The new ISO TC211 standard project on sensor and data models for imagery and gridded data

A new standard development project was approved by ISO TC 211 in March 2001 to develop an international standard on sensor and data models for imagery and gridded data. The standard will specify a sensor model describing the physical and geometrical properties of each kind of photogrammetric, remote sensing and other sensors that produces imagery and gridded data. It will also define a conceptual data model that specifies, for each kind of sensors, the minimum content requirement and the relationship among the components of the content for the raw data that was measured by the sensor and provided in an instrument-based coordinate system, to make it possible to geolocate and analyze the data. The standard will be applicable to most low-level remote sensing data. As the leaders of this new ISO TC 211 standard development project, we invite the international remote sensing community to participate in the development of this new ISO standard.