Webinars and Virtual Events

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).

The global weather sector is undergoing revolutionary change. With major advancements in sensing, data collection and analytics via new satellite, in-situ and airborne observations,   Industry contributions to observations and analytics important to weather prediction is increasing rapidly, and are outpacing  government-owned and operated capabilities.  

The concept of smart cities is widely touted, yet little consensus exists on its definition or implementation. Many technologies are available, yet no single solution has emerged that can be applied to all cities around the world.

To understand better the technologies available as well as some of the best practices underway, IEC SyC Smart Cities is hosting its first virtual workshop to discuss the sustainable digital transformation of cities. The workshop will focus on disruptive technologies and how standards can be used to support the roll-out and implementation of these technologies.

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.

Join our community of experts for an upcoming series of webinars highlighting recent achievements and findings across OGC's working groups.  From standards to domain-oriented innovations, the OGC community is actively working to make location information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).

This webinar series will focuson on a few of OGC's Domain and Standards working groups as a precusor to our upcoming June Members meeting. Not an OGC member? Join now. 

Theme: COVID-19 and After- How OGC/members are assisting Governments/communities in containment of the pandemic and planning for future

In January, 2020 EUROGI started a discussion regarding what spatial data focussed paradigm or framework would be appropriate in a current and emerging technological and socio-economic world, a world very different from that which existed when the SDI paradigm was developed in the late 1980s/early 1990s. EUROGI invited geospatial thought leaders from around the world to provide short submissions on how they viewed the issue of Beyond SDI.

Leveraging data as a context for decision making provides already benefits on a daily basis ranging from personal navigation, to points-of-interest recommendations, proximity alerts, and corporate asset tracking. In this webinar, the Open Geospatial Consortium will present use cases, technologies and projections from the recently concluded Location Powers: Data Science Summit.

In this Sprint, participants will experiment with and validate the current draft OGC API - Tiles specification. OGC API - Tiles seeks to serve the same function as OGC’s Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) - a well-established and commonly implemented OGC standard first issued in 2007 - using the latest technologies and spatial data on the web best practices, such as OpenAPI.