OGC Public Engineering Reports

Documents that present technology issues being considered in the Working Groups of the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee. Their purpose is to create discussion in the geospatial information industry on a specific topic. These papers do not represent the official position of the Open Geospatial Consortium nor of the OGC Technical Committee. Schemas for some of these documents can be at the Discussion Paper Schema Repository.

Document Title (click to download)	Version	Document #	Editor	Date
OGC OWS-6-AIM Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-050r1	Hans Schoebach	2009-07-27
This report establishes a baseline for the technical architecture, its alternatives and issues for implementing the use cases as specified in the OWS-6 AIM thread RFQ including the temporal WFS supporting the temporal FE 2.0 operators, the Event Service Notification architecture and the client EFBs.
OWS-6 3D Flythrough (W3DS) Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-075r1	Arne Schilling	2009-08-05
This document describes the 3D portrayal server components which were used in the OGC OWS-6 Decision Support Systems (DSS) thread. The objective pf this activity was to efficiently stream and display GML 3 content in internet or wireless networks with limited bandwidth, especially focusing on the CityGML application profile. The server for delivering landscape and city models is implemented as Web 3D Service (W3DS) that is designed as portrayal service.
OWS-6 CITE TEAM Engine Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-072	James Ressler	2009-08-05
This document summarizes the work done on the TEAM compliance test engine and DGIWG Profile compliance test by Northrop Grumman for the CITE thread of OWS-6 in 2008-2009.
OWS-6 Common CBRN Sensor Interface (CCSI)-Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-007	Scott Fairgrieve	2009-10-09
This document outlines the concepts, best practices, and lessons learned gathered from integrating Common Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Sensor Interface (CCSI) standard-compliant sensors into an OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)-based architecture. The document also specifies a web service interface for interacting with CCSI sensors and defines the basis for a profile that can be used to represent CCSI sensor definitions, data, and commands in SWE formats.
OWS-6 DSS Engineering Report - SOAP/XML and REST in WMTS	0.3.0	09-006	Keith Pomakis	2009-08-05
This OGC® document reports the results achieved in the Decision Support Services (DSS) subtask of the OWS-6 testbed initiative as it relates to the development of SOAP/XML and REST interfaces for the Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS).
OWS-6 Geoprocessing Workflow Architecture Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-053r5	Bastian Schäffer	2009-10-09
This document covers Geoprocessing Workflow best practices and methods in a SOA environment. A RESTful approach was also conducted in this testbed, but no specific implementation details were available to be included in this ER; also, the RESTful workflow approaches and technology used in this testbed was essentially same as that used in OWS-5.
OWS-6 GeoProcessing Workflow Thread Summary ER	0.3.0	09-063	Lewis Leinenweber	2009-09-11
This OGC® document summarizes work completed in the GeoProcessing Workflow thread of the OWS-6 Testbed, it is applicable to the OGC Interoperability Program testbed.
OWS-6 Georeferencable Imagery Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-034	Genong (Eugene) Yu, Liping Di	2009-07-29
This document discusses considerations about and recommendations for approaches for georeferenceable imagery under the Sensor Web Enablement thread during OGC Web Services Phase 6. This is an extension to the work described in the previous engineering report number OGC 08-071 . Georeferencealbe imagery is “a referenceable grid that has information that can be used to transform grid coordinates to external coordinates, but the transformation shall not be required to be an affine transformation”. Geolocation of georeferenceable imagery refers to the techniques described in ISO 19130, such as sensor models, functional fit models, and spatial registration using control points.
OWS-6 GeoXACML Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-036r2	Jan Herrmann, Andreas Matheus	2009-07-24
The aim of this OGC Engineering Report is to show how to provide access control for OGC Web Services (OWS). In the first part of this document we will briefly introduce the relevant details of XACML 2.0, OGC GeoXACML 1.0 and some related profiles.
OWS-6 GML Profile Validation Tool ER	0.3.0	09-038r1	Clemens Portele	2009-08-14
This document outlines an approach for validating data accessed from a Web Feature Service. Two types of validation are supported: • XML Schema validation against the GML application schema • Validation of additional constraints encoded in Schematron This report describes the validation tool, the types of constraints that have been tested and documents the results.
OWS-6 Outdoor and Indoor 3D Routing Services Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-067r2	Akiko Sato, Nobuhiro Ishimaru, Guo Tao, Masaaki Tanizaki	2009-09-11
This document described the Outdoor and Indoor 3D Routing and Services which are used in the OGC OWS-6 Decision Support Systems (DSS) thread. The objective is to enhance a network topology for the current CityGML specification based on the knowledge acquired through the development and experimental evaluation of this project.
