Dr. Jeff de La Beaujardiere receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeff’s support of open standards and OGC’s FAIR mission has improved access to Earth science information for countless users and decision-makers globally.
A Community standard is an official position of the OGC endorsing a specification or standard developed external to the OGC. A Community standard is considered to be a normative standard by OGC membership and part of the OGC Standards Baseline. OGC Best Practices highlight the practical use of one or more OGC standards within a specific domain or to address particular use cases. Best Practices can describe how the standards are applied against scenarios or define a profile of a standard to tailor that standard to the requirements of a specific community. Prior to 2019, OGC Best Practices also included reference to the use of standards and specifications originating outside the OGC. Schemas for some of these documents can be at the Best Practices Schema Repository
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![]() | 21-068 | Andreas Matheus | 2022-09-29 |
This document introduces an extension to the OGC SensorThings data model and discusses the best practices for using such an extension in the ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 21-070 | Steve Liang | 2022-07-13 |
Methane (CH4) is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, and the comparative impact of methane is 25 times greater than CO2 over a 10...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 20-089r1 | Pedro Gonçalves | 2021-12-14 |
Platforms for the exploitation of Earth Observation (EO) data have been developed by public and private companies in order to foster the us...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 21-007 | DGIWG | 2021-11-16 |
This document provides a profile for JPEG 2000 for use as a compression format for raster imagery. JPEG 2000 uses discrete wavelet tr...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 17-084r1 | Y. Coene, U. Voges, O. Barois | 2021-04-21 |
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) [NR1] has been gaining in popularity for encoding data in Web-based applications. JSON consists ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 19-066 | Michala Hill | 2021-02-26 |
This OGC Best Practice (BP) document describes the conversion process for converting a CDB structured Shapefile into a CDB structured GeoPack...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-003r4 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This OGC Best Practice, a volume of the CDB document set, provides a list and description of the instance-level attribution fields held in ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-006r5 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This document provides detailed implementation guidance for developing and maintaining a CDB compliant data store. | |||
![]() | 16-011r5 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
Volume 8 of the CDB standard defines the conceptual model and the methodologies that allow the description, and transformation or conversio...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-010r5 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This CDB Volume provides Guidelines, Clarifications, Rationales, Primers, and additional information for the definition and use of various models that can be stored in a CDB compliant data store. | |||
![]() | 16-009r5 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This volume defines the OpenFlight implementation requirements for a CDB conformant data store. Please also see Volume 1 OGC CDB Core Stand...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-004r5 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This CDB volume provides all of the information required to store Radar Cross Section (RCS) data within a conformant CDB data store. | |||
![]() | 16-070r4 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This CDB volume provides the information and guidance required to store vector data and attributes using the Esri Shapefile specification in a CDB data store. All shape types are supported to represent point, line, and polygon features. | |||
![]() | 16-005r4 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
This document provides the Annexes for the CDB Core: Model and Physical Structure Standard. The only exception is Annex A, Abstract Test Suite (ATS). The CDB ATS Annex is in Volume 1: Core document. | |||
![]() | 15-120r6 | Carl Reed | 2021-02-26 |
The CDB standard defines a standardized model and structure for a single, “versionable,” virtual representation of the earth. A CDB structu...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 15-005r2 | DGIWG | 2021-02-26 |
This document defines the DGIWG profile for the ISO 19142:2010 - Web Feature Service (WFS) including changes made in the OpenGIS Web Feature...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 20-095 | DGIWG | 2021-02-25 |
This OGC Best Practice was developed by the Defence Geospatial Information Working Group to address defense and intelligence user community re...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 09-102r3 | DGIWG | 2021-02-25 |
This document defines specific DGIWG requirements, recommendations and guidelines for implementations of the ISO and OGC Web Map Service sta...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-003r3 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This OGC Best Practice, a volume of the CDB document set, provides a list and description of the instance-level attribution fields held in ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-006r4 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This document provides detailed implementation guidance for developing and maintaining a CDB compliant data store. | |||
