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Future DirectionsLinking People, Policy and Place

Through Interoperability

Mark E. Reichardt

President & CEO

mreichardt@opengeospatial.org

+1 301 840-1361

A man walks in to a room to talk about A man walks in to a room to talk about interoperability & standardsinteroperability & standards))

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Pandemic Disease EventsPandemic Disease Events

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Extreme Weather / Climate ChangeExtreme Weather / Climate Change

Source: VirtualSteve at the English language WikipediaOxfam East Africa at http://flickr.com/photos/46434833@N05/5933226731

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Source: GSDI9 Presentation: "Working Together With Water: A living land builds for its future", Bart Parmet

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Den Haag

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AmsterdamUtrecht

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Waddenzee

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- 5 m

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Den Haag

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A2Haarlem

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AmsterdamUtrecht

A13

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Source: GSDI9 Presentation: "Working Together With Water: A living land builds for its future", Bart Parmet

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Health

Education & Research Sustainable Development

Consumer Services Geosciences

Public Safety

E -Government

Energy / Utilities

Logistics &

Transport

Defense &

Intelligence

A Diversity of PerspectivesA Diversity of Perspectives

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Fundamental Goal: InteroperabilityFundamental Goal: Interoperability

• You know when you don’t have it:

– Custom Integration

– Increased cost

– Reduced flexibility and agility

– Duplication of effort

– Missed opportunities for improved decision making

– Other consequences http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/apollo13.html

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo13/lores/as13-62-9004.jpg

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Domain Working Groups in OGCDomain Working Groups in OGC

Mountain View CA, USA

December 2009

Bonn, Germany, March 2011

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OGC Interoperability ProgramOGC Interoperability ProgramTesting, Validation, DemonstrationTesting, Validation, Demonstration

• Testbeds, Pilots, Experiments & Plugfests

– Technology providers and users in rapid, hands-on

collaborative engineering efforts

– Produce:

• Tested and validated draft standards and best practices

• Industry technology implementations

• Live demonstrations to validate utility of standards in user

context

– Advance

• Research on the use of IT to help solve geospatial

interoperability problems

• Maturity of interoperable implementations for

organizations to base procurement decisions

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Source: onegeology.org

OGC Based Implementations WorldwideOGC Based Implementations Worldwide

NSDI - India GeoPortal Map Viewer

Geoportal of the Catalonia SDIGeoportal of the Catalonia SDI

OpenIOOS.org

Landgate, Western Australia

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OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) StandardsStandards

�Sensor Model Language (SensorML)

�Observations & Measurements (O&M)

�Sensor Planning Service (SPS)

�Sensor Observation Service (SOS)

�Catalogue Service

�SWE Common Data Model

�SWE Service Model

�PUCK

--Complementary Standards--

�IEEE 1451 smart sensor standard

�OASIS (alert) standards

Enables discovery and tasking of sensor assets, and the access and

application of sensor observations for enhanced situational awareness

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Mobile: Open GeoSMSMobile: Open GeoSMS

• Characteristics

– Multilingual

– Cross Platform / Multi-device

– Harmonized with many

existing applications

– Incorporates relevant

ISO standards

• Significant potential for many applications

• Adopted in 2011

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.9985,

-77.030275&GeoSMS

I am here and need assistance

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Intelligent CitiesIntelligent Cities

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Integration of 3D Built / GeospatialIntegration of 3D Built / Geospatial

• Interoperation across

the AEC / CAD /

Geospatial domains

– 3D City Models

– 3D Visualization

Services

– Location Services

– Indoor Location /

Navigation

• Enabled by StandardsAdapted from BuildingSmart Alliance presentation

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OGC CityGML - Urban Models

• Urban Planning / Operations

• Emergency Mgt / Response

• Transportation / Routing / Logistics

• Retail Site analysis

• Sustainable / Green Communities

• City Services Management

• Noise abatement

• Telecommunications placement

• Tourism

• Many other uses=

www.virtual-berlin.de

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Solar Energy Production AnalysisSolar Energy Production Analysis

Source : LGV Hamburg, Fa. simuPLAN

Assessment of the suitability of roofs

for the production of solar energy and

the estimation of potential CO2 savings

based on the 3D city model of Hamburg

Assessment of the suitability of roofsAssessment of the suitability of roofs

for the production of solar energy and for the production of solar energy and

the estimation of potential CO2 savings the estimation of potential CO2 savings

based on the 3D city model of Hamburgbased on the 3D city model of Hamburg

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Standards Partnerships:Standards Partnerships:From the Doorway to the Urban ViewFrom the Doorway to the Urban View

Adapted from buildingSMART Alliance graphic

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19http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/26/germany-26-of-electricity-from-renewable-energy-in-1st-half-of-2012/

• Prior year renewable

rates

– 2011 20.56%

– 2010 18.3%

• Geospatial

information and

technologies are key

• Policy tools:

– Feed-In Tariffs

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Water ResourcesWater Resources

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OGC Hydrology Domain Working GroupOGC Hydrology Domain Working Group

• Adoption will be through:

– OGC standards, best practices and

related papers

– Through ISO where appropriate

– World Meteorological Organization

(WMO) and it's Commission for

Hydrology (CHy) and Information

Systems (WIS) activities.

• Co-Chaired by OGC and WMO

• 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.

