Keynote for HIC 2014 – 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, New York, USA August 17 – 21, 2014
Time, Change and Habits in Geospatial-Temporal Information Standards
Time and change are fundamental to our scientific understanding of the world. Standards for geospatial-temporal information exist but new needs outstrip current standards. Geospatial-temporal information includes capturing change in features and coverages and modeling the processes that inform change. Key standards for time, calendars, and temporal reference systems are in place. Time series modeling from the WaterML standard is a recent advance of high value to hydrology. The OGC Moving Features standard will establish an encoding format for changes in “rigid” features. Interoperability standards are needed for Coverages with values that change based on observations, analytical expressions, or simulations. Applying a coverage model to time-varying, fluid Earth systems was the topic of the ground breaking GALEON Interoperability Experiment. Standards developments for spatial-temporal process models is progressing with WPS, OpenMI and ESMF - supporting a Model Web concept. A robust framework for sharing geospatial-temporal information is now coming into place based on developments captured in standards by ISO, WMO, ITU, ICSU and OGC - including the newly established OGC Temporal domain working group. The new framework will enable capabilities in expressing and sharing scientific investigations including research on the emergence of forms over time. With these new capabilities we may come to understand Peirce’s observation that over time “all things have a tendency to take habits.”
Presentation Location and Context World, 2015. Palo Alto, CA November 3-4, 2015.
Abstract: Creating useful local context requires big data platforms and marketplaces. Contextual awareness is relevant to location based marketing, first responders, urban planners and many others. Location-aware mobile devices are revolutionizing how consumers and brands interact in the physical world. Situational awareness is a key element to efficiently handling any emergency response. In all cases, big data processing and high velocity streaming of location based data creates the richest contextual awareness. Data from many sources including IoT devices, sensor webs, surveillance and crowdsourcing are combined with semantically-rich urban and indoor data models. The resulting context information is delivered to and shared by mobile devices in connected and disconnected operations. Standards play a key role in establishing context platforms and marketplaces. Successful approaches will consolidate data from ubiquitous sensing technologies on a common space-time basis to enabled context-aware analysis of environmental and social dynamics.
UAVs are a disruptive technology bringing new geographic data and information to many application domains. UASs are similar to other geographic imagery systems so existing frameworks are applicable. But the diversity of UAVs as platforms along with the diversity of available sensors are presenting challenges in the processing and creation of geospatial products. Efficient processing and dissemination of the data is achieved using software and systems that implement open standards. The challenges identified point to the need for use of existing standards and extending standards. Results from the use of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement set of standards are presented. Next steps in the progress of UAVs and UASs may follow the path of open data, open source and open standards.
Geospatial Temporal Open Standards for Big Data from Space (BiDS2014)George Percivall
Presentation to ESA Big Data From Space (BiDS2014), November 2014.
Big data from space requires processing large amounts of data in a distributed environment. For efficient, quality and cost-effective deployment, these environments must be based on open standards. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) open standards for geospatial-temporal information have been tuned through implementations to meet the needs of big data.
Scientific Knowledge from Geospatial ObservationsGeorge Percivall
Presentation to IGARSS 2015 Conference, July 205, Milan Italy.
Part of invited session: Why Data Matters: Value of Stewardship and Knowledge Augmentation Services
TITLE: Open Standards Role in EarthCube (Invited)
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Luis E Bermudez1, David K Arctur2, 1, George Percivall1
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Open Geospatial Consortium, Gaithersburg, MD, United States.
2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
ABSTRACT BODY: EarthCube is an NSF initiative that will enable sharing of data in an open and transparent manner, improving access and use of data, allowing scientists to better understand the Earth. EarthCube is based on a network of enthusiasts willing to make the sharing of data a reality. But is just having open data enough? Open data will not accelerate the process a scientist team needs to go through to understand, reformat and use the data. However, agreements among colleagues or adoption of agreements can make a big difference. These agreements also need to be published, freely available, and unpolluted from intellectual property rights issues. The system design requirements to develop cyberinfrastructure for Geosciences need to take into account these open agreements, including open interfaces and open encodings. Once open agreements are in place, it is essential to have in place policy and procedures, and a governance body for maintaining those agreements. This presentation will explore these issues and suggest ways the standard development organizations, like the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and other coordinating organizations, such as the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), could be involved in this process.
http://www.opengeospatial.org
In AGU 2013 Session: IN43B. Emerging Concepts for Cyberinfrastructure in the Geosciences
Analysis Ready Data workshop - OGC presentation George Percivall
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has activities relevant to the workshop scope of "the current state-of-the-art in satellite data interoperability”. This presentation will focus on two main topics with the option to discuss other relevant topics that the participants may wish to discuss, e.g., WFS3. The two focus areas of development: 1) Geospatial Datacubes and 2) Earth Observation Exploitation Platforms. 1) A Geospatial Datacube provides access to and analytics on analysis ready data (ARD) organized with coordinate axes of space and time with cells in the cube containing data of geospatial features, e.g., imagery. OGC members implementing geospatial datacubes are documenting common practices to spur development and leading to the possibility to federated geospatial datacubes. 2) OGC is forming a Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Domain Working Group with the goal of defining a standards-based framework for cloud-based access to and analysis of EO data. An ad-hoc meeting was held in March 2018 to scope the working group with the results issued in a request for comment: http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2792
This talk opened the geospatial track of the Apache Big Data conference. The geospatial track aimed to increase the benefits of implementing open source consistent with open geospatial standards.