![]() | 16-011r4 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
Volume 8 of the CDB standard defines the conceptual model and the methodologies that allow the description, and transformation or conversio...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-010r4 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This CDB Volume provides Guidelines, Clarifications, Rationales, Primers, and additional information for the definition and use of various ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-009r4 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This volume defines the OpenFlight implementation requirements for a CDB conformant data store. Please also see Volume 1 OGC CDB Core Stand...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-004r4 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This CDB volume provides all of the information required to store Radar Cross Section (RCS) data within a conformant CDB data store. Ple...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-070r3 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This CDB volume provides the information and guidance required to store vector data and attributes using the Esri Shapefile specification in a CDB data store. All shape types are supported to represent point, line, and polygon features. | |||
![]() | 16-005r3 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
This document provides the Annexes for the CDB Core: Model and Physical Structure standard. The only exception is Annex A, Abstract Test Suite. The CDB ATS Annex is in Volume 1: Core document. | |||
![]() | 15-120r5 | Carl Reed | 2018-12-19 |
The CDB standard defines a standardized model and structure for a single, “versionable,” virtual representation of the earth. A C...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-114r3 | Martin Desruisseaux | 2018-12-18 |
The netCDF Moving Features encoding extension is a summary of conventions that supports efficient exchange of simple moving featur...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-086r3 | Jürgen Seib, Marie-Françoise Voidrot-Martinez, Chris Little | 2018-04-05 |
This document proposes a set of best practices and guidelines for implementing and using the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 17-011r2 | Alex Robin | 2018-01-18 |
This document describes new JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) encodings for the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Data Model and ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 15-107 | Jeremy Tandy, Linda van den Brink, Payam Barnaghi | 2017-09-28 |
This document advises on best practices related to the publication of spatial data on the Web; the use of Web technologies as they may be applied t...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-140r1 | Kyoung-Sook KIM, Hirotaka OGAWA | 2017-06-28 |
This document proposes a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) encoding representation of movement of geographic features as an encodi...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-003r2 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
This OGC Best Practice, a volume of the CDB document set, provides a list and description of the instance-level attribution field...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-006r3 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
This document provides detailed implementation guidance for developing and maintaining a CDB compliant data store. | |||
![]() | 16-011r3 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
Volume 8 of the CDB standard defines the conceptual model and the methodologies that allow the description, and transformation or...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-010r3 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
This CDB Volume provides Guidelines, Clarifications, Rationales, Primers, and additional information for the definition and use o...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-009r3 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
This volume defines the OpenFlight implementation requirements for a CDB conformant data store. Please also see Volume 1 OGC CDB ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-004r3 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
(RCS) data within a conformant CDB data store. Please note that the current CDB standard only provides encoding rules for usin...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 16-070r2 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
This CDB volume provides the information and guidance required to store vector data and attributes using the Esri Shapefile specification in a CDB data store. All shape types are supported to represent point, line, and polygon features. | |||
![]() | 16-005r2 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
This document provides the Annexes for the CDB Core: Model and Physical Structure standard. The only exception is Annex A, Abstract Test Suite. The CDB ATS Annex is in Volume 1: Core document. | |||
![]() | 15-120r4 | Carl Reed | 2017-02-23 |
The CDB standard defines a standardized model and structure for a single, “versionable”, virtual representation of the earth. A C...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 14-110r2 | Dimitri Sarafinof | 2016-11-02 |
