Cloud Computing

An OGC initiative to make using Big Data as easy as downloading an app from a store, bringing processing to the data rather than the other way around.

The OGC's Data Access and Processing API will enable scientists and geospatial analysts to analyse data in a way mostly independent of its location, supporting the Open Science movement.

A recent OGC workshop led to the development of a new definition of data cube and underscored the need for a user-centric approach.

OGC's Testbed-17 will investigate cloud-based processing apps, convenience Web APIs, semantic interoperability, and discrete global grid systems as a simplified location reference.