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.

OGC Testbed-19 delivers breakthroughs in geospatial interoperability, ML,…
OGC Testbed-17 advances geospatial R&D with new work…

The Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study…

The full set of Testbed 12 videos can…

SummaryThis interoperability experiment will advance the development of…

Data Cube Interoperability advances a user-centric model for…
VTP-2 enabled consistent online/offline vector tile delivery and…

The Citizen Science Interoperability Experiment has now concluded,…

GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) is…

The MOSIA consortium group (MOdeling Support with standards…

BackgroundAccess to the Internet will predominantly be from…

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…