Domain working groups

Domain Working Groups (DWG or WG) provide a forum for discussion of key interoperability requirements and issues, discussion and review of implementation specifications, and presentations on key technology areas relevant to solving geospatial interoperability issues.

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3DIM DWG (3DIM DWG)The OGC 3D Information Management (3DIM) DWG facilitates the definition and development of interface and encoding standards for 3-dimensional content that enable software solutions allowing infrastructure owners, builders, emergency responders, community planners, and the traveling public to better manage and navigate complex environments.

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Biljecki, Filip (National University of Singapore) – Group Chair,
Graham, David (CAE Inc.) – Group Chair,
Roensdorf, Carsten (Ordnance Survey) – Group Chair
Agriculture DWG (Agriculture DWG)The OGC Agriculture DWG provides a forum for discussion surrounding location information and its uses in landscape and farming. These activities involve sensing, analyzing, and communicating geospatial data streams.

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Charvat, Karel (Plan4All z.s.) – Group Chair,
Di, Liping (George Mason University) – Group Chair
Architecture DWG (Arch DWG)The OGC Architecture DWG considers overarching architectural issues that are germane to multiple OGC standards, including mechanisms for describing and invoking services in a heterogeneous distributed network.

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Hobona, Gobe (Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.) – Group Chair,
Maso Pau, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CREAF)) – Group Chair
Artificial Intelligence in Geoinformatics DWG (GeoAI DWG)The OGC GeoAI DWG works to identify use cases and applications related to AI in geospatial domains with particular emphasis on information synthesis, IoT (e.g., healthcare, smart energy), robots (e.g., manufacturing, self-driving vehicles), and ‘digital twins’ (e.g., smart buildings and cities).

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Chauhan, Lokendra (Chauhan, Lokendra) – Group Chair,
Chou, Tien-Yin (Feng Chia University) – Group Chair,
Hadland, Anneley (Helyx secure information systems ltd) – Group Chair,
Kim, Kyoung-Sook (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST)) – Group Chair,
Kotzinos, Dimitris (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) – Group Chair
Autonomy, Sensors, Things, Robots and Observations DWG (ASTRO DWG)The OGC Autonomy, Sensors, Things, Robots and Observations (ASTRO) DWG focuses on observations and measurements, sensor model language, sensor observation services, sensor planning service, and SensorThings API to enable real time integration of heterogeneous sensor webs and the Internet of Things into the information infrastructure.

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Botts, Mike (Botts Innovative Research) – Group Chair,
Liang, Steve (University of Calgary) – Group Chair
Aviation DWG (Aviation DWG)The OGC Aviation DWG provides an open forum for work on aviation-related data interoperability and access, and a route to publication of aviation-specific topics through OGC. The open forum encourages collaborative development among disparate participants in a rapidly evolving technological milieu.

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Lepori, Hubert (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL)) – Group Chair,
Sullivan, Don (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) – Group Chair
Big Data DWG (BigData DWG)The OGC Big Data DWG (BigData.DWG) is an open forum for work on Big Data interoperability, access, and especially analytics. The DWG encourages collaborative development among participants representing many organizations and communities, and ensures appropriate liaisons to other Big Data relevant working groups, both inside and outside OGC.

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Baumann, Peter (Constructor University Bremen gGmbH) – Group Chair,
Heazel, Charles (Heazel, Charles) – Group Chair,
Herring, John (Herring, John) – Group Chair
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies DWG (BDLT DWG)The OGC Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) DWG operates to build understanding of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as well as to identify the potential requirements for geospatial standardization within those technologies.

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Alzona, Marcus (Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation) – Group Chair,
Matheus, Andreas (Secure Dimensions GmbH) – Group Chair
Citizen Science DWG (Citizen Science)The OGC Citizen Science DWG is motivated to support citizen science, scientific research conducted in whole or in part by amateur scientists, by providing a forum for increasing understanding and demonstration of the benefits brought by the use of open standards and best practices.

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Abhayaratna, Jo (PSMA Australia) – Group Chair,
Maso Pau, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CREAF)) – Group Chair
Climate Resilience DWG (Climate DWG)The OGC Climate Resilience Domain Working Group (DWG) charter defines a focal point for OGC activities to support achieving climate resilience on a global scale.

