In OGC’s annual testbeds, major sponsoring organisations put forth geospatial IT problems. OGC staff integrate these requirements into a set of software architectures, and technology providers then receive support and funding to collaboratively research and rapidly develop prototype solutions. Eventually, the results are handed over to the OGC Standards Program where they take the form of consensus-based open standards and best practices.
Testbed-13 addressed seven topics as illustrated in the figure below. (1) client technology improvements to handle RESTful service implementations, MapML and protrayal challenges and to cope with limited bandwidth situations, (2) OGC Web service interfaces and data models have been improved to deal with data that is fit-for-purpose as well as new compliance tests that help ensuring interoperability,
(3) architectural aspects such as asynchronous interaction patterns, dynamic chaining of workflows and synchronization, and heterogeneous security environments, (4) dynamic sources and communities with specific requirements on advanced data modeling, 3D data streaming and visualization, vector tiling, CDB, quality models, and offline data containers, i.e. GeoPackages, (5) communities and social situations that require complex data handling made simple for non-geospatial experts in mass migration scenarios or in the aviation and climate change research communities, (6) cloud computing with focus on standards-based deployment and execution of applications in heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, and (7) Big data, with focus on data access and data processing physically close to the actual data archives.
The seven topics have been further split into 15 items that are documented on the Tasks page. A summary slide set of all tasks is provided online together with more detailed slide sets that contain a number of videos on
Earth Observations and cloud computing
3D Performance, CDB and vector tiles
Cross Community Interoperability
The introduction slides are complemented with slides provided by Ivan DeLoatch, Chair of the (U.S.) Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), for his welcoming remark
The final demonstration event took place at USGS headquaters in Reston, VA (USA), on December 12-13, 2017. The two days event provided a summary of all work items addressed in Testbed-13 in the morning, followed by a more technical overview in the afternoon. The second day was used to reflect on the achievements of the Testbed, to discuss the knowledge transfer into the OGC Standards Program, and to elaborate ideas for future activities .
Testbed-13 was sponsored by the following organizations:
The next Testbed, Testbed-14, runs April to December 2018, with a demonstration meeting planned as part of the OGC TC meeting in December 2018 Testbed-14