After an introduction of the geospatial track this talk focused on these topics:
- Applications of Big Geo Data
- Geospatial Open Standards
- Big Geo Use Cases
- Open Source and Open Standards.
OGC Update for State of Geospatial Tech at T-RexGeorge Percivall
An update on OGC activities in three time horizons: Now, Next and After Next. Finishing with how to keep updated on OGC activities.
Now
Recently approved OGC standards
Implementation of approved standards
Next
Standards Program
Innovation Program
After Next
Tech Forecast
How to keep in touch
Presentation Location and Context World, 2015. Palo Alto, CA November 3-4, 2015.
Abstract: Creating useful local context requires big data platforms and marketplaces. Contextual awareness is relevant to location based marketing, first responders, urban planners and many others. Location-aware mobile devices are revolutionizing how consumers and brands interact in the physical world. Situational awareness is a key element to efficiently handling any emergency response. In all cases, big data processing and high velocity streaming of location based data creates the richest contextual awareness. Data from many sources including IoT devices, sensor webs, surveillance and crowdsourcing are combined with semantically-rich urban and indoor data models. The resulting context information is delivered to and shared by mobile devices in connected and disconnected operations. Standards play a key role in establishing context platforms and marketplaces. Successful approaches will consolidate data from ubiquitous sensing technologies on a common space-time basis to enabled context-aware analysis of environmental and social dynamics.
UAVs are a disruptive technology bringing new geographic data and information to many application domains. UASs are similar to other geographic imagery systems so existing frameworks are applicable. But the diversity of UAVs as platforms along with the diversity of available sensors are presenting challenges in the processing and creation of geospatial products. Efficient processing and dissemination of the data is achieved using software and systems that implement open standards. The challenges identified point to the need for use of existing standards and extending standards. Results from the use of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement set of standards are presented. Next steps in the progress of UAVs and UASs may follow the path of open data, open source and open standards.
Geospatial Temporal Open Standards for Big Data from Space (BiDS2014)George Percivall
Presentation to ESA Big Data From Space (BiDS2014), November 2014.
Big data from space requires processing large amounts of data in a distributed environment. For efficient, quality and cost-effective deployment, these environments must be based on open standards. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) open standards for geospatial-temporal information have been tuned through implementations to meet the needs of big data.
Scientific Knowledge from Geospatial ObservationsGeorge Percivall
Presentation to IGARSS 2015 Conference, July 205, Milan Italy.
Part of invited session: Why Data Matters: Value of Stewardship and Knowledge Augmentation Services
TITLE: Open Standards Role in EarthCube (Invited)
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Luis E Bermudez1, David K Arctur2, 1, George Percivall1
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Open Geospatial Consortium, Gaithersburg, MD, United States.
2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
ABSTRACT BODY: EarthCube is an NSF initiative that will enable sharing of data in an open and transparent manner, improving access and use of data, allowing scientists to better understand the Earth. EarthCube is based on a network of enthusiasts willing to make the sharing of data a reality. But is just having open data enough? Open data will not accelerate the process a scientist team needs to go through to understand, reformat and use the data. However, agreements among colleagues or adoption of agreements can make a big difference. These agreements also need to be published, freely available, and unpolluted from intellectual property rights issues. The system design requirements to develop cyberinfrastructure for Geosciences need to take into account these open agreements, including open interfaces and open encodings. Once open agreements are in place, it is essential to have in place policy and procedures, and a governance body for maintaining those agreements. This presentation will explore these issues and suggest ways the standard development organizations, like the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and other coordinating organizations, such as the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), could be involved in this process.
http://www.opengeospatial.org
In AGU 2013 Session: IN43B. Emerging Concepts for Cyberinfrastructure in the Geosciences
Analysis Ready Data workshop - OGC presentation George Percivall
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has activities relevant to the workshop scope of "the current state-of-the-art in satellite data interoperability”. This presentation will focus on two main topics with the option to discuss other relevant topics that the participants may wish to discuss, e.g., WFS3. The two focus areas of development: 1) Geospatial Datacubes and 2) Earth Observation Exploitation Platforms. 1) A Geospatial Datacube provides access to and analytics on analysis ready data (ARD) organized with coordinate axes of space and time with cells in the cube containing data of geospatial features, e.g., imagery. OGC members implementing geospatial datacubes are documenting common practices to spur development and leading to the possibility to federated geospatial datacubes. 2) OGC is forming a Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Domain Working Group with the goal of defining a standards-based framework for cloud-based access to and analysis of EO data. An ad-hoc meeting was held in March 2018 to scope the working group with the results issued in a request for comment: http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2792
This talk opened the geospatial track of the Apache Big Data conference. The geospatial track aimed to increase the benefits of implementing open source consistent with open geospatial standards.
