (SAA) information (including updates) to National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders and other external users via OGC Web Services.

Finish date: June 15, 2012

Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment II

The Ocean IE will advance several areas of understanding and application of OGC specifications in to web services for interoperable ocean science. In particular will advance SOS services.

Finish date: January 3, 2011

OGC Web Services, Phase 8

OWS-8 addressed the following areas: Observation Fusion, Geosynchronization (Gsync), Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI), and Aviation.

Finish date: December 31, 2011

OWS Shibboleth IE

The IE, initiated by OGC Members Cadcorp, EDINA, and Snowflake Software, demonstrated the use of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) with OGC Web Services including use of Shibboleth. This IE is built on ESDIN best practices and a previous OGC Authentication Interoperability Experiment that was not led by ESDIN. To finalize this activity a best practice report was presented at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, CO, September 2011.

Finish date: November 30, 2011

HDWG Surface Water IE

This interoperability experiment advanced the development of WaterML 2.0, test its use with various OGC service standards (SOS, WFS, WMS and CSW). It will also contribute to the development of a hydrology domain feature model and vocabularies, which are essential for interoperability in the hydrology domain.

Finish date: September 30, 2011

OGC Water Information Services Concept Development

The OGC Water Information Services Concept Development explored appropriate architectures and procedures for migrating the CUAHSI HIS to the OGC-based WaterML 2.0 encoding (profile of OGC O&M standard) and OGC web services such as Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Mapping Service (WMS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), and Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW).

Finish date: July 12, 2011

GeoMobile and Internet of Things

This workshop explored the role of location inexpanding GeoWeb to an Internet of Things. The workshop seeks presentations on functions enabled bygeographic location and to location relative to surrounding objects. Most of the objects will be indoor in a3D setting. The workshop also seeks presentations on relevant technologies such as location determination, geocoding, schemas for points of interest, ad-hoc network formation based on location, processing of information of the objects to detect phenomena of interest and location based services. Technology standards will be important for interoperability at this scale, e.g., OpenLS, CityGML, and Sensor Web Enablement standards from the OGC.

Finish date: May 25, 2011

HDWG Groundwater IE

The Groundwater (GW) IE concluded that delivery of groundwater feature data via WFS and GWML, and delivery of groundwater observation data via SOS and WaterML 2, was adequate for schematic interoperability across the US and Canada border, only once best practices were developed for the deployment of these standards and related technologies. It also concluded that deployment of the standards, specifications, and best practices by clients allowed for reasonable viewing and downloading of feature and observation data. However, querying groundwater observations, as time series, is still a challenging task requiring further development of standards.

Finish date: March 23, 2011

OGC Web Services, Phase 7

The OWS-7 addressed the following threads: Sensor Fusion Enablement (SFE), Feature and Decision Fusion (FDF), Aviation.

Finish date: September 17, 2010

Fusion Standards Study, Part 2: Decision Fusion

The study examined Fusion in three categories: Sensor Fusion, Feature/Object Fusion and Decision Fusion. The OGC Engineering Report for Phase 1 of the study documents the evaluation of the current state of standards for each of these three categories. One of the recommendations of Phase 1 was that a second phase should be conducted to evaluate the broad topic of decision fusion.

Finish date: December 17, 2010

Authentication IE

The Authentication Interoperability Experiment tested standard ways of transferring authentication information between OGC clients and OGC services by leveraging mechanisms already existing in the transport protocol (HTTP and SOAP). The following mechanisms were planned to be tested: HTTP Authentication, HTTP Cookies, SSL/X509, SAML, Shibboleth, amd OpenID.

Finish date: June 12, 2010

AECOO-1 Testbed

The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner Operator, Phase 1 (AECOO-1) Testbed developed and implemented methods to streamline communications between parties in the conceptual design phase to get an early understanding of the tradeoffs between construction cost and energy efficiency. To that end, the project developed the interoperability components required for these analyses in collaborative team settings.

Finish date: June 4, 2010

Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment

The first phase of the interoperability experiment focuses on the use of SOS as a standard service to distribute data coming from citizen science observations. This idea is based in the COBWEB recommendation to use the classical OGC services in the Sensor Web Enablement. The second phase now focuses on SensorThingsAPI and OpenAPI in general.

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Energy Utilities Data Sharing for Wildfires Study

The overall goal of this initiative is to advance the interoperability of information systems to help energy utility companies share data and improve wildfire risk reduction, response, recovery and resilience. The envisioned project has two parts. This initial phase is a Concept Development Study. A subsequent phase will take the form of an Interoperability Pilot.

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e-shape

The E-SHAPE proposal is driven by the need to develop operational EO services with and for the users and to create a conducive environment whereby the strengths of Europe are exploited towards addressing societal challenges, fostering entrepreneurship and supporting sustainable development. The project puts a lot of emphasis on co design, coordinated implementation encouraging adoption of standards and compliance testing, user Uptake and Capacity Building.

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DEMETER

The DEMETER Project is a large-scale deployment of farmer centric interoperable smart farming-IoT based platforms delivered through a series of 20 pilots across 18 countries (15 States in the EU). OGC’s role in DEMETER is to coordinate the pilots and facilitate the communication between pilots and work packages. DEMETER is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 857202

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OGC Testbed-17

OGC Testbeds are OGC’s largest Innovation Program initiatives. Testbeds boost research and development to make location data and information more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-Usable. Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors to tackle location data and processing challenges together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts.

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Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GeoE3)

The overall objective of GeoE3 is to exploit existing national geospatial platforms and develop a cloud-based ecosystem of generic services that dynamically integrate various datasets and services with geospatial data.

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Health Spatial Data Infrastructure

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world that global crisis response and preparedness cannot be executed without (1) location-related information of people and resources, and (2) trusted information sharing across stakeholders from traditional sources (such as health, defense, public safety) to new sources of information (such as privately-collected mobility data). In addition, information critical to response efforts may come from unexpected sources and domains that previously had little reason to collaborate or involvement with emergency response efforts.

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Health Spatial Data Infrastructure CDS

A common, standardized health geospatial data model and schema will establish a blueprint to better align the community for early warning, response to, and recovery from future health emergencies. Such a data model will help to improve support for critical functions and use cases.

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EO Cloud Platform CDS

The scope of this study is the evaluation of EO cloud platform architectures and alignment with open standards, and documentation of their readiness to support the Disaster Pilot 2021 disaster response exercise scenario.

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UxS Command and Control IE

This IE will test the suitability of a C&C data model for UxSs in a real-world environment. The goal of this IE is to assess whether the data model is suitable for multi-domain, multi heterogenous vehicle use and demonstrate exchange of command and control information. IE is based on a data model developed by Kongsberg Geospatial and partners under the Standards-based UxS Interoperability Testbed (SUIT). The IE will consider those other standards and specifications which were used in the SUIT work as well as other Command and Control practices from the aviation community.

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Federated Marine SDI 2023

The fourth phase of the Federated Marine SDI Demonstration Pilot focuses on Digital Twins and the land-sea interface. It will be divided into three parts for testing in three different areas, namely Singapore, Canada and the Caribbean.

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Federated Marine SDI 2024

The OGC FMSDI Pilot 2024 seeks to improve the interoperability of land & sea data by developing freely available, open solutions to the real-world problems being faced by sponsoring organizations.

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Releasable Basemap Tiles GeoPackage Sprint

3 week Sprint intends to test, implement, and develop a draft specification for the NSG VTIS Volume 2: Basemap Tile Packages (BTP), which stores Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVTs) in a GeoPackage.

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