OGC Testbed-18 will pave the way towards new levels of interoperability in areas as diverse as New Space, Machine Learning, Open Science, and Building Energy.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organizations to respond to a Call for Participation (CFP) for OGC’s Testbed-18 Innovation Initiative, a collaborative effort to rapidly prototype, design, develop and test solutions to location-related problems. Responses are due by March 17th, 2022.

The Testbed-18 initiative will explore six tasks, including advanced Spatial Data Interoperability for Building Energy; Secure, Asynchronous Catalogs; Identifiers for Reproducible Science; Moving Features and Sensor Integration; 3D+ Data Standards and Streaming; and Machine Learning Training Data.

Latest revision to the Standards Guide provides recommendations on standards and good practices that ensure that the growing wealth of geospatial data and technologies can be shared, maintained, integrated, and applied.