Webinars and Virtual Events

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) invite software developers to a joint Virtual Code Sprint to advance multiple ASF, OSGeo projects, and OGC standards - including OGC API standards, the building blocks for location.

As an OGC Innovation Program (IP) activity, Testbed-16 emphasized the evaluation of what should be in a specification, how the specification should act, and how specification-based software should respond. Draft specifications and change requests are feeding the OGC Standards Program, where they are being reviewed, revised, and potentially approved as new international open standards that can reach millions of individuals Join OGC for a one hour session recapping the key findings of Testbed-16, and how they will feed into our upcoming Testbed-17 iniatitive. Innovation starts here.

Urban areas are facing enormous challenges: escalating population and energy consumption, connected and automated transport, information system development to meet resident and governance needs. Digital twins at the urban scale are transforming how cities are planned, built, and managed to better deliver services to citizens. Digital twins generally include static point-in-time models of the physical objects, as well as, dynamic models that update predictions in near real time using ubiquitous sensor feeds. Building on previous smart city developments, Urban Digital Twins - using the fundamental framework of space and time - will become the tools and methods for high density human settlements to be more livable, inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

This OGC Member Portal Training Webinar will provide you with introductory guidance on how to gain access to OGC’s portal, an online tool used to connect and empower our global community of location experts. This 1 hour guided tour will show you how to manage your membership, explain the difference between Standards Working Groups and Domain Working Groups (SWGs and DWGs), and will feature a Q&A session with our staff. This webinar will be recorded and available on our website.

‘New Space’ is a paradigm driven by a combination of technology and market advances such as rocket launches, small satellites, orbital planes, evolving sensors, and ground infrastructures. With this in mind, the location community must have a platform for understanding the impacts of New Space on standards, data integration and decision making. Join OGC and EARSC for a two-day session from a global perspective revolving around impacts, dynamics, and standards in New Space that highlights these new technologies, the information powering them, and how they are integrated. 
 

GeoVolumes API is a way to unify access to global 3D model and terrain data across a range of formats, platforms, and technologies. Join OGC and the greater location community for this one hour webinar and learn about developing viable 3D solutions through implementer-friendly and easily understandable APIs that make location information more accessible than ever before.

OGC is hosting three OGC API Sprints for Q3 2020. These sprints will each be held as two-day remote participation/web conferencing events during July, August, and September, 2020. Registration for the Q3 2020 OGC API Sprints is here. The sprints will cover the draft OGC API - Common, OGC API - Maps and OGC API - Coverages specifications, as well as the draft Part 4 of the OGC API - Features standard. These draft specifications come from OGC’s concerted effort to create modular, resource-oriented API standards that use OpenAPI for describing interfaces that offer geographic information over the web - known collectively as the OGC API family of standards.

You are invited to a webinar to launch an OGC Questionnaire on Commissioning Geospatial Research. The webinar will be held on Wednesday 9th September, 2020 at 10:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM UTC / 3:00 PM BST. The webinar will present a questionnaire that has been prepared by OGC, Ordnance Survey and KU Leuven staff on behalf of the OGC University DWG to facilitate collection of feedback about practices on the commissioning of geospatial PhD research across the globe. OGC would like to better understand the methodologies, mechanisms, challenges and opportunities that organisations go through when they commission geospatial PhD research. The results will be presented to the OGC Technical Committee and will inform academia, government and private sector organisations about opportunities for commissioning geospatial PhD research. The questionnaire will close on 31 December 2020.

With the volume of EO data now growing at a rate measured in the order of petabytes, transporting or transferring the data from the data provider(s) out to the end user is no longer feasible.  As such, OGC has been working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to further ESA’s “EO Exploitation Platforms” initiative. This initiative aims at achieving a paradigm shift from “bring the data to the user” (users download data to a local machine or data store) to “bring the user to the data” (move user exploitation to hosted environments with co-located computing and storage). 

This webinar aims to present to EO application developers and EO platform operators the work that has been undertaken by OGC, ESA, and Natural Resources Canada. Implementers will share experiences and lessons learned on how to best exploit Big EO data stores and how to enable externally developed applications as additional services on EO platforms.

On 2-3 September the URBIS Smart City Fair will be organised in Brno, Czech Republic, mainly delivered by the City of Brno, a Fellow City in Horizon 2020 Lighthouse Project RUGGEDISED. At the same time and in a hybrid format (both online and in Brno), the EIP-SCC will host its yearly General Assembly.  OGC's president, Bart De Lathouwer, will share his views as OGC president and Espresso coordinator in the session – Digital Transition of Cities and Communities – What is next in the post-Covid era? organised in partnership with DG CNECT virtually (3 September, 10:50 to 12.15).