After an introduction of the geospatial track this talk focused on these topics:
- Applications of Big Geo Data
- Geospatial Open Standards
- Big Geo Use Cases
- Open Source and Open Standards.
OGC Update for State of Geospatial Tech at T-RexGeorge Percivall
An update on OGC activities in three time horizons: Now, Next and After Next. Finishing with how to keep updated on OGC activities.
Now
Recently approved OGC standards
Implementation of approved standards
Next
Standards Program
Innovation Program
After Next
Tech Forecast
How to keep in touch
"The Golden Age of Geospatial Data Science and Engineering" presented as the inital lecture in the Geospatial Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Series organized and presented by Professor Shaowen Wang, Head of the Geography and Geographic Information Science Department.
"Data Science is in a golden age. The mathematical foundations of Data Science, known for many years, are now seeing broad applicability due to engineering advances in cloud and big data computing and due to the explosive availability of data about nearly every aspect of human activity coming from mobile devices, remote sensing and the Internet of Things. Nearly all of this data has components of location and time leading to stunning advances in geospatial data science. Development of intelligent systems using knowledge models leading to insights and understanding have the potential to significantly transform geospatial data sciences. To achieve the fullest extent of their potential, these innovations require establishment of open consensus standards. This talk will review recent developments in innovations, standards, and applications of geospatial data science and engineering."
Progress towards Open Standards-Based Agro-GeoinformaticsGeorge Percivall
Keynote presentation to Agro-Geoinformatics Conference
20 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://agro-geoinformatics.org/
** What is agro-geoinformatics and why need for exchange of Agriculture Geo-Information?
Efficient exchange of data on utilization of farmland, soil and crop characteristics, water availability, environmental impacts, …
Many user roles: growers, advisors, landowners, foodstuff processors, regulators and all levels of government
Major challenges to agricultural: climate change, increasing population, shortage of water and arable land
Increasing need for information standards to support transparency in agricultural goods and services markets
** Projects showing the progress of standards-based agro-geoinformatics technology
SoilML for information exchange
Soil information platforms
Precision Agriculture and In-situ networks
Remote sensing from satellites and drones
Big Data processing for decision support
Climate - Food - Water nexus
** OGC support of Agro-Geoinformatics
- Agriculture Domain Working Group
Identify geospatial interoperability challenges in agriculture domain
Forum to identify standards-based solutions, new standards
- Discrete Global Grid Systems standards development
Geometric partitioning of Earth surface into cells with identifiers
Enable fusion of disparate data for spatial analysis and modeling
- Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (SoilIE)
Testing standards for exchange of soils data
Results to converge and mature soil information standards.
Get involved as participant or an observer, contact:
David Medyckyj-Scott Medyckyj-Scottd@landcareresearch.co.nz
…and others
Climate Data Sharing for Urban Resilience - OGC Testbed 11George Percivall
OGC Testbed 11:
Delivering on our commitment to the Climate Data Initiative
In December 2014 the US 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 includes OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11 results are now available delivering on that commitment.
The results of this major interoperability testbed contribute to development and refinement of international standards that are critical for the communication and integration of geospatial information. http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/testbed11
• Nine sponsors provided requirements and funding for Testbed 11.
• Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 by contributing prototypes, engineering
reports and participating in a scenario driven demonstration of the technical advances Technical results of Testbed 11 relevant to the Climate Data Initiative include:
• Analysis and prediction based on open climate data accessed using open standards
• Making predictive models more accessible with OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Verifying model predictions using mobile operations, in-situ gauges and social media.
Climate adaptation, resilience and security planning based on technology from OGC Testbed 11:
• Estimating geographic extend of coastal inundation in dynamic weather conditions
• Assessing social unrest with displaced population due to climate change
• Integrating spatial and non-spatial models of human geography and resilience
• Predictive models and verifications to support planning and response phases
Keynote presentation to New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2015. This presentation covered emerging topics for geospatial research in four areas:
- Spatial Representation: urban models, CityGML, indoor and DGGS
- New Data Sources: sensors everywhere, IoT, UAVs citizen observations, social media
- Computer Engineering: Big data, moving features, spatial analytics, mobile, 3D portrayal, augmented reality
- Application Areas: Soils Interoperability Experiment, Urban Climate Resilience in OGC Testbed 11.
CyberGIS Architectures for Collaborative Problem Solving - OGC perspectiveGeorge Percivall
1. What is CyberGIS:
- collaboration; open data, open source, open standards
2. The plumbing for CyberGIS collaboration is available:
- Processing, Workflow, Model interoperability as web services are “solved” several times;
- the concepts for collaboration need to be made explicit
3. Need for “decision” and “hypothesis” objects including modeling and linked data
- Ontology for decision types. Templates for Decisions and Hypothesis
- Recommender systems - a guess at the riddle
- If I see these conditions then consider this decision template
- If I am researching these conditions then consider this hypothesis
Application packaging and systematic processing in earth observation exploita...terradue
An overview of Terradue's solutions supporting Earth Observations (EO) Exploitation Platforms across multiple domains.