OWS-6 Secure Sensor Web Engineering Report	0.3.0	08-176r1	Andreas Matheus	2009-07-29
The main purpose of this Engineering Report is to introduce standards-based security solutions for making the existing OGC Sensor Web Services, as described in the OWS-6 SWE baseline, ready towards the handling of sensors in the intelligence domain.
OWS-6 Security Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-035	Rüdiger Gartmann, Lewis Leinenweber	2009-10-09
This Engineering Report describes work accomplished during the OGC Web Services Testbed, Phase 6 (OWS 6) to investigate and implement security measures for OGC web services. This work was undertaken to address requirements stated in the OWS-6 RFQ/CFP originating from a number of sponsors, from OGC staff, and from OGC members.
OWS-6 SensorML Profile for Discovery Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-033	Simon Jirka, Arne Bröring	2009-07-29
This document defines a basic SensorML profile for discovery purposes. Besides a minimum set of metadata also the structure of according SensorML documents is defined in order to ensure a consistent metadata description. This goal is achieved by a set of Schematron rules that can be used to validate if a given SensorML document complies with the profile described in this engineering report.
OWS-6 Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-064r2	Ingo Simonis	2009-09-11
This OGC® document summarizes work completed in the OWS-6 Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) thread.
OWS-6 Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Changes ER	0.3.0	09-015	Craig Bruce	2009-09-11
This OGC® document reports the results achieved in the Decision Support Services (DSS) subtask of the OWS-6 testbed initiative as it relates to the extension of the OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) symbology format for improved capability and harmonization with ISO 19117 symbology, International Hydrographic Organization S-52 symbology, USGS Topomap symbology, and Homeland Security Emergency Management symbology.
OWS-6 SWE Event Architecture Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-032	Thomas Everding, Johannes Echterhoff	2009-07-29
The document describes an abstract event architecture for service oriented architectures. Furthermore various techniques for implementing an event architecture and working with events are discussed.
OWS-6 SWE Information Model Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-031r1	Thomas Everding	2009-07-16
This OGC® document is an OGC Engineering Report for the “Harmonization of SWE Information Models” activity within the OWS-6 SWE thread. The document discusses relations between OGC standards SensorML, SWE Common and GML and investigates solutions for increased synergy between these standards. This activity also created UML models of the data types used in SWE and GML. This report shows how UncertML can be integrated into different SWE encodings, namely SWE Common and Observations and Measurements. This report further discusses the integration of MathML and EML into the SWE environment with an emphasis on SensorML processes and processing. This document does not discuss the SWE information model related aspects of catalog entries for sensor services and discovery. This topic is covered in a separate Engineering Report.
OWS-6 SWE PulseNet™ Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-073	James Ressler	2009-08-05
This document summarizes work delivered on the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) thread of OWS-6. In particular, Northrop Grumman’s contribution from PulseNet™ to the Common Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Sensor Interface (CCSI) standard-compliant sensors into an OGC SWE-based architecture.
OWS-6 Symbology-Encoding Harmonization ER	0.3.0	09-012	Craig Bruce	2009-08-17
This OGC® document reports the results achieved in the Decision Support Services (DSS) subtask of the OWS-6 testbed initiative as it relates to the harmonization of OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) and Symbology Encoding (SE) symbology formats with ISO 19117 symbology format, International Hydrographic Organization S-52 symbology, USGS Topomap symbology, and Homeland Security Emergency Management symbology.
OWS-6 Symbology Encoding (SE) Changes ER	0.3.0	09-016	Craig Bruce	2009-09-11
This OGC® document reports the results achieved in the Decision Support Services (DSS) subtask of the OWS-6 testbed initiative as it relates to the extension of the OGC Symbology Encoding (SE) symbology format for improved capability and harmonization with ISO 19117 symbology, International Hydrographic Organization S-52 symbology, USGS Topomap symbology, and Homeland Security Emergency Management symbology.
OWS-6 UTDS-CityGML Implementation Profile	0.3.0	09-037r1	Clemens Portele	2009-07-20
This OGC document specifies a CityGML-based application schema for a subset of an Urban Topographic Data Store (UTDS) as specified by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The particular focus of this implementation profile was to test the applicability of CityGML to UTDS data. This document specifies the implementation profile as well as the findings.
OWS-6 WPS Grid Processing Profile Engineering Report	0.3.0	09-041r3	Bastian Baranski	2009-07-24
This OGC Engineering Report describes and reviews the Grid Computing related activity completed during the OGC OWS-6 Interoperability testbed. The document describes the WPS processes deployed in the different demonstration scenarios and offers recommendations to the OGC community as to how to better harmonize the standards work of the OGC with Grid Computing platforms and related concepts and technologies.