Coverages represent space/time-varying phenomena, such as satellite imagery, digital elevation models, or digital aerial imagery. ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 15-005r1 | Stefan Strobel, Dimitri Sarafinof, David Wesloh, Paul Lacey | 2016-02-01 |
This document defines the DGIWG profile for the ISO 19142:2010 - Web Feature Service (WFS) including changes made in the OpenGI...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 09-102r3 | Stefan Strobel, Dimitri Sarafinof, David Wesloh, Paul Lacey | 2016-01-29 |
This document defines specific DGIWG requirements, recommendations and guidelines for implementations of the ISO and OGC Web Ma...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 15-037 | George Percivall | 2015-10-01 |
Responding to an oil spill requires access to and understanding of many types of information. Effective, coordinated operations f...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 15-003 | David Graham | 2015-07-22 |
The Common DataBase (CDB) Specification provides the means for a single, versionable, simulation-rich, synthetic representation o...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 15-004 | David Graham | 2015-07-22 |
The Common DataBase (CDB) Specification provides the means for a single, versionable, simulation-rich, synthetic representation o...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 14-106 | Carl Reed, Jennifer Harne | 2015-01-30 |
This document provides an overview of the Unified Geo-data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety (Unified Model). The ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 13-039 | Nicolas Fanjeau, Sebastian Ulrich | 2014-12-29 |
This document provides a specification of an OpenSearch extension for Earth Observation Satellites Tasking. This OGC Best Practice ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 14-003 | Simon J D Cox, Bruce A Simons | 2014-12-02 |
This Best Practice describes how to configure XML documents for single and time series water quality measurements. In addition to sta...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 14-004r1 | Volker Andres, Simon Jirka , Michael Utech | 2014-10-20 |
This OGC document defines an OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0 hydrology profile for SOS 2.0 implementations serving OGC Wa...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 14-012r1 | Nicolas FANJEAU, Sebastian ULRICH | 2014-07-17 |
This OGC® Best Practices document specifies the interfaces, bindings, requirements and conformance classes that enable complete w...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 07-118r9 | P. Denis, P. Jacques | 2014-04-28 |
This OGC Best Practice describes how user and identity management information may be included in the protocol specifications for ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 13-042 | Daniele Marchionni | 2014-04-28 |
This OGC Best Practices document specifies the interfaces, bindings, requirements, conformance classes that enable complete workf...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 12-111r1 | Marie-Françoise Voidrot-Martinez, Chris Little, Jürgen Seib, Roy Ladner, Adrian Custer, Jeff de La B | 2014-04-14 |
This document proposes a set of best practices and guidelines for implementing and using the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 13-015 | EO2HEAVEN Consortium | 2014-02-25 |
This document comprises experiences and recommendations when using Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) concepts. This document focuses o...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 11-169r1 | Simon Jirka, Christoph Stasch, Arne Bröring | 2014-02-25 |
This Best Practice document describes a lightweight SOS 2.0 profile for stationary in-situ sensors. Besides the SOS itself this ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 12-066 | Linda van den Brink, Jantien Stoter, Sisi Zlatanova | 2014-01-31 |
This paper presents key aspects of the development of a Dutch 3D standard IMGeo as a CityGML ADE. The new ADE is modeled using UM...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 13-043 | Daniele Marchionni, Raul Cafini | 2014-01-31 |
This OGC® Best Practices document specifies the interfaces, bindings, requirements, conformance classes for online download of E...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 11-135r2 | Peter Baumann | 2013-06-18 |
This document specifies a Name Type Specification (NTS) for predefined, combined, and parameterized Coordinate Reference System (...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 11-035r1 | Frédéric Houbie, Steven Smolders | 2013-03-26 |
This is an OGC Best Practice document describing the relations that exist between several metadata conceptual models (EO Product,...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 12-032r2 | Rahul Thakkar, Michael Maraist | 2012-12-05 |
This OGC Best Practice (BP) describes web interface specifications for the access and dissemination of Wide Area Motion Imagery (...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 08-167r2 | Frédéric Houbie, Philippe Duchesne, Patrick Maué | 2012-10-10 |
In this OGC Best Practice, the concept of semantic annotations is introduced. Annotation of Web Services or data compliant to OGC...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 10-189r2 | Frédéric Houbie; Fabian Skivee | 2012-06-12 |
This OGC® document specifies the Earth Observation Products Extension Package for ebXML Registry Information Model 3.0, based on ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 11-122r1 | Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos, Jeff Harrison | 2012-02-17 |