Presentation done as part of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee ad-hoc meeting for the setup of a new domain working group on EO Exploitation Platforms.
Evolution of System Architectures: Where Do We Need to Fail Next?Luis Bermudez
Innovation requires testing and failing. Thomas Edison was right when he said "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work". For innovation and improvement of standards to happen, service Architectures have to be tested and tested. Within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), testing of service architectures has occurred for the last 15 years. This talk will present an evolution of these service architectures and a possible future path.
SDSC Technology Forum: Increasing the Impact of High Resolution Topography Da...OpenTopography Facility
High-resolution topography is a powerful tool for studying the Earth's surface, vegetation, and urban landscapes, with broad scientific, engineering, and educational-based applications. Over the past decade, there has been dramatic growth in the acquisition of these data for scientific, environmental, engineering and planning purposes. In the US, the U.S. Geological Society is undertaking the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) to map the entire lower 48 with lidar by 2023.
The richness of these topography datasets make them extremely valuable beyond the application that drove their acquisition and thus are of interest to a large and varied user community. A cyberinfrastructure platform that enables users to efficiently discover, access and process these massive volumes of data increases the impact of investments in collection of the data and catalyzes scientific discovery as well as informs critical decisions that are made across our Nation every day that depend on elevation data, ranging from immediate safety of life, property, and environment to long term planning for infrastructure projects.
Join us to hear about the motivations, technology, and data assets behind the National Science Foundation funded OpenTopography platform, which aims to democratize access to high resolution topographic data. OpenTopography’s innovation is in co-locating massive volumes of topographic data with processing tools that enable users with varied expertise and application domains to quickly and easily access and process data, to enable innovation and decision making.
Planet has the ambitious goal of imaging everywhere on earth once per day with a fleet of small satellites. Now with over 100 operational satellites, Planet is collecting over a hundred million square kilometers of remote sensing data every day and for the first time we are able to take actions based on the daily changes that we observe. In addition to this unique data set, Planet has taken an 'API-first' approach to distributing data, allowing our users to build their own applications or integrations directly on our platform services. Safe Software's own Planet transformer is a great example of this kind of integration, giving FME users easy access to Planet's growing archive of satellite imagery.
Open Science and GEOSS: the Cloud Sandbox enablersterradue
As part of the European project GEOWOW, Terradue was invited to present views at the GEO-X event on future endeavors to serve data democracy & science literacy in GEOSS (http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml)
"The Golden Age of Geospatial Data Science and Engineering" presented as the inital lecture in the Geospatial Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Series organized and presented by Professor Shaowen Wang, Head of the Geography and Geographic Information Science Department.
"Data Science is in a golden age. The mathematical foundations of Data Science, known for many years, are now seeing broad applicability due to engineering advances in cloud and big data computing and due to the explosive availability of data about nearly every aspect of human activity coming from mobile devices, remote sensing and the Internet of Things. Nearly all of this data has components of location and time leading to stunning advances in geospatial data science. Development of intelligent systems using knowledge models leading to insights and understanding have the potential to significantly transform geospatial data sciences. To achieve the fullest extent of their potential, these innovations require establishment of open consensus standards. This talk will review recent developments in innovations, standards, and applications of geospatial data science and engineering."
Progress towards Open Standards-Based Agro-GeoinformaticsGeorge Percivall
Keynote presentation to Agro-Geoinformatics Conference
20 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://agro-geoinformatics.org/
** What is agro-geoinformatics and why need for exchange of Agriculture Geo-Information?
Efficient exchange of data on utilization of farmland, soil and crop characteristics, water availability, environmental impacts, …
Many user roles: growers, advisors, landowners, foodstuff processors, regulators and all levels of government
Major challenges to agricultural: climate change, increasing population, shortage of water and arable land
Increasing need for information standards to support transparency in agricultural goods and services markets
** Projects showing the progress of standards-based agro-geoinformatics technology
SoilML for information exchange
Soil information platforms
Precision Agriculture and In-situ networks
Remote sensing from satellites and drones
Big Data processing for decision support
Climate - Food - Water nexus
** OGC support of Agro-Geoinformatics
- Agriculture Domain Working Group
Identify geospatial interoperability challenges in agriculture domain
Forum to identify standards-based solutions, new standards
- Discrete Global Grid Systems standards development
Geometric partitioning of Earth surface into cells with identifiers
Enable fusion of disparate data for spatial analysis and modeling
- Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (SoilIE)
Testing standards for exchange of soils data
Results to converge and mature soil information standards.
Get involved as participant or an observer, contact:
David Medyckyj-Scott Medyckyj-Scottd@landcareresearch.co.nz
…and others
Climate Data Sharing for Urban Resilience - OGC Testbed 11George Percivall
OGC Testbed 11:
Delivering on our commitment to the Climate Data Initiative
In December 2014 the US 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 includes OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11 results are now available delivering on that commitment.
