Referenzen / References

OGC – OWS-6

• OWS testbeds are part of OGC's Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGC's Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release. In OGC's Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiative's sponsoring organizations. OGC Interoperability Initiatives include test beds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services - all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.

  The OWS-6 sponsors are organizations seeking open standards for their interoperability requirements. After analyzing their requirements, the OGC Interoperability Team recommended to the sponsors that the content of the OWS-6 initiative be organized around the following threads:

  1. Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) - lead architect: Ingo Simonis
  2. Geo Processing Workflow (GPW)
  3. Aeronautical Information Management (AIM)
  4. Decision Support Services (DSS)
  5. Compliance Testing (CITE)

Integrated Risk Management in Africa – IRMA

• The IRMA project intends to build a reference platform suitable for the management of natural and environmental risks in Africa. The platform must allow the stakeholders in risk management to develop and use tailored risk management models and tools; therefore, the platform will be build upon the achievements of former EU projects such as WIN, ORCHESTRA, SSE, SANY and u-2010, as there are interoperable components, information infrastructure architectures and solutions, as well as clients and management tools and frameworks that allow to set up an efficient and sustainable multi-risks management. The platform will feature two major technical components:

  1. services for the exploration, acquisition, processing, decision-support, and dissemination of information as well as an efficient storage of all relevant information so that the stakeholders can analyse afterwards the sequence of events and adapt operational procedures consequently, and
  2. a multi-purpose solution for the communications based on IPv6 either to federate legacy communications or to provide native IPv6 solutions
  The project intends to deliver a pre-operational open infrastructure and access-platform, assessed by end-users in operational scenarios. Those scenarios serve as references for a future larger scale deployment of the platform and its components. Further on, the platform provides the facilities for prototyping risk management systems and for supporting a rapid development of applications services. Specific applications (Bushfire, Flood, Desertification and urban risks) will populate this platform during the project.

Sensors Anywhere – SANY

• Sensors Anywhere (SANY) is an FP6 IST-5 Integrated Project dealing with sensor networks research for environmental applications. It aims to contribute to joint European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) “Global Monitoring for Environment and Security” (GMES) initiative by improving the interoperability of in-situ sensors and sensor networks, and allowing quick and cost-efficient reuse of data and services from currently incompatible sources in future environmental risk management applications. This ambitious goal shall be achieved by (1) specifying a (generic) standard open architecture for fixed and moving sensors and sensor networks capable of seamless "plug and measure" and sharing (virtual networks); (2) developing and validating re-usable data fusion and decision support service building blocks and a reference implementation of the architecture; (3) closely working with end users and international organization in order to assure that the outcome of SANY contributes to future standard(s) applicable to GMES. All SANY architecture specifications shall be publicly available, validated by experts through OGC technical committee and compatible with EU and ESA infrastructure initiatives, such as Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE; standard interfaces with geospatial information). Last, but not the least important, SANY specifications shall be implemented in three innovative risk management applications covering the areas of air pollution, marine risks and geo hazards.

OWS5

• The OGC Web Services, Phase 5 (OWS-5) Testbed was an initiative of OGC's Interoperability Program to collaboratively extend and demonstrate OGC's baseline for geospatial interoperability. The main development of OWS-5 was conducted from July 2007 to April 2008. Major achievements in the context of sensor networks and the Sensor Web have been realized.

OWS4

• The Sensor Web subtask will continue to mature the existing set of SWE work items to enable the federation of sensors, platforms and management infrastructure into a single sensor enterprise. This enterprise will enable the discovery and tasking of sensors as well as the delivery of sensor measurements regardless of sensor type and controlling organization. The ultimate vision is of a sensor market place where users can identify, evaluate, select and request a sensor collection regardless of sensor type, platform or owner.

Sensor World

• Sensor World is in internal project run by the Sensor Web Working Groups of the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster and 52°North. Sensor World represents a model of the real world. It containts mobile robots operating in 2D and 3D with the aim of doing research on a variety of Sensor Web topics.
  The research project addresses (beyond others) the research on Sensor Web architectures and model designs, indoor object tracking in 3D, autonomous robots operating in 2D and 3D, movement and measurement strategies used by robots, communication network and sensor technologies. A range of seminars given at the Institute for Geoinformatics will accompany the project.

OGC OWS3 Testbed – Sensor Web Enablement

• The Sensor Web subtask will mature the existing set of SWE work items to enable the federation of sensors, platforms and management infrastructure into a single sensor enterprise. This enterprise will enable the discovery and tasking of sensors as well as the delivery of sensor measurements regardless of sensor type and controlling organization. The ultimate vision is of a sensor market place where users can identify, evaluate, select and request a sensor collection regardless of sensor type, platform or owner.
  The OGC Sensor Web Enablement framework has achieved a reasonable degree of maturity over the past two OWS interoperability initiatives (OWS-1 and OWS-2). At the same time, related efforts have been underway within the IEEE, Defense and Homeland Security communities. OWS-3 will integrate these complementary activities and develop a framework of standards and design patterns for building nationwide sensor networks.

52North – Open Source Web Services

• 52°North is an open membership organization that develops open source software under the GNU General Public License. The focus is on interoperable web services and data encoding models which constitute the technical building blocks of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). These infrastructures promote the exchange and application of spatial data. Within this context, we particularly strive for the development of novel web services that provide functionality for SDI management, the integration of real time geosensor data and spatio-temporal simulation models into SDIs, and mobile geocomputing. In a nutshell, we explore technological horizons beyond web mapping. This differentiates 52°North from many other free software development initiatives in the geographic information domain.

BEGIN - Barents Educational Geographic Information Network

• The overall goal of this project is that the universities in Murmansk, Archangelsk and Syktyvkar will educate students and professionals that fulfill the needs of employers within the geographic information sector (GI sector). Therefore, the main objective of this project is the generation of teaching material and specific curricula for each of the Russian universities.

Sensors: Data sources for the Netherlands Geo Information Infrastructure

• Goal of the project is to optimize the water resource management by using interoperable Web Service technologies to access sensor data and to task sensors and actuators.

Service-Architecture for Vodafone

• Various departments of the Vodafone company publish spatial data sets in the company’s intranet. The objective of this consulting project is to specify an internal Spatial Data Infrastructure, which on the one hand is based on standardized Geoservices and on the other hand takes specific features of the company’s IT-infrastructure into account (e.g. security demands). A prototypical implementation of selected services belonging to an exemplary use case will act as a proof of concept.

DALI – Distributed spAtiotemporaL Interoperability

• The main objective of this project, which is funded by the Ministry of Science and Research of North-Rhine Westphalia is to specify a Service Architecture to integrate distributed IEEE1516-based simulation models into OpenGIS-based Spatial Data Infrastructures. “Simulation” is meant in a broader context here and covers the integration of live sensors additionally. The strong time management capabilities of the High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation (IEEE1516) are used as a powerful supplement to the OGC Service specifications, which leads to a cross-domain interoperability approach.
  The project was running in cooperation with Dr. Raape (Fraunhofer Institute IFF, Magdeburg), and Prof. Dr. Schumann (Department of Hydrology, Water Management, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Bochum).