The ISPRS is a liaison-member of two ISO Technical Committees, ISO/TC 211 and ISO/TC 172.

The 2009 programme of work of ISO/TC 211 "Geographic information / Geomatics" includes imagery, geospatial services, and information management.

Imagery: The ISO 19130 "Imagery sensor model for geopositioning" is completed and will be published soon. The work on the new ISO 19130-2 has started and will add further sensors such as SAR/InSAR, Lidar, and Sonar, as well as aerial triangulation. The ISO 19159 "Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data" is another new standardization project. Regarding aerial cameras major contributions are expected from EuroDAC², the European Digital Aerial Camera Certification group run by EuroSDR. Other project partners of ISO 19159 come from all around the world, e.g. Australia, Japan and the USA.

Geospatial services: Some of the standards are new such as ISO 19142 "Web Feature Service" and ISO 19149 "Rights expression language for GI" (both originally developed by the OGC). Other standards are being revised because they have reached their 5-year-limit. In particular the ISO 19117 "Portrayal" will gain substance as the first version was a brief document only.

Information management: The new standard ISO 19158 "Quality assurance of data supply" has almost reached maturity. The new ISO 19157 "Data quality" will incorporate three individual former standards, the ISO 19113 "Quality principles", the ISO 19114 "Quality evaluation procedures", and the ISO 19138 "Data quality measures". The ISO 19115-2 " Metadata - Part 2: Metadata for imagery and gridded data" has been completed.

The liaison-status of ISPRS regarding ISO/TC 172 "Optics and photonics" has been reaffirmed in 2009. Many of their topics are of interest to the ISPRS. Three subcommittees (SCs) are of particular interest: SC 1 "Fundamental standards" including general optical test methods and environmental test methods, SC 3 "Optical materials and components", and SC 9 "Electro-optical systems" including terminology and test methods for lasers, safety, and optical components and their test methods.

Since 2009 the author is the liaison-representative of ISPRS to both ISO Technical Committees.

The Ad-hoc group on standards of the ISPRS is regularly involved in the meetings of the Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF) of GEOSS. This work has led to the publicly accessible "GEOSS Standards Registry". Through SIF the ISPRS participates in the GIGAS-project (GIGAS = GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES, an Action in Support).

The status of the Open Geospatial Consortium's work is well summarized in the "OGC Reference Model", a document that was published a year ago. It covers the enterprise view, geospatial information, geospatial services, patterns for deployment, and the implementation. The chapter on services provides a detailed listing of OGC services covering Web services, Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), Processing Services and Service Chaining, as well as Mass-market, Open Location, and Fine-Grained Services.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kresse
University of Applied Sciences
Fachbereich Landschaftsarchitektur, Geoinformatik, Geodäsie und Bauingenieurwesen

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