Geospatial Standards

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Here we compile the known geospatial standards:

OGC

OpenGIS Standards

includes the following:
- CSW
- GeoAPI 3.0
- Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML)
- Observations and Measurements - XML Implementation
- Open GeoSMS Standard
- Catalogue Services Standard 2.0 Extension Package for ebRIM
- PUCK Protocol Standard
- Sensor Planning Service Implementation Standard
- SWE Common Data Model Encoding Standard
- WCS 2.0 Interface Standard
  - Core
  - KVP Protocol Binding Extension
  - XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension
  - XML/SOAP Protocol Binding Extension
- KML
- Location Services (OpenLS): Tracking Service Interface Standard
- NetCDF Core Encoding Standard version 1.0
- Web Service Common Implementation Specification
- OpenGIS
  - City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard
  - Georeferenced Table Joining Service Implementation Standard
  - SWE Service Model Implementation Standard
  - Web Map Tile Service Implementation Standard
  - Catalogue Service Implementation Specification
  - Coordinate Transformation Service Implementation Specification
  - Filter Encoding 2.0 Encoding Standard
  - Geographic Objects Implementation Specification
  - Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard
  - GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery Encoding Specification
  - Implementation Specification for Geographic Information - Simple feature access - Part 1: Common architecture
  - Implementation Specification for Geographic Information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL option
  - Location Service (OpenLS) Implementation Specification: Core Services
  - Location Services (OpenLS) Part 6 - Navigation Service
  - Sensor Model Language (SensorML)
  - Sensor Observation Service
  - Simple Features Implementation Specification for COBRA
  - Simple Features Implementation Specification for OLE/COM
  - Styled Layer Descriptor Profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification
  - Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification
  - Transducer Markup Language
  - Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Language Interface Standard
  - Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Processing Extension (WCPS)
  - Web Feature Service (WFS)
    - Implementation Specification
    - Implementation Specification (Transactional)
    - Implementation Specification with XLinks
    - WFS 2.0 Interface Standard (also ISO 19142)
  - Web Map Context Implementation Specification
  - Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification
- Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products Interface Standard
- Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Transaction operation extension
- Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Implementation Standard
- Web Processing Service (WPS)

FGDC

FGDC Endorsed External Standards

includes the following:
- GeoTIFF
- HDF5
- INCITS
  - 145-1986
  - 31-2009
  - 38-2009
  - 446-2208
  - 453-2009
  - 454-2009
  - 455-2009
- INCITS/ISO
  - 19107:2003 [R2008]
  - 19108:2002 [R2008] w/Cor 1:2006
  - 19110:2005 [R2010]
  - 19111:2007
  - 19111-2:2007
  - 19112:2003 [2004]
  - 19115:2003 [R2008] w/Cor 1:2006
  - 19115-2:2009
  - 19118:2005 [2006]
  - 19119:2005 [R2010]
  - 19119:2005/AM 1:2008
  - 19123:2005 [2006]
  - 19132:2007 [2008]
  - 19133:2005 [2006]
  - 19134:2007
  - 19135:2005 [2006]
  - 19141:2008
- ISO
  - 19109:2005
  - 19127:2005
  - 19131:2007
  - 19136:2007
  - 19144-1:2009
  - 3166
  - 6709:2008/Cor 1:2009
- ISO/IEC
  - 13818-2:2000
  - 13818-3:1998
  - 15444-1:2004 ITU-T Rec. T.800
- ISO/IEC IS 10918-1 ITU-T Rec T.81
- ISO/TS
  - 19103:2004
  - 19104:2008
  - 19138:2006
  - 19139:2007
- Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
- OGC
  - 04-094; OGC 06-027r1
  - 04-095
  - 05-005; OGC 08-050
  - 05-007r7; OGC 08-091r6
  - 05-077r4
  - 05-078r4
  - 06-009r6
  - 06-024r4
  - 06-042
  - 07-000, OGC 07-122r2
  - 07-006r1; OGC 07-010
  - 07-045
  - 07-057r7
  - 07-067r5, 07-066r5
  - 07-074
  - 07-134r2
  - 07-147r2
  - 08-028r7
  - 06-024r4
  - 07-014r3
- TIFF Revision 6.0
- Unified Markup Language (UML) 2.2

FGDC-endorsed standards developed within FGDC

ISO

ISO Technical Committee (TC) 211 TC 211 - Geographic information/Geomatics

includes 56 published standards:
- ISO 6709:2008 Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates
- ISO 19xxx - "Geographic information" series:
  - 19101 Reference model
  - 19103 Conceptual schema language
  - 19104 Terminology
  - 19105 Conformance and testing
  - 19106 Profiles
  - 19107 Spatial schema
  - 19108 Temporal schema
  - 19109 Rules for application schema
  - 19110 Methodology for feature cataloguing
  - 19111 Spatial referencing by coordinates
  - 19112 Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
  - 19113 Quality principles
  - 19114 Quality evaluation principles
  - 19115 Metadata
  - 19116 Positioning services
  - 19117 Portrayal
  - 19118 Encoding
  - 19119 Services
  - 19120 Functional standards
  - 19121 Imagery and gridded data
  - 19122 Qualification and certification of personnel
  - 19123 Schema for coverage geometry and functions
  - 19125 Simple feature access -- Part 1: Common architecture
  - 19125 Simple feature access -- Part 2: SQL option
  - 19126 Feature concept dictionaries and registers
  - 19127 Geodetic codes and parameters
  - 19128 Web map server interface
  - 19129 Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
  - 19130 Imagery sensor models for geopositioning
  - 19131 Data product specifications
  - 19132 Location-based services -- Reference model
  - 19133 Location-based services -- Tracking and navigation
  - 19134 Location-based services -- Multimodal routing and navigation
  - 19135 Procedures for item registration
  - 19136 Geographic Markup Language (GML)
  - 19137 Core profile of the spatial schema
  - 19138 Data quality measures
  - 19139 Metadata -- XML schema implementation
  - 19141 Schema for moving features
  - 19142 Web Feature Service
  - 19143 Filter encoding
  - 19144 Classification systems -- Part 1: Classification system structure
  - 19146 Cross-domain vocabularies
  - 19149 Rights expression language for geographic information -- GeoREL
  - 19156 Observations and measurements
  - 19157 Data Quality