OGC announces EO Profile for web catalog services

05 March 2010, 11:22am

Wayland, Mass., 5 March 2010 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Catalogue
Services Standard Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products, and also the related Geography Markup
Language (GML) Application Schema for EO Products. Together, these standards, when implemented, will enable more efficient data
publishing and discovery for a wide range of stakeholders who provide and use data generated by satellite-borne and aerial radar, optical and atmospheric sensors. The OASIS standard ebRIM (Electronic business Registry Information Model) is the preferred cataloguing metamodel foundation for application profiles of the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Web (CS-W) Standard.

The CS-W ebRIM EO standard describes a set of interfaces, bindings and encodings to be implemented in catalog servers so that data providers can publish descriptive information (metadata) about Earth Observation data. Developers can also implement this standard as part of Web clients that will enable data users and their applications to very efficiently search and exploit these collections of Earth Observation data.

The CS-W ebRIM EO standard was developed based on requirements from the European Space Agency and partners as part of the Heterogeneous
Missions Accessibility project. The Submission Team for this standard included ERDAS, Spacebel s.a. and the European Space Agency. The Geography Markup Language (GML) Application Schema for EO products was developed by the European Space Agency, the French Space Agency, the European Satellite Center, Spacebel s.a. and Spot Image.

The CS-W ebRIM EO standard and the GML Application Schema for EO products are available at the link below.

CS-W ebRIM EO standard and the GML Application Schema for EO

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

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