Open Geospatial Consortium

Group on Earth Observations – GEO Week 2023

Statement of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

OGC is committed to aligning OGC’s efforts with GEO strategic priorities – using our collective problem-solving community of geospatial leaders and users to leverage Earth Observations, geospatial standards, and technological innovations to formulate decision-ready information critical for disaster prevention and response as well as climate change understanding and actions.

Via our Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program, we are bringing together our community of more than 560 industry, government, and academic members to demonstrate the interdisciplinary integration of EO data with social, economic, and other data to support decision-making.

The OGC Disaster Pilots 2023, building on previous successful Disaster Pilots, is testing end-to-end information flow related to all phases of disaster management, focusing on flooding and landslide disasters in collaboration with AmeriGEO, and with the sponsorship and support of USGS, Natural Resources Canada, NASA, and AWS. The objective is to create standards-based best practices for dealing with the 2 disasters (flooding and landslide), from data collection and storage, to processing and analytics, to tools and applications, to information for citizens and decision-makers.

The OGC Climate Pilot2023 has been built on the momentum of the Disaster Pilots and aims to accelerate our collective readiness for accessing, fusing, and analyzing data from the climate change modeling community with earth observations and social science data and enable impacts studies. Climate change is becoming the leading use case for interoperability and collaboration within our community – motivating OGC's increasing commitment to strong partnership with GEO and stakeholders.

Moreover, via OGC participation to European Projects such as e-shape, Iliad, AD4GD, and EEA InCASE initiative, OGC and its community support GEO in implementing its strategy and goals of moving from Data sharing to Open Knowledge, in fostering in-situ data sharing, in consolidating the Land Degradation Flagship foundations, in developing capacity and awareness, aligning several European efforts to make the European contribution to GEO more efficient in addressing its priorities.

OGC further supports GEO by developing key principles and technologies that make interoperability happen. With the resulting building blocks, OGC is contributing the next generation interoperability technology to the global Earth observation community.

OGC remains committed to support global fertilization between the Regions and global outreach fostering GEO shining.