ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics
ISO/TC 211 is a standard technical committee formed within ISO, tasked with covering the areas of digital geographic information (such as used by geographic information systems) and geomatics. It is responsible for preparation of a series of International Standards and Technical Specifications numbered in the number range starting at ISO-19101. The Chair of the committee was 1994-2016: Olaf Østensen; during 2017-2018: Christina Wasström; and from 2019 Agneta Gren Engberg.
Scope
ISO/TC 211 is concerned with the standardization in the field of digital geographic information.[1] This work aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth.
Project specification areas within the ISO/TC 211 technical committee include:
- Simple Features access
- Reference models
- Spatial and temporal schemas
- Location-based services
- Metadata
- Web feature and map services
- Classification systems
The ISO/TC 211 work is closely related to the efforts of the Open Geospatial Consortium. ISO/TC 211 have numerous liaisons with other organizations that often results in identical or nearly identical standards often being adopted by both organizations.[2]
Working Groups
The work within ISO/TC211 is done in working groups, each with a specific focus. The currently active working groups are:
- Working Group 1 - Framework and reference model[3]
- Working Group 4 - Geospatial services[4]
- Working Group 6 - Imagery[5]
- Working Group 7 - Information communities[6]
- Working Group 9 - Information management[7]
- Working Group10 - Ubiquitous public access[8]
There are also a number of disbanded Working Groups:[9]
- Working Group 2 - Geospatial data models and operators
- Working Group 3 - Geospatial data administration
- Working Group 5 - Profiles and functional standards
- Working Group 8 - Location based services
Revision of standards that were previously part of these working groups are now done directly under the TC since the disbandment of the groups.
Published standards
The list of standards by the ISO/TC 211 committee:[10]
ISO 6709:2008 Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates
ISO 19101:2002 Geographic information -- Reference model
ISO/DIS 19101-1 ''Geographic information -- Reference model - Part 1: Fundamentals''[11]
ISO/TS 19101-2:2008 ''Geographic information -- Reference model -- Part 2: Imagery''
ISO/TS 19103:2005 Geographic information -- Conceptual schema language
ISO/TS 19104:2008 Geographic information -- Terminology
ISO 19105:2000 Geographic information -- Conformance and testing
ISO 19106:2004 Geographic information -- Profiles
ISO 19107:2003 Geographic information -- Spatial schema
ISO 19108:2002 Geographic information -- Temporal schema
ISO/CD 19109 Geographic information -- Rules for application schema
ISO 19109:2005 Geographic information -- Rules for application schema
ISO 19110:2005 Geographic information -- Methodology for feature cataloguing
ISO 19111:2007 Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates
ISO 19111-2:2009 Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates -- Part 2: Extension for parametric values
ISO 19112:2003 Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO 19113:2002 Geographic information -- Quality principles
ISO 19114:2003 Geographic information -- Quality evaluation procedures
ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information -- Metadata
ISO/DIS 19115-1 Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 1: Fundamentals
ISO 19115-2:2009 Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
ISO 19116:2004 Geographic information -- Positioning services
ISO 19117:2005 Geographic information -- Portrayal
ISO 19118:2011 Geographic information -- Encoding
ISO 19119:2011 Geographic information -- Services
ISO/TR 19120:2001 Geographic information -- Functional standards
ISO/TR 19121:2000 Geographic information -- Imagery and gridded data
ISO/TR 19122:2004 Geographic information/Geomatics -- Qualification and certification of personnel
ISO 19123:2005 Geographic information -- Schema for coverage geometry and functions
ISO 19125-1:2004 Geographic information -- Simple feature access -- Part 1: Common architecture
ISO 19125-2:2004 Geographic information -- Simple feature access -- Part 2: SQL option
ISO 19126:2009 Geographic information -- Feature concept dictionaries and registers
ISO/TS 19127:2005 Geographic information -- Geodetic codes and parameters
ISO 19128:2005 Geographic information -- Web map server interface
ISO/TS 19129:2009 Geographic information -- Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
ISO/TS 19130:2010 Geographic information - Imagery sensor models for geopositioning
ISO/DTS 19130-2 Geographic information -- Imagery sensor models for geopositioning -- Part 2: SAR, InSAR, Lidar and Sonar
ISO 19131:2007 Geographic information -- Data product specifications
ISO 19132:2007 Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Reference model
ISO 19133:2005 Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Tracking and navigation
ISO 19134:2007 Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Multimodal routing and navigation
ISO 19135:2005 Geographic information -- Procedures for item registration
ISO/TS 19135-2:2012 Geographic information - Procedures for item registration -- Part 2: XML schema implementation
ISO 19136:2007 Geographic information -- Geography Markup Language (GML)
ISO 19137:2007 Geographic information -- Core profile of the spatial schema
ISO/TS 19138:2006 Geographic information -- Data quality measures
ISO/TS 19139:2007 Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation
ISO 19141:2008 Geographic information -- Schema for moving features
ISO 19142:2010 Geographic information -- Web Feature Service
ISO 19143:2010 Geographic information -- Filter encoding
ISO 19144-1:2009 Geographic information -- Classification systems -- Part 1: Classification system structure
ISO 19144-2:2012 Geographic information - Classification systems -- Part 2: Land Cover Meta Language (LCML)
ISO/DIS 19145 Geographic information -- Registry of representations of geographic point location
ISO 19146:2010 Geographic information -- Cross-domain vocabularies
ISO/CD 19147 Geographic information -- Location based services -- Transfer Nodes
ISO 19148:2012 Geographic information -- Linear referencing
ISO 19149:2011 Geographic information -- Rights expression language for geographic information -- GeoREL
ISO/PRF TS 19150-1 Geographic information -- Ontology -- Part 1: Framework
ISO/CD 19150-2 Geographic information -- Ontology -- Part 2: Rules for developing ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
ISO/FDIS 19152 Geographic information -- Land Administration Domain Model (LADM)
ISO/DIS 19153 Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM)
ISO/WD 19154 Geographic information -- Ubiquitous public access -- Reference model
ISO 19155:2012 Geographic information -- Place Identifier (PI) architecture
ISO 19156:2011 Geographic information -- Observations and measurements
ISO/DIS 19157 Geographic information -- Data quality
ISO/TS 19158:2012 Geographic information—Quality assurance of data supply'
ISO/DTS 19159-1 Geographic information -- Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data -- Part 1: Optical sensors
ISO/WD 19160-1 Addressing -- Part 1: Conceptual model
References
- "ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics Scope". ISO/TC211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "ISO/TC 211 External Liaisons". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Working group 1 - Framework and reference model". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Working group 4 - Geospatial services". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Working group 6 - Imagery". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Working group 7 - Information communities". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Working group 9 - Information management". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Working group 10 - Ubiquitous public access". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "Work concluded - Disbanded Groups". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- "ISO/TC 211 Programme of work". ISO/TC 211. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
- "ISO 19101-1:2014 Geographic information -- Reference model -- Part 1: Fundamentals". ISO. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
Further reading
- Wolfgang Kresse; David M. Danko (2012). Springer Handbook of Geographic Information. Springer. pp. 411–422. ISBN 978-3-540-72680-7. §13.3.2 ISO/TC 211.
- ISO/TC 211 Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms
External links
- ISO/TC 211 official website
- Resource site for ISO/TC 211
- ISO/TC 211 committee website
- TC211 wiki
- Standards tracker - bug reports
- GitHub home - standards in progress