Defining standard interfaces for image exploitation services

The current effort in the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) to develop open s pecifications for a set of software interfaces that enable diverse geoproce ssing systems to access each other's image exploitation functions and image data is described. The objective is to specify standard interfaces to the functions needed for both use and production of data. Developing the Abstra ct Model of these services is the task of the OGC Technical Committee's Ima ge Exploitation Services Special Interest Group (IES SIG). The specificatio n will become part of OGC's OpenGIS Specification, which is intended to add ress software and data interoperability in every kind of geoprocessing, inc luding GIS, photogrammetry, remote sensing, digital cartography, and others .