{"id":2285,"date":"2023-01-10T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=initiatives&#038;p=2285"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:34:50","slug":"apianalytics","status":"publish","type":"initiatives","link":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/initiatives\/apianalytics\/","title":{"rendered":"ESIP and OGC API \u2013 Coverages and Processing Analytics Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESIP and&nbsp;OGC API &#8211;&nbsp;Coverages and Processing Analytics Sprint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Event Twitter Hashtag:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OGCapiSprint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">#OGCAnalyticsSprint<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start:&nbsp; Monday, 6 January 2020 &#8211; 09:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End:&nbsp; Tuesday, 7 January 2020&nbsp;&#8211; 17:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Event Agenda and Logistics on <a href=\"https:\/\/2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com\/event\/Vabd\/esip-and-ogc-api-coverage-analytics-sprint-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESIP Winter Meeting Pages<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Event Description:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Earth Science Information Partners (<a href=\"http:\/\/esipfed.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESIP<\/a>) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are convening an agile development sprint to advance APIs for analytics on coverages, arrays, and gridded data. This will be a key event in the development of OGC APIs for geospatial resources and building blocks for community APIs. The event will be co-located with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com\/info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2020 ESIP Winter Meeting<\/a>, which draws Earth Science data and information professionals from across the public, private, and academic sectors. A previous&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/OGCAPI_Hack2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC API Hackathon in June 2019&nbsp;<\/a>advanced common elements across OGC APIs for Features, Coverages, Map Tiles, Processing and Catalogs. The next sprints are advancing specific elements of the individual APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/blog\/2996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC has been developing a new generation of web API standards<\/a> leveraging OpenAPI to document requirements for implementation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/opengeospatial\/ogc_api_coverages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC API &#8211; Coverages<\/a> places the semantics of the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.opengeospatial.org\/files\/?artifact_id=19820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Geospatial Coverages<\/a> into an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openapis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OpenAPI<\/a> resource-oriented approach.&nbsp; To date a basic access method for a coverage resource has been defined. OGC API &#8211; Coverages needs to be extended to include methods for analytics. Consistent with the OGC API approach, these coverage analytics methods are being made available as building blocks for reuse in APIs in any community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advancing specifications and methods for coverage analytics is called for in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/standards\/requests\/191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC Geospatial Coverages Data Cubes Community Practice<\/a>.&nbsp; In that document, a Geospatial Coverage Data Cube supports analytics using either <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.opengeospatial.org\/files\/08-059r4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC WCS Processing Extension <\/a>(WCS-P) and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/standards\/wps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC Web Processing Service<\/a> (WPS).&nbsp; The document also calls for development for analytic interoperability, based on: Jupyter notebooks and Python scripting language; Array Databases, e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/standard\/67382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ISO\/IEC 9075-15 <\/a>SQL\/MDA (Multi-Dimensional Arrays); xarray, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/geoxarray\/geoxarray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GeoXarray<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/zarr.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/api.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ZARR API<\/a>; WCPS and WCS-P; and&nbsp; OGC API &#8211; Coverages. Also relevant are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/standards\/netcdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OGC NetCDF standard and extensions<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.opendap.org\/index.php\/DAP4:_Specification_Volume_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">DAP\/OPeNDAP specification<\/a> and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/qb4st\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> RDF Data Cube with Geo-Spatial Extensions<\/a>. These technologies will be considered in the API &#8211; Coverage Analytics Sprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An OGC Sprint is a collaborative and inclusive event driven by innovative and rapid programming with minimum process and organization constraints to support the development of new applications and candidate standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be an opportunity for joint discussion with all participants on the goals and objectives of the event, as well as the final briefing of findings and opinions of the participants. However, the majority of the time will be spent in collaboration between participants in active coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sprint will be run by the OGC API &#8211;&nbsp;Coverages Standards Working Group (SWG) chairs, the OGC API &#8211; Processing SWG Chairs, key leadership from the&nbsp;ESIP, additional leadership, and with support from OGC staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attendance priority will be given to those with an implementation or desire to implement the specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A limited amount of travel support is available. Please complete&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1f4EFnjtPiDXZJIcJ0ZjG5Sz5-sY7r1IDpEMOZ_DxbLU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">this form<\/a>&nbsp;to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Location: ESIP Winter Meeting, Bethesda Maryland, USA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint advancing OGC API Coverages and Processing with new analytics methods for arrays, gridded data, and geospatial resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2696,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_eb_attr":""},"initiative-category":[67,43],"initiative-tag":[],"class_list":["post-2285","initiatives","type-initiatives","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","initiative-category-completed","initiative-category-initiative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/initiatives"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"initiative-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiative-category?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"initiative-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiative-tag?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}