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Ahola, Ryan (GeoConnections – Natural Resources Canada) – Group Chair,
Alos, Angel (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)) – Group Chair,
Jamieson, Allan (Ordnance Survey) – Group Chair
Coordinate Reference System DWG (CRS DWG)The OGC Coordinate Reference System (CRS) DWG develops strategies for encoding of Earth coordinate reference systems and transformations between coordinate reference systems. This DWG addresses units of measure.

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Hedley, Mark (UK Met Office) – Group Chair,
Ryden, Keith (Esri) – Group Chair
Coverages DWG (Coverages DWG)Scope of this Discussion Working Group (DWG) are all topics related to coverage data and processing.

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Baumann, Peter (Constructor University Bremen gGmbH) – Group Chair,
Meissl, Stephan (EOX IT Services GmbH) – Group Chair
Data Quality DWG (DQ DWG)The mission of the DQ DWG to establish a forum for describing an interoperable framework or model for OGC quality measures and services to enable access and sharing of high quality geospatial information, improve data analysis, and ultimately influence policy decisions.

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Henzen, Christin (Technische Universität Dresden) – Group Chair,
Ivánová, Ivana (Curtin University) – Group Chair,
Maso Pau, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CREAF)) – Group Chair,
Meek, Sam (Helyx secure information systems ltd) – Group Chair
Defense and Intelligence DWG (D and I DWG)The OGC Defense and Intelligence DWG provides an environment that facilitates information exchange and collaboration involving location information in the defense industry.

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Colaiacomo, Lucio (European Union Satellite Centre) – Group Chair,
Morgan, Amanda (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)) – Group Chair
Discrete Global Grid Systems DWG (DGGS DWG)This OGC DWG provides a forum for the discussion of requirements and use cases for standards and the registration of implementations related to Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS). The working group is a forum for broad discussion of DGGS topics and research activities that are of relevance to various geospatial communities and that may potentially impact on existing, or new, geospatial standards.

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Purss, Matthew (Purss, Matthew) – Group Chair,
Strobl, Peter (Joint Research Centre (JRC)) – Group Chair
Earth Observation Exploitation Platform DWG (EO Ex Platform)This OGC DWG charter defines the role for OGC activities within the Earth Observation Data Exploitation platform domain and provides an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC standards in this domain.

Ahola, Ryan (GeoConnections – Natural Resources Canada) – Group Chair,
Goncalves, Pedro (Terradue Srl) – Group Chair,
Iacopino, Claudio (European Space Agency (ESA)) – Group Chair
Emergency and Disaster Management DWG (EDM DWG)The mission of the Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM) DWG is to improve efficiency and effectiveness of users in all phases of emergency and disaster activities communities through changes and extensions to OGC Standards, which result in interoperable geospatial products and other information consumables that can be shared across these communities.

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Chou, Tien-Yin (Feng Chia University) – Group Chair,
Churchyard, Paul (Health Solutions Research, Inc.) – Group Chair,
Sullivan, Don (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) – Group Chair
Geo for Metaverse DWG (Geo4Metaverse)The Geo for Metaverse DWG provides a forum for discussion and documentation of interoperability requirements for Open and Interoperable Metaverse components and services.

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Belayneh, Tamrat (Esri) – Group Chair,
Chauhan, Lokendra (Chauhan, Lokendra) – Group Chair,
Godse, Amey (Duality Robotics) – Group Chair
Geoscience DWG (Geoscience DWG)The GeoScience OGC DWG provides an open forum for work on GeoScience data interoperability and access surrounding GeoScience, particularly representation and more generally acknowledgment of the Earth: Geology, Geophysics, Hydrogeology, Mineralogy, Seismology, Tomography, or Volcanology.

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Beaufils, Mickael (BRGM) – Group Chair
Geosemantics DWG (Semantics)Interoperability and integration of spatial data on the Web are the key activities of the Geosemantics DWG. W3C and OGC have each launched a Spatial Data on the Web Working Group through which the Geospatial and Web communities will document use cases and requirements, develop best practices for publishing spatial data on the Web, and advance some existing technologies to W3C Recommendations and OGC standards.

