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About OGC
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is the largest formal community of geospatial experts with a mission to make location information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. OGC members form a global forum of experts and communities from government, industry, nonprofits, and academia that use location to connect people with technology and improve decision-making at all levels. OGC standards are developed in a unique consensus process supported by the OGC’s industry, government and academic members to enable geoprocessing technologies to interoperate, or “plug and play”.
The role of the Open geospatial community
The OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program (COSI) aims to solve challenges in location services across industries and application domains. The geospatial community stewarded by OGC works in partnership with governments and industry across the world and fund members to research and prototype ideas to solve current geolocation problems and gaps.
OGC Standards are the glue to geospatial information interoperability, and are used by thousands of organizations across the globe and represented in millions of lines of code. They are backed by international organizations, used in proposals, and implemented to speed up the process of innovation. OGC Standards include conceptual models, data exchange models, and API specifications.
OGC APIs are a game changer for geospatial interoperability since they are designed to make it easy for anyone to provide and use geospatial data on the web, and to integrate this data with any other type of information. Standard APIs such as OGC API – Processes and OGC API – Features are being constructed as “building blocks” that can be used to assemble novel APIs for web access to geospatial content.
Our contribution to OGC innovation initiatives and standards
We are an active part of the geospatial community. As members of OGC, Skymantics takes a leading role in the development of standards and code basis for interoperability and exchangeability of geospatial information across industries (defense, transportation, emergency, aviation). Learn more about our work in geospatial services.
Skymantics has acted as thread architect for OGC Testbed threads, edited OGC Engineering Reports, and participated in annual Testbeds, Technology Pilots, and Sprints over more than 7 years of membership. We have provided contributions in prototypes and interoperability tests related to Data Fusion, Routing, Data Exchange Models, and Machine Learning, in the fields of Aviation, Disasters Response, and Forestry Management.
Our team is currently contributing in the following standardization areas:
Charter member of Routing Standards Working Group, in charge of developing and maintaining OGC API-Routes core standard and Route Exchange Model (REM).
Charter member of Features and Geometries JSON Standards Working Group, in charge of developing a JSON encoding for geospatial feature data to support new cases such as UAS Traffic Management (UTM).
Charter member of OGC 3D GeoVolumes Standards Working Group, in charge of developing and maintaining OGC API-3D Geovolumes to access 3D geospatial content over the web.
Member of OGC Domain Working Groups (DWG) - Climate Resilience, Emergency and Disaster Management, Health, and Aviation. DWGs are open forums on geospatial data interoperability and access for geospatial applications.
A growing portfolio of interoperable geospatial solutions
As a result of this ongoing fruitful collaboration with OGC, Skymantics has developed a suite of specialized geospatial components and services. These include:
+20 Innovation initiatives contributed
5 Engineering Reports edited
4 OGC Standards supported
Advanced Routing Engine for strategic route planning based on open data, integrating road constraints, risk-based calculations, and traffic rules.
Natural resource management optimizations in logistic networks through use of agent-based models and Reinforcement Learning algorithms.
Data encoding and exchange of aviation trajectories and Uncrewed Air System (UAS) 3D routes with time and geospatial constraints.
Risk-based Decision Risk Indicators (DRI) for estimation of population vulnerability to disasters and health hazards based on geolocated synthetic population demographics, evacuation planning and prioritization.
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