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List of Domain Working Groups

Domain Working Groups (DWGs) cover 10 broad domains: Aviation, Built Environment & 3D, Business Intelligence, Defense & Intelligence, Emergency Response and Disaster Management, Energy & Utilities, Geosciences & Environment, Government and Spatial Data Infrastructure, Mobile Internet & Location Services, Sensor Webs, University & Research. By default, a DWG will allow public collaboration. Only public DWGs are listed here and Chairs are omitted.

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Hydrology Domain Working Group

It provides a venue and mechanism for seeking technical and institutional solutions to the challenge of describing and exchanging data describing the state and location of water resources, both above and below the ground surface. The activities of the DWG are designed to address the complexities of hydrologic data management and exchange.

Interoperable Simulation and Gaming Domain Working Group

It provides a forum for the discussion of requirements and use cases for standards and the registration of implementations related to use and re-use of geospatial data within the Interoperable Simulation and Gaming (ISG) community.

Land Administration Domain Working Group

It works on issues related to land administration and is committed to a series of foundational activities aimed at enhancing global land administration systems, with a particular focus on nations facing substantial challenges in this sector. It work centers on the critical evaluation of current land administration systems, the formulation of best practices to expedite and economize standards-based land administration for nations, and the exploration of new information resources and technologies to fast-track the enhancement of land administration capabilities.

Marine Domain Working Group

It is dedicated to addressing the multifaceted technological issues that impact the effective utilization of marine geospatial data beyond the realm of safe navigation. The necessity for standardized use of the burgeoning volumes of marine data, from an array of sources, is pivotal for supporting the Blue Economy.

Metadata and Catalog Domain Working Group

In a world where we create more and more data, the importance of metadata and its discovery process has never been so important. OGC standards are more or less tightly linked to metadata profiles but there is a continuous evolution in requirements for description and discovery processes. The goal of the DWG is to permit discussion and presentations of those requirements and solutions coming from any part of the world for any domains.

Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group

It brings together OGC members in an open forum of the wider meteorological and oceanographic communities to work on oceanographic, meteorological and climatological data, metadata, and web services interoperability, greatly improving the way in which this information is described, shared and used.

Mobile Location Services Domain Working Group

It's functions as a comprehensive “umbrella” group, facilitating discussions on a wide array of specifications and technologies within the realm of mobile location services. The group focuses on identifying the technology requirements and solutions pertinent to Location Services, ensuring that the needs of the industry and users are adequately addressed.

Planetary Domain Working Group

It is engaged in a series of key activities aimed at enhancing the handling, processing, and publishing of spatial planetary data within the context of geospatial technology. The DWG updates and aligns OGC standards with evolving scientific requirements for celestial bodies as determined by the planetary science community. This includes ensuring that these standards are relevant and applicable to the study and exploration of planets, satellites, asteroids, Sun, comets, and other celestial bodies within our solar system that can be spatially resolved to have a disk or surface.

Point Cloud Domain Working Group

It is motivated by the fast growing popularity and use of point cloud technology. This includes a number of formats and types such as: laser scans from aerial and terrestrial platforms (e.g., LiDAR), triangulated elevation points, and dense observations from the meteorological community. It advances the management, interoperability, and standardization of point cloud data within the OGC framework.
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