Legacy Initiatives

Below you’ll find an alphabetical list of completed Research initiatives. Each entry includes a short summary of objectives and activities—and, where applicable, links to outputs. If you would like more details on any of these initiatives, please contact us.

The Health Spatial Data Infrastructure builds a FAIR,…
The OGC T-16 initiative advances GeoPackage best practices…

Testbed 15: Innovating Geospatial Data Processing, Analysis, and…

Human, natural, and physical systems interact in space…

The goal of this project is to deliver…

SummaryThe Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment will consolidate a…

The OGC E-SHAPE initiative advances interoperable Earth Observation…

Cartography suffers in distributed web service environments and…

OGC Testbed-13OGC Testbeds are the largest OGC Innovation…

MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE)SummaryCommand and Control (C2)…

OWS testbeds are part of OGC’s Interoperability Program,…

Disaster Pilot 2021 combines EO, AI, cloud workflows…

Explore The Active Initiatives

Discover more ongoing initiatives led by OGC that are shaping the future of geospatial innovation.

OGC’s DEMETER initiative drives interoperable smart farming IoT platforms and…
OGC Space Pilot: The Moon advances lunar PNT, interoperable data…
OGC AI-DGGS Pilot advances AI-enhanced grid systems for disaster management,…
Phase 4 expands land–sea data interoperability with OGC standards, enabling…
OGC Testbed-19 delivers breakthroughs in geospatial interoperability, ML, ARD, GeoDataCubes,…
Phase 3 improves Arctic land–sea data integration using OGC and…