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Engineering Report OGC 11-108
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OWS-8 Observation Fusion Tracking
1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document analyzes the usability of OGC services and encodings to implement the information models defined in OWS-8 engineering report “Information Model for
Moving Target Indicators and Moving Object Bookmarks” OGC 11-113.
In addition, it describes the XML-Schemas derived from the UML information models. It complements the engineering report OGC 11-134 “OWS-8 Tracking: Moving Target
Indicator Process, Workflows and Implementation Results ER”, which describes the concrete implementation performed in OWS-8.
1.2 Document contributor contact points
All questions regarding this document should be directed to the editor or the contributors:
Name Organization
Ingo Simonis iGSI GmbH
1.3 Revision history
Date Release
Editor Primary clauses
modified Description
September 28, 2011
1.0.0 Ingo
Simonis All
Initial version
1.4 Future work
As OWS-8 comes to end with the release of this document, no further updates can be expected. On the other hand, the topic itself requires further analysis in terms of serving
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video and radar data at OGC interfaces. At the moment, there are no specialized interfaces available. Though this gap can potentially be bridged by WCS implementations
to provide access to radar data, efficient access of video material is not covered by any OGC specification.
1.5 Forward
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be subject of patent rights. The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. shall not be held
responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Recipients of this document are requested to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent claims or other intellectual property rights of which they may be
aware that might be infringed by any implementation of the standard set forth in this document, and to provide supporting documentation.
2 Terms and definitions
All terms and definitions are used according to corresponding NATO and MISB standards. For a list of standards, please consult the bibliography at the end of this
document.
2.1 Motion Imagery
