Introduction to the OGC Geodatacube Standard Working Group

Over the past decade, a multitude of independent initiatives have developed solutions to answer the need for Analysis-Ready Data, in order to reduce the time and effort required in order to generate added value out of raw, heterogeneous data. These initiatives resulted in various GeoDataCube (GDCs) implementations, standards, data formats and best practices.Interoperability between the GDC solutions has so far not been a core concern but with the increasing amount of data served as GDCs as well as its increasing uptake, it is becoming essential to understand what exactly a GDC entails, how it was created, and how different GDCs can be used together consistently. This presentation shall focus on the OGC GeoDataCube Standards Working Group (SWG) which has recently been initiated to tackle these issues proposing viable solutions defined as a standard.