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Abhayaratna, Jo (PSMA Australia) – Group Chair,
van den Brink, Linda (Geonovum) – Group Chair
Health DWG (Health DWG)The OGC Health DWG enables OGC to identify and work with a representative group of market participants in the identification and prioritization of use cases, business and technical requirements that will provide the most significant value, or mitigate the most significant risks in this arena.

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Gupta, Ajay (Health Solutions Research, Inc.) – Group Chair
Hydrology DWG (Hydrology DWG)The Hydrology DWG provides a venue and mechanism for seeking technical and institutional solutions to the challenge of describing and exchanging data describing the state and location of water resources, both above and below the ground surface.

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Blodgett, Dave (US Geological Survey (USGS)) – Group Chair,
Boston, Tony (World Meteorological Organization (WMO)) – Group Chair,
Pecora, Silvano (World Meteorological Organization (WMO)) – Group Chair
Interoperable Simulation and Gaming DWG (ISG DWG)This OGC DWG provides a forum for the discussion of requirements and use cases for standards and the registration of implementations related to use and re-use of geospatial data within the Interoperable Simulation and Gaming (ISG) community.

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Bergeret, Alban (Epic Games, Inc) – Group Chair,
Graham, David (CAE Inc.) – Group Chair,
Lokuta, Michael (CAE Inc.) – Group Chair
Land Administration DWG (LandAdmin)The Land Administration DWG outlines activities related to land administration. Worldwide, effective, and efficient land administration is an ongoing concern, inhibiting economic growth and property tenure. Only 40 countries around the world have mature land information systems.

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Lemmen, Christiaan (ITC, University of Twente) – Group Chair,
van Oosterom, Peter (Delft University of Technology) – Group Chair
Marine DWG (Marine DWG)The Marine DWG is motivated by the widening use of marine data for purposes other than safe navigation, which can be captured loosely under the term Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI). Geospatial data in the marine domain has been successfully standardized for navigational purposes by hydrographic agencies for many years.

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Laughlin, Glenn (Pelagis Data Solutions) – Group Chair,
Ponce, Rafael (Esri) – Group Chair,
Pritchard, Jonathan (IIC Technologies Limited) – Group Chair,
Wong, Gerald J (United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)) – Group Chair
Metadata and Catalog DWG (MetaCat DWG)The OGC Metadata DWG addresses issues related to how metadata must be specified in OGC Standards to fully enable certain services in the OGC Architecture. This DWG maintains close correspondence between ISO TC/211 metadata standard.

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Cochrane, Byron (Cochrane, Byron) – Group Chair,
Houbie, Frederic (Hexagon) – Group Chair,
Raes, Lieven (Digitaal Vlaanderen) – Group Chair,
Vandenbroucke, Danny (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Spatial Applications Division) – Group Chair
Meteorology & Oceanography DWG (Met Ocean DWG)The OGC Meteorology and Oceanography DWG was established to ensure that OGC standards and profiles allow the meteorological community to develop effective interoperability for web services and content across the wider geospatial domain.

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Little, Chris (UK Met Office) – Group Chair,
Olson, Steve (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) – Group Chair
Mobile Location Services DWG (MLSDWG)The OGC Mobile Location Services (MLS) DWG is a venue in the OGC Standards Program for location-aware mobile requirements and use cases.

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Harrison, Jeff (US Army Geospatial Center) – Group Chair,
Li, Ki-Joune (Pusan National University) – Group Chair
Perspective Imagery DWG (PerspecImageryD)The OGC Perspective Imagery DWG discusses proposals for OGC standards in support of perspective imagery data. Topics include an interoperable data file structure (consisting of typically large numbers of images, as well as other supporting non-imagery data such as an image processing history, that may come from a data collection process) with an associated web service, support of a new OGC pilot project in collaboration with the W3C for their support of OGC augmented reality data sets, and an OGC motion imagery standard.

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Hjelmager, Jan (Danish Agency for Data Supply & Infrastructure (SDFI)) – Group Chair
Planetary DWG (Planetary DWG)The objective of the Planetary DWG is to identify requirements to revise or extend OGC standards for celestial bodies other than the Earth. These bodies can be planets, satellites, asteroids, Sun and comets.