The results of this major interoperability testbed contribute to development and refinement of international standards that are critical for the communication and integration of geospatial information. http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/testbed11
• Nine sponsors provided requirements and funding for Testbed 11.
• Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 by contributing prototypes, engineering
reports and participating in a scenario driven demonstration of the technical advances Technical results of Testbed 11 relevant to the Climate Data Initiative include:
• Analysis and prediction based on open climate data accessed using open standards
• Making predictive models more accessible with OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Verifying model predictions using mobile operations, in-situ gauges and social media.
Climate adaptation, resilience and security planning based on technology from OGC Testbed 11:
• Estimating geographic extend of coastal inundation in dynamic weather conditions
• Assessing social unrest with displaced population due to climate change
• Integrating spatial and non-spatial models of human geography and resilience
• Predictive models and verifications to support planning and response phases
Keynote presentation to New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2015. This presentation covered emerging topics for geospatial research in four areas:
- Spatial Representation: urban models, CityGML, indoor and DGGS
- New Data Sources: sensors everywhere, IoT, UAVs citizen observations, social media
- Computer Engineering: Big data, moving features, spatial analytics, mobile, 3D portrayal, augmented reality
- Application Areas: Soils Interoperability Experiment, Urban Climate Resilience in OGC Testbed 11.
CyberGIS Architectures for Collaborative Problem Solving - OGC perspectiveGeorge Percivall
1. What is CyberGIS:
- collaboration; open data, open source, open standards
2. The plumbing for CyberGIS collaboration is available:
- Processing, Workflow, Model interoperability as web services are “solved” several times;
- the concepts for collaboration need to be made explicit
3. Need for “decision” and “hypothesis” objects including modeling and linked data
- Ontology for decision types. Templates for Decisions and Hypothesis
- Recommender systems - a guess at the riddle
- If I see these conditions then consider this decision template
- If I am researching these conditions then consider this hypothesis
Application packaging and systematic processing in earth observation exploita...terradue
An overview of Terradue's solutions supporting Earth Observations (EO) Exploitation Platforms across multiple domains.
Presentation done as part of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee ad-hoc meeting for the setup of a new domain working group on EO Exploitation Platforms.
Evolution of System Architectures: Where Do We Need to Fail Next?Luis Bermudez
Innovation requires testing and failing. Thomas Edison was right when he said "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work". For innovation and improvement of standards to happen, service Architectures have to be tested and tested. Within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), testing of service architectures has occurred for the last 15 years. This talk will present an evolution of these service architectures and a possible future path.
SDSC Technology Forum: Increasing the Impact of High Resolution Topography Da...OpenTopography Facility
High-resolution topography is a powerful tool for studying the Earth's surface, vegetation, and urban landscapes, with broad scientific, engineering, and educational-based applications. Over the past decade, there has been dramatic growth in the acquisition of these data for scientific, environmental, engineering and planning purposes. In the US, the U.S. Geological Society is undertaking the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) to map the entire lower 48 with lidar by 2023.
The richness of these topography datasets make them extremely valuable beyond the application that drove their acquisition and thus are of interest to a large and varied user community. A cyberinfrastructure platform that enables users to efficiently discover, access and process these massive volumes of data increases the impact of investments in collection of the data and catalyzes scientific discovery as well as informs critical decisions that are made across our Nation every day that depend on elevation data, ranging from immediate safety of life, property, and environment to long term planning for infrastructure projects.
Join us to hear about the motivations, technology, and data assets behind the National Science Foundation funded OpenTopography platform, which aims to democratize access to high resolution topographic data. OpenTopography’s innovation is in co-locating massive volumes of topographic data with processing tools that enable users with varied expertise and application domains to quickly and easily access and process data, to enable innovation and decision making.
Planet has the ambitious goal of imaging everywhere on earth once per day with a fleet of small satellites. Now with over 100 operational satellites, Planet is collecting over a hundred million square kilometers of remote sensing data every day and for the first time we are able to take actions based on the daily changes that we observe. In addition to this unique data set, Planet has taken an 'API-first' approach to distributing data, allowing our users to build their own applications or integrations directly on our platform services. Safe Software's own Planet transformer is a great example of this kind of integration, giving FME users easy access to Planet's growing archive of satellite imagery.
Open Science and GEOSS: the Cloud Sandbox enablersterradue
As part of the European project GEOWOW, Terradue was invited to present views at the GEO-X event on future endeavors to serve data democracy & science literacy in GEOSS (http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.shtml)
This presentation will dive into a development team’s use case for choosing MongoDB as their spatially enabled NoSQL solution. The talk will also cover how the integration of GeoServer can expand the accessibility of your data. GeoServer is the open source implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and a core component of the Geospatial Web.
