Geospatial Standards

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