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Hare, Trent (US Geological Survey (USGS)) – Group Chair,
Malapert, Jean-Christophe (CNES) – Group Chair
Point Cloud DWG (Point Cloud DWG)The OGC Point Cloud DWG is motivated by the fast growing popularity and use of point cloud technology. This includes a number of formats and types such as: laser scans from aerial and terrestrial platforms (e.g., LiDAR), triangulated elevation points, dense observations from the meteorological community, and others.

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Boehm, Jan (University College London) – Group Chair,
Tillman, Stan (Hexagon) – Group Chair,
van Oosterom, Peter (Delft University of Technology) – Group Chair
Portrayal DWG (Portrayal DWG)The Portrayal DWG provides a community to better define a common portrayal framework, provide direction to portrayal standards working groups, and provide guidance to other DWGs on portrayal concerns. Current efforts in the portrayal focus area are not well integrated and lack a unifying perspective. Other domains which focus on functional issues or specific applications are attempting to address portrayal as a unique solution within their domains.

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Burnell, Iain (Defence Science & Technology Laboratories (Dstl)) – Group Chair,
Ryden, Keith (Esri) – Group Chair
Security DWG (SecurityDWG)The OGC Security DWG has a mission to establish an interoperable security framework for OGC Web Services to enable protected geospatial information processing.

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Matheus, Andreas (Secure Dimensions GmbH) – Group Chair
Space Standards DWG (Space Std DWG)The Space Standards Domain Working Group will serve as a forum to identify requirements for standardization which are unique for the Space Domain, identify which organizations (if any) are addressing those requirements, and promote harmonization and integration of shared concepts across all Space standards.

Statistical DWG (Statistical DWG)The OGC Statistical Data DWG is chartered to identify requirements and use cases of how geospatial and statistical standards can support the integration of geospatial information into the statistical system and for the purposes of broad discovery, analysis, and use.

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Osier, Vincent (US Census Bureau) – Group Chair
Temporal DWG (Temporal DWG)The goal of the OGC Temporal DWG is to clarify the role of time as a first-class alignment concept next to space, and to strive for a handling of time which is coherent and integrated with that of space. As the issue of time in CRSs is an overarching one across all OGC, the WG will seek to include background from as many OGC stakeholder groups and WGs as possible.

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Baumann, Peter (Constructor University Bremen gGmbH) – Group Chair,
Little, Chris (UK Met Office) – Group Chair
Uninhabited Systems (UxS) DWG (UxS DWG)The OGC Uninhabited Systems (UxS) DWG (herein referred to as UxS with the “x” recognizing that aerial, underwater, and other uninhabited vehicle platforms are included) is chartered to identify standards requirements and use cases for all aspects of uninhabited systems operations focused on mission planning, geospatial data collection, and analysis.

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Alzona, Marcus (Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation) – Group Chair,
Hanchevici, Teodor (Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS) – Group Chair,
Sullivan, Don (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) – Group Chair
University DWG (Univ DWG)The University DWG coordinates the common interests of OGC academic and research members. The DWG is a neutral academic advisory group providing a range of technology, policy, standards and other recommendations to all programs of the OGC.

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Chou, Tien-Yin (Feng Chia University) – Group Chair,
Kmoch, Alexander (University of Tartu) – Group Chair,
Liang, Steve (University of Calgary) – Group Chair
Urban Digital Twins DWG (UDT DWG)The Urban Digital Twins DWG provides an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC Standards in this domain.

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Giannias, Nick (CAE Inc.) – Group Chair,
Gruler, Hans-Christoph (Hexagon) – Group Chair,
Kim, Kyoung-Sook (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST)) – Group Chair,
Roensdorf, Carsten (Ordnance Survey) – Group Chair,
Sarafinof, Dimitri (Institut National de l’information geographique et forestiere (IGN – France)) – Group Chair,
Solaiman, Zubran (Bentley Systems, Inc.) – Group Chair
Workflow DWG (Workflow DWG)The mission of the Workflow DWG is to establish a forum for describing, discussing, and solving any issues related to geospatial workflows. By geospatial workflow we mean any workflows that contain any or all processes that relate to geospatial processes and/or data.

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Tillman, Stan (Hexagon) – Group Chair
** – There may be Co-Chairs or Vice-Chairs that are not listed in this table
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