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OGC WaterMLOGC WaterML

• OGC WaterML 2.0 Standard for

data exchange of time series and

sample observations

–Community wide international

encoding standard

–Based on OGC Geography Markup

Language, OGC Observations &

Measurements

–Adoption by OGC in 2012

OGC® WaterML 2.0: Part 1- Time Series

Editor: Peter Taylor, CSIRO

Submitting Organizations:

Australian BOM Natural Resources Canada

CSIRO Kisters AG

CUAHSI Deltares

USGS disy

US NOAA San Diego Super Computer Center

German Federal Institute of Hydrology

Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute

International Office for Water - Sandre

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Emergency / Disaster Emergency / Disaster ManagementManagement

Making Location Count.

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Disaster Prediction and WarningDisaster Prediction and Warning

• Typhoons and earthquakes trigger landslides

and flooding on a frequent basis

• OGC services used with an array of spatial data

and sensors to provide situational awareness for

forecasting, detecting, alerting and response to

debris flow situations.

• Rapidly deployed network of debris flow sensors,

and distributed services performing sensor data

analysis and processing

Source: Feng Chia University, GIS Research Center

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The SituationThe Situation

Typhoon invaded or approximated Taiwan in these 2 decades

Source: Feng Chia University, GIS Research Center

Typhoon Tracks

2008/112008/11

PrePre--typhoontyphoon

2009/82009/8

PostPost--MorakotMorakot

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Monitoring StationsMonitoring Stations

Debris Flow Monitoring Station×21

Landslide Monitoring Station×1

Sediment Concentration Monitoring Station×3

Mobile Debris Flow Monitoring Station ×3

Grid Debris Flow Monitoring Station ×14

01.白布帆站 (Baibufan Station)02.九份二山站 (Jiufen-Ershan Station)03.神木站 (Shenmu Station)04.上安站 (Shang-an Station)05.郡坑站 (Jyunkeng Station)06.豐丘站 (Fongciou Station)07.大粗坑站 (Dacukeng Station)08.鳳義坑站 (Fongyikeng Station)09.射馬干站 (Shemangan Station)10.華山站 (Huashan Station)11.大興站 (Dasing Station)12.豐山站 (Fongshan Station)13.松鶴站 (Songhe Station)14.坪頂站 (PingDing Station)15.蘇樂站 (Suru Station)16.玉峰站 (Yufong Station)17下田埔站 (Shiatainpu Station)18.羌黃坑站 (Cianghuangkeng Station)19.集來站 (Jilai Station)20.來義站 (Laiyi Station)21.大鳥站 (Daniao Station)

Source: Feng Chia University, GIS Research Center

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WhatWhat’’s Next?s Next?

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Aeronautical Info. Management (AIM)Aeronautical Info. Management (AIM)

• Support vision for Aeronautical

Information Management

– Interconnected systems with many actors and many

users

– Need for real-time information used in flight

planning, navigation, rerouting, etc

– Right information at the right time at the right place

to the right user

– End-to-end management of information

• Develop and test standards-based service-

oriented architecture to support the provision

of aeronautical information directly to flight

decks and Electronic Flight Bags (EFB)

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NNEW – NextGEN Network Enabled Weather

TAF – Terminal Aerodrome Forecast

WXXM – Weather Info. Exchange Model

WFS – OGC Web Feature Service

Aeronautical Info. Mgt. ArchitectureAeronautical Info. Mgt. Architecture

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FAA Request for Information FAA Request for Information Draft NextGen Air Transportation Network Enabled Weather (NNEW)Draft NextGen Air Transportation Network Enabled Weather (NNEW)

“Services of the NNEW System and the 4-D Wx Data Cube

will be developed in accordance with Open Geospatial

Consortium (OGC) standards. These include three OGC-

defined service standards: Web Feature Service (WFS), and

Web Coverage Service (WCS), and Web Map Service

(WMS).”

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OGC Web Services PhaseOGC Web Services Phase--9 Testbed9 Testbed

See http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-9

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OWSOWS--9 Testbed Sponsors9 Testbed Sponsors(Providing Requirements and Funding)(Providing Requirements and Funding)

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OWSOWS--9 Participating Organizations9 Participating Organizations

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From data to mobile device in OWSFrom data to mobile device in OWS--99

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Secure data caching on Mobile DevicesSecure data caching on Mobile Devices

Geospatial Data

Archive

Retrieve Data

Base Maps

Go Offline

Geo-Package

ManagementSource: Compusult

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Augmented RealityAugmented Reality

http://www.openarml.org/

http://de.blackberryinsight.com

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Indoor Spaces and Locations Indoor Spaces and Locations

– Semantic 3D city and building

models provide (nowadays)

• the geometry and

• a thematic differentiation of the

indoor areas (at least separation

in building parts, floors and

rooms)

• OGC standard CityGML

– OGC IndoorGML in development

to support indoor navigation

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Other Active Focus AreasOther Active Focus Areas

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Policy and Guidance WorldwidePolicy and Guidance Worldwide

© 2012, Open Geospatial Consortium

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“Interoperability seems to be about the

integration of information. What it’s

really about is the coordination of

organizational behavior.”

David Schell, OGC Founder and

Chairman Emeritus

Observation from OGC FounderObservation from OGC Founder

Taichung, Chinese Taipei, June 2011

United Nations, New York USA,

January 2005

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Thank YouThank You

Mark Reichardt

President & CEO

mreichardt@opengeospatial.org

Denise McKenzie

Executive Director

Marketing & Communications

dmckenzie@opengeospatial.org

www.opengeospatial.org @opengeospatial