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OGC's Open Standards for Geospatial Interoperability

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Open standards; Web map service; WMS; Web coverage service; WCS; Standards; Interoperability; Exchange, data

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This chapter summarizes the most significant aspects of the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) web services (OWS) architecture. This architecture is a service‐oriented architecture, with all components providing one or more services to other services or to clients.

The definition of services includes a variety of applications with different levels of functionality to access and use geographic information. While specialized services will appropriately remain an area for proprietary products, standardization of the interfaces to those services allows interoperability between proprietary products. Geographic information system and software developers will use these standards to provide general and specialized services that can be used for all geographic information. The approach of this Chapter and the referenced standards is integrated with the approaches...

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Recommended Reading

  1. OGC 00-014r1, Guidelines for Successful OGC Interface Specifications

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  2. OGC 2001, Introduction to OGC Web Services

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  3. OGC 02-006, OpenGIS Abstract Specification Topic 12: OpenGIS Service Architecture

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  4. OGC 03-025, OpenGIS Web Services Architecture

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  5. OGC 05-008, OGC Web Services Common Specification, version 1.0.0

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  6. OGC 05-010, URNs of definitions in ogc namespace

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  7. OpenGIS® Standards: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards

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  1. Open Geospatial Consortium, Herndon, VA, USA

    George Percivall

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  1. George Percivall
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Percivall, G. (2008). OGC's Open Standards for Geospatial Interoperability. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_904

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