OGC Testbed 11

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Sponsors
  3. Goals
  4. Schedule
  5. Outcomes
  6. Engineering Reports (by Thread)
  7. Participating Organizations
  8. Next Steps

Overview

The results of this major interoperability testbed, which began in 2015, were demonstrated on 4 June 2015 during the OGC Technical Committee meeting held in Boulder, CO. The results will contribute to development and refinement of international standards that are critical for the communication and integration of geospatial information. Results from this testbed and previous OGC testbeds provide a foundation for the next OGC testbed, Testbed 12, which will begin in September 2015. If you want to learn more about the Testbed 12 Call for Sponsors, please contact Terry Idol, Executive Director, Interoperability Program, (tidol[at]opengeospatial.org).

In December 2014 the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) released a Policy Fact Sheet titled “Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience.” The Fact Sheet lists OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11, identified in the OSTP document and sponsored by an international group of government agencies, supports national climate-change preparedness by focusing on the spatial information to illustrate potential impacts that would lead to populations being displaced due to coastal inundation.

Nine Testbed 11 sponsors documented interoperability requirements and objectives for this activity. Thirty organizations selected to participate in Testbed 11 then developed solutions based on the sponsors’ use cases, requirements and scenarios described in a Call for Proposals. Participants’ solutions implement existing OGC standards as well as prototypes of possible interface and encoding candidate standards. Some of the prototypes may ultimately become OGC standards, revisions to existing OGC standards, or best practices for using OGC standards.

Sponsors

Testbed 11 Sponsors included:

Goals

Testbed participants addressing requirements in the sponsors’ scenario developed interoperability solutions to meet these goals:

Those testbed goals were organized into these four technology threads:

Testbed 11 Threads (image)

Schedule

 

Milestone Completion Date
RFQ/CFP Release 22-Oct-14
Announce to TC 22-Oct-14
RFQ Release 22-Oct-14
Bidder’s Q&A Webinar 30-Oct-14
RFQ Responses Due 21-Nov-14
“Kickoff @ GMU, Fairfax Campus 12-14 January 2015
Preliminary Design and Implementations 26-Feb-15
Final Delivery (all deliverables and demo materials) 30-May-15
Demonstration (at TC in Boulder, CO) 4-Jun-15

Demonstrated Outcomes

On 4 June, 2015, the OGC demonstrated the results of the eleventh OGC Interoperability Testbed. The demonstration was held during the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Testbed 11 participants documented the results of the Testbed in OGC Engineering Reports and are listed in the following table. The Engineering Reports (ERs) are being finalized for publication as Public Engineering Reports. The table will provide a link to the published ER as they become available.

The demonstrated results have enormous potential for the testbed stakeholders – both technology users and the technology providers – and for the world at large. The return on the shared investment in spatial standards is extraordinary, much like the return on the original shared investments in http and html.

Engineering Reports (by Thread)

The following tables identify the ERs developed during this Testbed 11, organized by Thread. Links will be added to each of the ERs, as they become available, to facilitate locating and downloading the documents on the OGC Public Engineering Reports page.

In addition to these task related ERs, the OGC will publish a high-level summary ER that provides more details about Testbed 11. This summary ER will be available on the OGC Public Engineering Reports page as identified below:

15-083 Testbed 11 Summary ER

ER document numbers shown are the base document number not necessarily reflecting the final revision of the document upon release to public. For the latest released version of each document refer to the OGC Public Engineering Reports page.

Urban-Climate Resilience
15-067 OGC Testbed 11 GeoPackaging Engineering Report
15-068 OGC Testbed 11 Multi-dimensional GeoPackage Supporting Terrain and Routes Engineering Report
15-046 OGC Testbed 11 High Resolution Flood Information Scenario Engineering Report
15-065 Testbed 11 Referenceable Grid Harmonization ER
15-010 Summary Report of Findings for WFS-T Information Exchange Architecture ER
15-011 Reference Case Study of Multiple WFS-T Interoperability ER
15-073 Testbed 11 DGIWG GMLJP2 Testing ER
Cross-Community Interoperability
15-053 Implementing JSON/GeoJSON in an OGC Standard
15-052 REST Interface ER
15-054 Implementing Linked Data and Semantically Enabling OGC Services ER
15-066 Testbed 11 Use of Semantic Linked Data with RDF for National Map NHD and Gazetteer Data ER
15-056 Catalogue Service Analysis and Recommendation ER
15-057 Incorporating Social Media in Emergency Response ER
15-058 Symbology Mediation ER
15-077 Testbed 11 SOAP Interface Engineering Report
Aviation
15-025 OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Architecture Engineering Report
15-024 OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Guidance on Using SVBR Engineering Report
15-027 OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Digital NOTAM Validation and Enrichment
15-028 OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Data Broker Specifications
15-026 OGC Testbed 11 Aviation – Aviation Feature Schema Recommendations
Geo4NIEM
15-022 Testbed 11 – Implementing Common Security Across the OGC Suite of Service Standards
15-051 Geo4NIEM Architecture Design and Implementation ER and Fact Sheet
15-048 NIEM & IC Data Encoding Specification Assessment and Architecture ER
15-050 Test and Demonstration Results for NIEM Using IC Data Encoding Specifications ER
15-030 NIEM-GML-NIEM Round Trip Assessment and Recommendations ER
15-047 NIEM-GML Feature Processing API using OGC Web Services ER

Participating Organizations

Organization Name
52North
Arizona State University (ASU)
Atmosphere Systems and Services
Carbon Project
Compusult
con terra
CubeWerx
Envitia
Esri
Galdos
Geomatys
GIS.FCU
George Mason University (GMU-CSISS)
IBM Cloudant
Image Matters
interactive instruments
Jericho Systems Corp
KEYW
lat/lon
Luciad
m-click
Remote Sensing Solutions
Safe Software
European Union Satellite Center/Jacobs University
Secure Dimensions
Snowflake Software
UAB-CREAF
UniBwM

Next Steps

Sponsors have already begun assembling interoperability requirements for Testbed 12, which will begin in the fall. Current prospective sponsors and the OGC invite other organizations to bring their requirements into the discussion.

If you want to learn more about the Testbed 12 Call for Sponsors, please contact Terry Idol, Executive Director, Interoperability Program, (tidol[at]opengeospatial.org). See http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/programs/ip for more information about the 15 year old OGC Interoperability Program in which OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are organized, planned and managed.

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