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Land degradation poses as high a risk as climate change to our species' survival. OGC's work in developing relevant data standards will improve the interoperability between the different tools and technologies used to monitor and report on it.

The challenges OGC is trying to overcome in using artificial intelligence in geospatial applications, in conversation with GeoAI Domain Working Group co-chair Kyoung-Sook Kim.

Work is underway to free OGC standards and technologies from their terrestrial constraints, applying decades of geospatial expertise to the emerging challenges of space exploration and commercialisation.

The real world and the internet will merge thanks to the 'metaverse' – and geospatial information and technology will be key to that combination.

Geofencing standards to create 'no-fly zones' for UAVs – the latest developments and how the industry can get involved.

Advances in meteorology are opening up whole new markets and applications, but standards will be needed if the sector is to avoid siloing and errors.

Combining IoT, 3D city models, indoor location, smart devices, dynamic routing and more, using only open standards and commercially available hardware, brings safety benefits for cities of all sizes.

Urban digital twins are already transforming cities, but R&D, standards and community involvement will all be needed to exploit their true potential.

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.

The OGC's Tech Trends activity and the technologies set to transform geospatial in 2020 and beyond – from data science and UAVs to digital twins and the Web of Data.

OGC's community of location experts is collaborating on a new family of web developer-friendly APIs to support a future geared towards data integration and innovation.

How the Open Geospatial Consortium is developing ways to make location information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

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.