Browsing OGC Best Practices by Issue Date

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    • Web Feature Service Implementation Specification, Verson 1.1.0. 

      Vretanos, Panagiotis, A (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2005)
      The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed a member consensus that when software vendors implement their products in compliance with open geospatial web service interface and data encoding specifications, end-users ...

    • OpenGIS web services architecture description. 

      Whiteside, Arliss (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2005)
      This document describes many aspects of the OGC web services architecture, which the OGC is currently developing. This architecture is a service-oriented architecture, with all components providing one or more services ...

    • Web Map Context Documents. Version 1.1.0. 

      Sonnet, Jerome (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2005)
      This document is the result of work begun during the first and second OGC Web Mapping Testbeds in 1999 and 2000 by IONIC Software and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and demonstrated by IONIC ...

    • GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery (GMLJP2) Encoding Specification. Version 1.0.0. 

      Kyle, Martin; Burggraf, David; Forde, Sean; Lake, Ron (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2006)
      The OpenGIS® GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery Encoding Standard defines the means by which the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Standard http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml is used within JPEG 2000 ...

    • Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification. Version 1.1.0. (revision 4). 

      Muller, Markus (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2006)
      The OpenGIS® Symbology Encoding Standard (SES) defines an XML language for styling information that can be applied to digital geographic feature and coverage data. SE is independent of any OGC Web Services descriptions and ...

    • Reference Model for the ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA). Version 2 (Rev 2.1). 

      Uslander, Thomas (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2007)
      This document specifies the Reference Model for the ORCHESTRA Architecture (RM-OA). It is an extension of the OGC Reference Model and contains a specification framework for the design of geospatial service-oriented ...

    • OpenGIS Sensor Planning Service Application Profile for EO Sensors, Version: 0.9.5. 

      Merigot, Philippe (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2007)
      This OGC Best Practice document explains how Sensor Planning Service is organised and implemented for the Earth Observation domain. The final goal being to agree to a coherent set of interfaces for sending a programming ...

    • GML Encoding of Discrete Coverages (interleaved pattern). 

      Cox, Simon (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2007)
      This specification was developed under the OWS 4 initiative as part of the Sensor Web Enablement thread. It provides an encoding for coverage data that may be used as the value of the result of an Observation, as well as ...

    • OGC Sensor Web Enablement Architecture, Version: 0.4.0. 

      Simonis, Ingo (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2008)
      This document describes the architecture implemented by Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement Initiative (SWE). In contrast to other OGC SWE standards, this document is not an implementation standard. In ...

    • OpenGIS Web Map Services - Profile for EO Products, Version:0.3.3. 

      Lankester, Thomas H.G. (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2009)
      The WMS configuration proposed in this profile is intended to support the interactive visualization and evaluation of Earth Observation (EO) data products. The profile describes a consistent Web Map Server (WMS) configuration ...

    • User Management Interfaces for Earth Observation Services, Version 1.0. 

      Denis, P. (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2010)
      This OGC Best Practice is complementary to a set of OGC Services and related standards and specifications that describe services for managing Earth Observation (EO) data products. These services include collection level, ...

    • GIGAS Methodology for Comparative Analysis of Information and Data Management Systems, Version 0.5.0. 

      Biancalana, A.; Marchetti, P.G.; Smits, P. (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2010)
      The methodology described into this document is one of the tools that the GIGAS consortium developed to examining the requirements, architectures and standards applied in the systems in order to provide an evaluation of ...

    • EO Product Collection, Service and Sensor Discovery using the CS-W edRIM Catalogue. Version 1. 

      Houbie, Frederic; Smolders, Steven (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2013)
      This is an OGC Best Practice document describing the relations that exist between several metadata conceptual models (EO Product, EO Product Collections, Sensors and Services). The specification of the linking between ...

    • OGC OWS Context Atom Encoding Standard, Version 1.0. 

      Brackin, Roger; Gonçalves, Pedro (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2013)
      This standard describes the Atom encoding of the OWC Context conceptual model. The goal of this standard is to provide a definition of how to encode a context document, which can be extended to allow a context referencing ...

    • OGC OpenSearch Extension for Earth Observation Satellite Tasking: Best Practice. Version 1.0. 

      Fanjeau, Nicolas; Ulrich, Sebastian (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)
      This document provides a specification of an OpenSearch extension for Earth Observation Satellites Tasking. This OGC Best Practice is intended to provide a very simple way to task Earth Observation (EO) satellites ...

    • OGC® SensorML: Model and XML Encoding Standard, Version 2.0.0. 

      Robin, Alexandre; Botts, Mike (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)
      The primary focus of the Sensor Model Language (SensorML) is to provide a robust and semantically-tied means of defining processes and processing components associated with the measurement and post-measurement transformation ...

    • OGC RESTful encoding of OGC Sensor Planning Service for Earth Observation satellite Tasking. 

      Fanjeau, Nicolas; Ulrich, Sebastian (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)
      The scope of this Best Practice document is to describe the interfaces for providing an interoperable access to the tasking capabilities of various types of earth observation systems. The interfaces can be used for ...

    • OGC Sensor Observation Service 2.0 Hydrology Profile. Version 1.0. 

      Andres, Volker; Jirka, Simon; Utech, Michael (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)
      This OGC document defines an OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0 hydrology profile for SOS 2.0 implementations serving OGC WaterML 2.0. The development of this OGC Best Practice (BP) is based on previous activities ...

    • OGC Best Practice for Sensor Web Enablement Lightweight SOS Profile for Stationary In-Situ Sensors, Version 1.0. 

      Jirka, Simon; Stasch, Christoph; Bröring, Arne (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)
      This document presents a lightweight profile for the SOS 2.0 standard. This profile is specifically designed for the provision of observations gathered by stationary in-situ sensors. Attention is drawn to the possibility ...

    • OGC RESTful Encoding of Ordering Services Framework For Earth Observation Products. Version 1.0. 

      Marchionni, Daniele (Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)
      This OGC Best Practices document specifies the interfaces, bindings, requirements, conformance classes that enable complete workflows for ordering Earth Observation (EO) data products. In fact it provides the interfaces ...