Giving MongoDB a Way to Play with the GIS CommunityMongoDB
The Geographic Information System (GIS), industry is booming, especially with the continued reliance on online maps and the rise of location-aware mobile devices. GIS tech can be one of the key players in the mobile internet, big data, and the internet of things, and is an essential tool for the next generation of the global IT industry.
Yet, the GIS community is not prepared. With all the data available, GIS experts lack an off-the-shelf solutions to manage the growing volume of spatial data. Relational spatial databases (RSDB) were the leader in this field for decades, but RSDBs have failed to innovate to handle massive volumes of data coming in at high velocity.
Fortunately, MongoDB a useful tool for this challenge, but needs some tooling to create a connector to the GIS tech ecosystem. In order to bridge the gap, we built a pipeline to comply with the architecture of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), so that MongoDB can work with most of popular GIS tools such as OpenLayers, Mapserver, GeoServer, QGIS, ArcGIS and others with ease. In this talk, I'll go through this pipeline tool and showcase some examples of how you can use this in your next application.
WMS Benchmarking presentation and results, from the FOSS4G 2010 event in Barcelona. 8 different development teams participated in this exercise, to display common data through the WMS standard the fastest. http://2010.foss4g.org/wms_benchmarking.php
Standards-based workflows for flood analysis with authoritative and non-autho...Julian Rosser
Standards-based workflows for flood analysis with authoritative and non-authoritative data. 96th OGC Technical Committee meeting.
Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee flooding workflow. September 2015
USING E-INFRASTRUCTURES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION - Module 2Gianpaolo Coro
An e-Infrastructure is a distributed network of service nodes, residing on multiple sites and managed by one or more organizations. e-Infrastructures allow scientists residing at distant places to collaborate. They offer a multiplicity of facilities as-a-service, supporting data sharing and usage at different levels of abstraction, e.g. data transfer, data harmonization, data processing workflows etc. e-Infrastructures are gaining an important place in the field of biodiversity conservation. Their computational capabilities help scientists to reuse models, obtain results in shorter time and share these results with other colleagues. They are also used to access several and heterogeneous biodiversity catalogues.
In this course, the D4Science e-Infrastructure will be used to conduct experiments in the field of biodiversity conservation. D4Science hosts models and contributions by several international organizations involved in the biodiversity conservation field. The course will give students an overview of the models, the practices and the methods that large international organizations like FAO and UNESCO apply by means of D4Science. At the same time, the course will introduce students to the basic concepts under e-Infrastructures, Virtual Research Environments, data sharing and experiments reproducibility.
Responding to an oil spill requires access and understanding of many types of information. Effective, coordinated operations for the response are based on a shared, common picture of the situation. Interoperability provides shared situational awareness of the crisis and the response activities.
The OGP and IPIECA are conducting a Joint Industry Project to produce a recommended practice for an Oil Spill Response Common Operating Picture (COP) for management of the response. The presentation will provide an overview, plans and status of the OGP/IPEICA project being conducted with support from RDA and OGC.
After emerging from the resources wilderness thanks to its world-class geology and industry-friendly government policies, South Australia is now a leader in Australian mining and hydrocarbon developments over the last decade.
In little more than a decade the State has gone from four operating mines to more than 20 and is rated Australia’s second most popular exploration destination.
With a comprehensive review of the Mining Act under way, the State’s attractiveness as a place for resources and energy investment is expected to be strengthened.
South Australia is now a leader in the exploration for next generation energy sources with companies such as Santos and BP leading the charge, while initiatives such as the Government’s Copper Strategy – designed to treble annual copper production to 1 mtpa – is set to establish the State as one of the world’s premier producers of the red metal.
In the energy space, uranium and nuclear energy is another area of keen interest, with the South Australian Government initiating a Royal Commission into Participation in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle in 2016.
The State has become synonymous with innovation, cutting-edge development and a remarkable rate of discovery. From uranium prospects, to geothermal energy and the buoyant hydrocarbons sector, South Australia is now a leader in the exploration for next generation energy sources.
With full support from the Department of State Development, the South Australian Resources and Energy Investment Conference will continue to showcase this burgeoning sector in 2017. From copper plays in the Gawler Craton, to iron ore and graphite developments on the Eyre Peninsula and the emergence of the State as a new hydrocarbon frontier, South Australia’s resources potential is at last being fully recognised.
The conference will feature the success stories and emerging players in the State from both minerals and oil and gas and will also tackle thorny industry issues such as infrastructure, corporate social responsibility and the future of the Woomera Prohibited Area.
A Review of Change Detection Techniques of LandCover Using Remote Sensing Dataiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Defining Digital Earth as a virtual representation of all digital information with a geospatial component, this geography attempts to delineate the scope and elements of Digital Earth. The framework for this geography is a set of layers applicable to describing an information system. From bottom to top the layers are physical, data, information, knowledge, decisions and actions. Conclusions of this geography are that some technologies are sufficient for a Digital Earth to come into existence, but some technologies, in particular in the upper layers, need to be developed. Three conclusions are listed in this abstract.
