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OGC’s Open Standards for Geospatial Interoperability

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Exchange, data; Interoperability; Open standards; Standards; WCS; Web coverage service; Web map service; WMS

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This chapter summarizes the most significant aspects of the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) web services (OWS) architecture. This architecture is a service-oriented architecture, with all components providing one or more services to other services or to clients.

The definition of services includes a variety of applications with different levels of functionality to access and use geographic information. While specialized services will appropriately remain an area for proprietary products, standardization of the interfaces to those services allows interoperability between proprietary products. Geographic information system and software developers will use these standards to provide general and specialized services that can be used for all geographic information. The approach of this Chapter and the referenced standards is integrated with the approaches being...

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  1. Open Geospatial Consortium, Herndon, VA, USA

    George Percivall

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Percivall, G. (2017). OGC’s Open Standards for Geospatial Interoperability. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_904

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