This document defines a Gazetteer Service profile of the OGC Web Feature Service Standard. The OGC Gazetteer Service allows a cli...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 09-153r1 | Peter Baumann | 2012-01-25 |
This document provides an overview on the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0 suite by describing WCS core and extensions. Inten...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 07-118r8 | P Denis | 2010-09-08 |
This document describes how user and identity management information may be included in the protocol specifications for OGC Servi...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 10-003r1 | Louis Hecht, Jr., Raj Singh | 2010-06-04 |
The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner Operator, Phase 1 (AECOO-1) Testbed developed and implemented methods to strea...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 10-028r1 | Andrea Biancalana, Pier Giorgio Marchetti, Paul Smits | 2010-06-04 |
This document has been written on the basis of a methodology developed within the GIGAS Support Action financed by the European C...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 07-063r1 | Thomas H.G. Lankester | 2009-11-05 |
This OGC document specifies a constrained, consistent interpretation of the WMS specification that is applicable to government, academic and commercial providers of EO products. | |||
![]() | 09-102 | Cyril Minoux | 2009-09-02 |
This document specifies requirements for systems providing maps using OGC Web Map Service. The document defines a profile of OGC ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 06-126r2 | Chuck Morris | 2009-07-21 |
This document establishes Compliance Test Language, an XML grammar for documenting and scripting suites of tests for verifying that an implementation of a specification complies with the specification. | |||
![]() | 08-139r3 | George Demmy, Carl Reed | 2011-01-17 |
The intended audience of this document is a developer of software for creating and consuming geo=registered PDF documents that co...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 08-125r1 | Tim Wilson, David Burggraf | 2009-02-04 |
This OGC® Best Practices Document provides guidelines for developing the OGC KML standard in a manner that best serves and suppor...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 07-092r3 | Arliss Whiteside | 2009-01-15 |
This document specifies Universal Resource Names (URNs) in the “ogc” URN namespace to be used for identifying definitions. These ...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 06-021r4 | Ingo Simonis | 2008-08-20 |
This document describes the architecture implemented by Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement Initiative (SWE). In contrast to other OGC SWE stan-dards, this document is not an implementation standard. | |||
![]() | 07-107r3 | Carl Reed | 2008-05-02 |
This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace that is engineered by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for naming persistent resources published by the OGC. The formal Namespace identifier (NID) is ogc. | |||
![]() | 07-018r2 | Philippe M | 2008-01-21 |
The SPS configuration proposed in this profile is intended to support the programming process of Earth Observation (EO) sensors s...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 07-097 | Thomas Uslander (Ed.) | 2007-10-05 |
This document specifies the Reference Model for the ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA). It is an extension of the OGC Reference Model...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 06-188r1 | Simon Cox | 2007-05-17 |
This specification describes a GML encoding for discrete coverages. The encoding pattern is a variation from the standard GML Cov...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 06-028r3 | Ingo Simonis | 2007-05-16 |
The Sensor Alert Service (SAS) can be compared with an event notification system. The sensor node is the object of interest. Each node has to advertise its publications at a SAS (advertise). | |||
![]() | 06-095 | Ingo Simonis, Johannes Echterhoff | 2007-01-25 |
A service by which a client may conduct asynchronous dialogues (message interchanges) with one or more other services. This serv...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 06-142r1 | Carl Reed, PhD. and Martin Thomson | 2007-05-17 |
This document defines an application schema of the Geography Markup Language (GML) version 3.1.1 for XML encoding of various geom...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 06-129r1 | Patrick Neal, John Davidson, Bruce Westcott | 2006-12-26 |
The OpenGIS® Catalogue Service Interface Standard 2.0.1 - FGDC CSDGM Application Profile for CSW 2.0 explains how Catalogue Servi...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 05-035r2 | Jens Fitzke, Rob Atkinson | 2006-07-27 |
This document defines a Gazetteer Service profile of the OGC Web Feature Service Specification. The OGC Gazetteer Service allows a client to search and retrieve elements of a georeferenced vocabulary of well-known place-names. | |||
![]() | 03-002r9 | Craig Bruce | 2006-01-18 |
This OGC Best Practices document specifies a binary encoding format for the efficient representation of XML data, especially scie...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 05-042r2 | Arliss Whiteside | 2005-11-21 |
This document summarizes the most significant aspects of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services architecture, which th...Click to continue reading | |||
![]() | 02-007r4 | John Bobbitt | 2002-08-19 |
Common semantic for units of measurement to be used across all OGC specifications. |
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