In the physical and data layers, the explosive growth of Internet provides access to much Digital Earth data. However, the bandwidth necessary for high-end Digital Earth clients will not be widely deployed for some time. In the near term it will be necessary to have Digital Earth access points in public places like museums where high bandwidth is available.
Digital Earth information volume is estimated by assuming a fraction of all digital information that has a geospatial component. Estimates place the total volume of recorded information at several thousand petabytes, i.e., several exabytes. It has been regularly postulated in the geographic community that half or more of all information has a geospatial component. Even though we will soon have the capacity to digitally record this volume of information, most of of it will never be looked at by a human. Tools are needed for auto-summarization, distilling the information into knowledge with lower volume and higher semantic content.
To allow decisions and actions based on the knowledge of Digital Earth requires analysis of the knowledge using tools particular to the geospatial domain. As Digital Earth will exist in a distributed service environment based on standards for interoperability, the standards must address the particulars of geospatial semantics. Syntax standards for transporting semantic information (e.g., XML) have been defined and extended with geospatial structures. Standards for achieving shared understandings ("domain semantics") are yet to be developed. Beyond domain semantics, the validity of chaining services on geospatial features ("process semantics") is less developed.
Manual on Remote Sensing v4 - Chapter 6 archive and accessGeorge Percivall
Presentation on ASPRS Manual on Remote Sensing, v4 (MRSv4)
John Faundeen, USGS/EROS and I are editors of the Archiving and Access chapter.
My focus is on visualization, access, processing and workflow.
MRSv4 is planned for release at the ISPRS congress next year.
MRSv4 Chap 6 at ASPRS Annual Meeting 2015
Urban IoT for Smart Cities: New Pathways to Business and Location Intelligenc...George Percivall
Presentation to Location Intelligence 2014 on 20 May 2014, during Opening Plenary/LI Vision Panel:" Location Analytics & Visual Data Discovery … New Pathways to Business Intelligence" My presentation identifies how rich location information is vital to the success of smart cities. Topics addressed included benefits for location infrastructure in Smart Cities. Spatial architecture from geospatial, infrastructure, buildings - indoor, outdoor and urban settings. OGC Smart Cities Testbed as convergence of many technologies to meet the needs of urban citizens and services.
http://www.locationintelligence.net/dc/agenda/
Presentation to for the ISPRS Congress 2012, Melbourne
Over the last decade, standards have played a key role in the expansion of the market for Earth Observation (EO) products and services. Standards become increasingly important as geospatial technologies and markets continue to evolve in an increasingly complex technology ecosystem. OGC and ISPRS work jointly to further the development of this vital information industry.
We continue to see global growth in the supply of geometrically controlled image-based geodata. On the data supplier side, most end-use EO information products use data from multiple EO sources (aerial and satellite) as well as from ground-based sources. On the customer side, customers’ business models involving EO data require easy connections between multiple data suppliers and multiple technology platforms. Typically, new markets create stovepiped, proprietary solutions that persist until market forces create demand for standards that in turn enhance market opportunity. The OGC’s standards meet this demand in the geospatial markets.
OGC leads worldwide in the creation and establishment of standards that allow geospatial content and services to be seamlessly integrated into business and civic processes, the spatial web and enterprise computing. OGC accelerates market assimilation of interoperability research through collaborative consortium processes.
OGC has both domain focused and technology focused activities. For example, the Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group ensures that OGC standards and profiles allow the meteorological community to develop effective interoperability for web services and content across the wider geospatial domain. These needs are met for example by the technology of standards such as netCDF which was brought into the OGC to encourage broader international use and greater interoperability among clients and servers interchanging data in binary form.
Most OGC standards specify open interfaces or encodings that apply to imagery. Some of these are:
o Web Coverage Service (WCS)
o Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)
o Web Map Service (WMS)
o Geography Markup Language (GML)
o GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding
o OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
o Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
o Sensor Planning Service (SPS)
o Sensor Model Language Encoding Standard (SensorML).
o Catalogue Service for the WEB (CSW)
Innovation in Geospatial Technology and StandardsGeorge Percivall
All predictions are wrong; some are useful. This presentation offers a slate of geospatial trends developed in discussion with the OGC Board of Directors and expanded in an OGC blog series. These geospatial technology issues were developed by reviewing over 200 articles from geospatial publications as well as from information technology journals (IEEE, ACM, etc.).
These "Ripe Issues" of geospatial technology identify areas where further development of open standards can lead to great benefit:
* The Power of Location
* Internet of Things
* Mobile Development
* Indoor Frontier
* Cartographers of the future
* Big Processing of GeoData
* Smart Cities
The OGC is an international consortium where members participate in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC has a history of developing anticipatory standards. OGC is a leader in achieving a consensus balanced with innovation where OGC members actively designing the standard while implementing running software. In the role of OGC Chief Engineer, George Percivall identifies technology and market trends relevant to open standards development.
Mobile World Congress 2014 was again a huge display of the power of location information. OGC standards for mobile applications are key to exploiting the value of geospatial information. OGC has several open standards that enable accurate and robust sharing of geospatial information in mobile environment.
