OGC Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment

The Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment will consolidate a portion of the Ocean-Observing community on its understanding of various OGC specifications, solidify demonstrations for Ocean Science application areas, harden software implementations, and produce a candidate OGC Best Practices document that can be used to inform the broader ocean-observing community. To achieve these goals, the Oceans IE will engage the OGC membership to assure that any community recommendations coming from the Oceans group will properly leverage the OGC standards. Potentially, Change Requests for existing OGC Standards will be provided to the OGC Technical Committee to influence the underlying standards.

The first phase of the Ocean IE is focusing on these areas:

• Web Services for Interoperable Ocean Science.
• Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) in particular Observations & Measurements and SensorML.
• Web Feature Service (WFS) for accessing raw sensor observations
• Sensor Observation Service (SOS) for accessing raw sensor observations observations.