The recent 111th OGC Technical Committee (TC) Meeting was one of our biggest, with more than 280 people attending, including key standards leaders and regional experts from industry, academia, and government. The Meeting was held at the House of the Province of Vlaams-Brabant in Leuven, Belgium from 24–27 June, 2019, and was sponsored by KU Leuven, Hexagon, Informatie Vlaanderen, and Merkator.

In addition to the many Working Group meetings, this TC Meeting featured an Earth Observation (EO) Summit, a special Sharing Data in Agriculture Session, special sessions on Innovation Program activities in Europe, as well as two social events held across two beautiful local venues.

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3D IoT Platform for Smart Cities Pilot: Call for Participation is now available. Responses are due Sept 2nd. The Pilot will advance the use of open standards for integrating environmental, building, and Internet of Things (IoT) data in Smart Cities.

Combined Disasters Resilience 2019 & GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot: Work is underway, focusing on end-to-end wildfire, hurricane, landslides, and agriculture and food security scenarios, including the prototyping of a health SDI for disasters. Work will be briefed at the AmeriGEO meeting in Lima in Aug 19th.

H2020 CYBELE: Kick-off meeting occurred in January in Barcelona. 

H2020 DataBio: Conference session occurred at the Living Planet Symposium in Milan this May.

H2020 NextGEOSS: Pilots coming soon: Marine, Agriculture, Disasters, AIP-10, and others. 

Indoor Mapping and Navigation Pilot: Findings and recommendations were presented at the Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders Meeting in Chicago on July 10. The draft Engineering Report is nearing completion, with a publication vote expected at the OGC September TC Meeting.

Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Phase 1 - CDS: The final report is close to being released!

Maritime Limits and Boundaries Pilot: Geoscience Australia, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Natural Resources Canada, and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office are sponsoring Pilot Phase 1. The Kickoff took place in Ottawa in May. Initiative execution will continue into the fall. Phase 2 planning is also underway.

Mixed Reality to the Edge Concept Development Study: The final report is close to being released!

Routing API Pilot: Seven participants are working feverishly on different types of routes and data sets to complete the Pilot by a September deadline.

Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment (SELFIE): The Kickoff meeting took place April 29. The activity is moving ahead at light speed.

Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture (SCIRA): The SCIRA Pilot initiative is being sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science & Technology (S&T). The purpose is to advance smart-city standards and develop open, interoperable designs for incorporating Internet of Things (IoT) sensors into city services. The City of St. Louis, Missouri will host several of the Pilot activities, which will be performed by eight OGC member participants. The Virtual Kickoff took place July 23, and initiative execution will continue through the end of the year. An Engineering Report is expected to be published in 1st Quarter 2020.

Testbed 14: The Testbed-14 Engineering Reports (ERs) have been published and are available at the OGC Public Engineering Report Repository.

Testbed 15: Initiative execution is underway and will continue through November. 

Testbed-16: The OGC annual Testbed for 2020 is still open for new requirements and sponsors. Requirements will be frozen on October 31st.

The following companies have had one or more products (re)certified compliant with OGC standards since the March issue of OGC Update:

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