Variations of this presentation were made at the OGC Workshop at MWC, at the OMA Demo Day and at the Small Cell Zone exhibit space.
Note the slide calling for a Smart Cities - Urban IoT Testbed concept that builds on OGC Interoperability Program capabilities.
The Open Landscape of Geospatial Information: Open data, open source, open standards
Presented at ASPRS GeoTech 2013 conference: http://www.asprspotomac.org/geotech2013/
Abstract:
The many dimensions of "open" provides users with higher quality geospatial information. Open Standards ensures interoperability to information whether its served by proprietary or open source software. Open Source software benefits the development of open standards and leads to a business ecosystem that includes more providers, more partnerships and more customers.[1] In the end the user does not care if the code is open or proprietary. Users care about access to data and the quality of the data. Open Data has advanced with the recent policies from GEOSS Data-CORE [2] and the US Open Government Initiative [3]. Open Earth Observation data from government sources benefits industry and users. Open standards, Open source and Open data can result in higher quality information. The fusion of data from multiple sources results in higher quality. Fusion is possible based on multiple data sources that can be interrelated [4]. Improving Data Quality through knowing the uncertainty and the provenance of derived information is dependent upon an open landscape of geospatial information.
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_and_Open_Standards
[2] http://www.earthobservations.org/geoss_dsp.shtml
[3] http://www.whitehouse.gov/open
[4] http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/fusion2
Location Based Services update for Small Cell ForumGeorge Percivall
Presentation about OGC activities on location based services with an emphasis on indoor location and IndoorGML.
Agenda of talk:
- The power of location
- Mission of OGC
- OGC standards
- OpenLS - OGC Open Location Services
- New developments: IndoorGML and others
All predictions are wrong; some are useful. This presentation offers a slate of "ripe issues" that were developed in discussion with the OGC Board of Directors and expanded in a blog series. The issues were developed by reviewing over 200 articles from geospatial industry publications as well as from information technology journals (IEEE, ACM, etc.).
These Ripe Issues of geospatial technology identify areas where further development of open standards can lead to great benefit. The OGC is an international consortium where members participate in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.
The ripe issues of geospatial technology identified in March 2013 are:
• The Power of Location
• Internet of Things
• Mobile Development
• Indoor Frontier
• Cartographers of the future
• Big Processing of Geospatial Data
• Smart Cities Depend on Smart Location
• Policy implementation
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
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We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
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Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
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At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
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Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
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ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
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Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
10. “A coverage is a feature that associates positions within a bounded
That is to say -- a collection of features that share a common regular
geometry
OGC®
Coverages
space to feature attribute values”
Copyright (c) 2009 Opengeospatial Consortium
• Examples
– Raster image
– Polygon overlay
– Digital elevation matrix
Latitude -->
Longitude -->
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WaterML2 Part 1: Time series data
22. OGC/WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group
4-Year International Effort – WaterML
Hydrology Domain Working Group formed
OGC at WMO Commission for Hydrology
November 2009
A time series for one variable at one location
Technical Meetings Each 3 Months
Four Interoperability Experiments
(Surface water, groundwater, forecasting)
Annual week-long workshops
Involvement by many countries
Acknowledgements: OGC, WMO, GRDC, NWS,
CUAHSI, BoM/CSIRO, USGS, GSC, Kisters, …….
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
23. International Standardization of WaterML
• Hydrology Domain Working Group
– standards for water data: WaterML 2.0 suite
– organizing Interoperability Experiments (IEs)
focused on different sub-domains of water
• Chairs:
– Ilya Zaslavsky (USA)
– Tony Boston (Australia)
– Silvano Pecora (Italy)
OGC®
Iterative Development
http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/HydrologyDWG/WebHome
24. HydroDWG: Suite of Water Information Standards
OGC®
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River Channel
(RiverML, under
development)
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Water Quantity
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(OGC10-126r4)
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Gauging
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(OGC13-021rX)
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Water Quality
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(OGC14-003rX)
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26. What is the OpenMI?
• An interface standard (API) for:
• run time (in memory) data exchange between
models, databases & other components
• Whose purpose is to:
• improve ability to model complex scenarios
Application
User interface
Input data
Hydraulics
Output data
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User interface
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29. Current status of OpenMI
• OpenMI 2.0 available and in use since 2010
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmi/files/Version_2.0.0.0/
• OpenMI 2.0 submitted to OGC for acceptance
– Approval Date: 2013-12-06
– Publication Date: 2014-05-26
• http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/openmi
– Document 11-014r3
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32. Model Interoperability - An Evolution
(Source: S. Nativi, CNR, GEOSS Future Products Workshop)
OpenMI
ESMF
33. Model Web and Sensor Web in GEOSS
Societal
Benefits
Decision Support
Assessments
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• Remotely-sensed
• In situ
Policy
Decisions
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• Oceans
• Ice
• Land
• Atmosphere
• Solid Earth
• Biosphere
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and standards