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Open Standards for Sustainable Development

Denise McKenzie

Executive Director, Communications & Outreach

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Locate15

Brisbane, Australia

12 March 2015

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Who am I?

Executive Director

Communications & Outreach

Open Geospatial Consortium

Australian Citizen

UK Resident

Global traveler

@spatialred

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Whitepaper


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvgG-pxlobk






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The technosphere: human impacts, good & bad


We have

entered the

Anthropocene Epoch!

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Sustainability? It depends on us.

To understand, adapt to and mitigate human-caused

changes in the biosphere that supports us, we need

Information technology (IT), and lots of data!


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Exponential growth in data, but…

However,

data has

little value if

it can’t be

easily

discovered,

assessed,

accessed,

aggregated,

combined,

passed from

system to

system, etc.

We get lots

of data from

an explosion

of sensors,

satellites,

citizens,

models, etc.


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Open standards create a World Wide Web of Environmental data

Discover, assess, access, aggregate, combine, pass from system to system, etc.


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Data is worth more as a shared resource:

Open Data + Open Standards

enable:

• Reusability

• Virtual experiments

• Data-driven intelligence

• Big Data spatial analytics

• Harnessing the power of the crowd

Adapted from Reinventing Discovery – The New Era of Networked Science by Michael Nielson


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Standards are needed to…

for

science,

education,

business,

policy and

management

.

environmental

observations &

measurements…

communicate,

publish,

discover,

assess,

access,

aggregate,

and process…

to develop:

information,

knowledge,

and good

decisions


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Unobstructed flow of

environmental data

Data stovepipes

Consensus standards are essential!

Sciences

Professions

Industry

Government

Consensus within and

among:


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OGC’s Role in Environmental Standards

• Environmental features and phenomena exist in space & time.

• OGC helps communities and other SDOs develop standards

for communicating about things in space & time.

• Not “maps”, but space & time in IT space!


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Environment = natural + built environments

For natural environment: Geography

Markup Language (GML) = encoding

standard for all types of geospatial

data (including geosciences)

For built environment: CityGML (a

GML application schema) = encoding

standard for 3D urban models.


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GML, CityGML and SWE – Foundational standards

GML and CityGML

and

Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards (SensorML, Observations &

Measurements, Sensor Planning Service etc.) (and soon SensorThings)

provide the web service foundation for

… and other environmental standards yet to be developed.

WaterML GeoSciML WXXM netCDF PipeLineML


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Is PipeLineML an environmental standard?

Yes!

• Environment = natural + built environments

• Knowledge of Earth systems is not enough!

• Sustainable development means managing

resources, infrastructure and behavior,

guided by good science.

PipeLineML


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Environmental Accounting

• Sustainable development will impact commerce, corporate “good

will” accounts, government oversight, taxes, and perhaps

monetary systems.

• All of these will require environmental measurements & trustable,

transparent, and digitally useful communication of environmental

measurements.

“Triple bottom line” accounting


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Measurements that matter to value chains!

•Greenhouse gases & offsets

•Pollution

•Wastes

•Physical Infrastructure and “emergy*”

•Resources

•Hazards

•Health

What needs to be communicated?

(* embedded energy) RF spectrum


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Status of Environmental IT Standards

OGC geospatial Web Service, CityGML

and Sensor Web Enablement Standards Other Web Standards…

OGC WaterML 2.0 (adopted by OGC)

OGC GeoSciML (introduced into

OGC)

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PipelineML (beginning)

CarbonML (idea stage, prototype)

Sediment

ML (idea stage)

SoilML (under development

by JRC & partners)

Air ?

WXXM - Weather Information

Exchange Model

(WMO. Builds on OGC GML)

Radiofreq.

Spectrum ? Noise ? Species ?

Neighborhoods

?

? ? ? ? ? ? ?

S T A N D A R D S F O U N D A T I O N

Uncertainty &

Imprecision

Still-needed foundation standards:

Provenance Rights

management Unstructured

data Points of

Interest (PoI) More …


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The standards ecosystem is dynamic!

• JSON, REST, Linked Data and the Semantic Web

provide alternatives to and new ways of using Web

services. New IT trends will evolve.

• Also, disciplines’ and domains’ focus, data models

and workflows evolve.

• This dynamism requires ongoing standards work!


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United Nations – SD Post 2016 Goals

Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and

reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Goal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and

inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development


Sustainable Development Goals

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change

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It’s in our hands


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Denise McKenzie

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