OGC^® Technical Paper Repository

OGC publishes many different types of documents for public for use, review and comment. These are NOT official positions of the OGC, and they are not standards and do not have the same level of OGC endorsement.

Technical Papers

• OGC® Sensor Web Enablement: Overview And High Level Architecture (07-165r1)
• Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) (09-044r3) PDF
• OGC Identifiers - the case for http URIs (10-124r1) PDF
• OGC Compliance Testing White Paper (10-128) PDF
• OGC Standards and Cloud Computing (11-036) PDF
• Open Source and Open Standards (11-110) DOC
• Cyberarchitecture for Geosciences White Paper (11-145) PDF
• The Open Geospatial Consortium and EarthCube (11-159) PDF
• Architecture of an Access Management Federation for Spatial Data and Services in Germany (12-026) PDF
• OGC Information Technology Standards for Sustainable Development (14-095) PDF
• OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework (14-115) PDF
• OGC Compliance Overview - Guide for Software Acquisition (15-002r5) PDF
• OGC® Open Geospatial APIs - White Paper (16-019r4) PDF
• Big Geospatial Data – an OGC White Paper (16-131r2) PDF
• The Role of Geospatial in Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing - An OGC White Paper (18-004r1) PDF
• OGC White Paper on Land Administration (18-008r1) PDF
• Health Spatial Data Infrastructure: Application Areas, Recommendations, and Architecture (19-076) PDF
• OGC Benefits of Representing Spatial Data Using Semantic and Graph Technologies (19-078r1) PDF
• Geospatial Data Science (20-001r2) PDF
• Advancing the Interoperability of Geospatial Intelligence Tradecraft with 3D Modeling, Simulation, and Game Engines (20-085r1) PDF
• Enabling information continuity across BIM-GIS domains: A bSI and OGC strategic roadmap (24-057) PDF
• OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024: D-123 Generative AI in Wildland Fire Management Engineering Report (24-071) PDF
• Open Geospatial Consortium DP-24 Extreme Heat Supplemental Engineering Report: NYC GISMO Team (24-072) PDF
• Moving Beyond SDI to GKI to Bring Geospatial Awareness to LLMs to Support Climate and Disaster Resilience (24-073) PDF
• OGC Climate Disaster and Resilience Pilot 2024: Landslide Demonstrators Report (24-074) PDF
• OGC Climate and Disaster Resilience Pilot 2024: Analysis Ready Data (ARD) to Decision Ready Information (DRI) Report (24-075) PDF
• Moving Forward Together: The Emergence of the Interconnected Geospatial Ecosystem (25-017) PDF
• Observation and Sampling of a Smiley Face (25-038) PDF
• The Machine-Interpretable Standards Ecosystem: Standards, Profiles, Building Blocks, and Registers. An Architectural Framework for a Composable, Disco (26-021) PDF
• Building Blocks for Interoperable, AI-Ready Geospatial Data: The Next Chapter of Spatial Data Infrastructures and Geospatial Ecosystems (26-050) PDF
• The OGC Interoperable, AI-Ready Geospatial Data Building Blocks: A Technical Overview (26-051) PDF