Active OGC Initiatives

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Initiative Project Scope
image_icon  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
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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
image_icon  Disaster Pilot 2021 OGC Disaster Pilot: Online and Offline Data Availability for First Responders will prototype 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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  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.
image_icon  Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Year 2 The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), through its Innovation Program (IP), 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.
image_icon  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?”
image_icon  OGC Sprints OGC Sprints are collaborative events driven by rapid code development to implement and test specific capabilities of a technical approach or standard. This project provides an overview of all future and completed OGC Sprints.
image_icon  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 (IP) initiatives in a real world environment.
image_icon  OGC Testbed-17 OGC Testbeds are OGC’s largest Innovation Program (IP) 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.
image_icon  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.

Completed Initiatives

To see the list of completed initiatives click here.