Abstract
Abstract. The necessity of open standards for effective sharing and use of remote sensing continues to receive increasing emphasis in policies of agencies and projects around the world. Coordination on the development of open standards for geospatial information is a vital step to insure that the technical standards are ready to support the policy objectives. The mission of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is to advance development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability. To accomplish this mission, OGC serves as the global forum for the collaboration of geospatial data / solution providers and users. Photogrammetry and remote sensing are sources of the largest and most complex geospatial information. Some of the most mature OGC standards for remote sensing include the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards, the Web Coverage Service (WCS) suite of standards, encodings such as NetCDF, GMLJP2 and GeoPackage, and the soon to be approved Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) standard. In collaboration with ISPRS, OGC working with government, research and industrial organizations continue to advance the state of geospatial standards for full use of photogrammetry and remote sensing.
Highlights
In the recently published “Common Framework for Earth Observation Data” the US President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP, 2016) declared that:
Standards and common practices for earth observations have been developed by organizations like ISPRS and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) is an international, not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community
Summary
In the recently published “Common Framework for Earth Observation Data” the US President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP, 2016) declared that:. “By standardizing the protocols for finding, accessing, and using Earth-observation data, the Common Framework will make it easier to obtain and assemble data from diverse sources for improved analysis, understanding, decision-making, community resilience, and commercial use.”. The OSTP Common Framework is a bold approach that builds and goes beyond previous policies applying open standards to Earth Observations including remote sensed data. Standards and common practices for earth observations have been developed by organizations like ISPRS and the OGC. The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) is an international, not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community. These standards are made through a consensus process and are freely available. Data Models and Encodings are used across the multiple services
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