OGC and the Geosciences - IGARSS 2010 Tutorial
"OGC and the Geosciences" - a tutorial at IGARSS 2010 July 25, 2010, 08:30 - 12:30
This tutorial provides an overview of standards from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and their use in the geosciences. The OGC is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization.
Geosciences have been a main driver for OGC standards. Concepts from geodesy, remote sensing, metrology, and science informatics were used to define the standards. The standards have been applied both before and after adoption to the fields of hydrology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, land cover, and many other scientific domains of the geosciences. Geoscience applications will be presented showing use of OGC standards for data and
information discovery, access, processing, fusion and decision-support.
The tutorial was developed and presented by George Percivall, OGC. Arnulf Christl, Metaspatial, developed most of the exercises.
All presentations are available in a single zip file (40 MB). Individual presentation files are linked in the outline below.
All exercises are available in a single zip file (28 MB)
Tutorial outline (detailed outline is below):
e1. KML exercise
2. Standards for geoscience information
e2. CSML feature exercise
Break
4. Sensor Web Enablement standards
e3/4. OWS operation exercise
5. Geoweb - a global community
e5. OWS client exercise
6. Applying this on your system
Expanded outline
1. Why open standards matter
What do we mean by open standards?
The value of open standards
The OGC organization and programs
OGC Standards
e1. KML exercise
2. Standards for geoscience information
Coordinate Reference Systems
Geographic Features and Coverages
Geophysical Observations
Environmental Models
Metadata and Geosemantics
e2. CSML feature exercise
3. OGC Web Service standards
Services Framework
WMS, WFS, WCS
WPS and Workflow
Events and Geosynchronization
Security and DRM
4. Sensor Web Enablement standards
Sensor Web Concepts
SWE Languages and Encodings
SWE Service Standards
SWE Implementations
e3/4. OWS operation exercise
5. Geoweb - a global community
Clients, Portals and
Visualization
LBS and Mobile Internet
Internet and Mass Market
Fusion
e5. OWS client exercise
6. Applying this on your system
Implementation and Compliance
Policy and Procurements
Example Implementations
Resources to apply this on your system