Chapter 5
Standards and Interoperability
Yuqi Bai
Abstract Standards are documented consensus agreements containing safety, technical specifications, or other precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or definitions of characteristics for materials, products, processes, and services.
Standards are powerful tools that can help drive innovation and increase productivity. Standards on the modeling, classification, description, discovery and dissemination of the agriculture science data plays an important role to ensure the quality of,
interoperability between, and easy access to the agriculture data that are independently collected, processed, and shared in each nation, state, county or even city.
This chapter briefly introduces International Organization for Standardization
(ISO), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), European Committee for Standardization (CEN), and The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as representative international, regional and national standard organizations. With a focus on
information technology related standards that closely apply to agriculture activities,
it further presents standards on data content or encoding, metadata, and data services.
Keywords Standard · Data content · Metadata · Data service · ISO · OGC · CEN ·
ANSI · FAO
5.1 Introduction
Standards are documented consensus agreements containing safety, technical specifications, or other precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or
definitions of the characteristics of materials, products, processes, and services. In
many cases, they provide uniformity, which allows worldwide acceptance and
application of a product or material. The aim is to facilitate trade, exchange, and
Y. Bai (*)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
e-mail: yuqibai@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
L. Di, B. Üstündağ (eds.), Agro-geoinformatics, Springer Remote Sensing/
Photogrammetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66387-2_5
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Standards and Interoperability
Yuqi Bai
Abstract Standards are documented consensus agreements containing safety, technical specifications, or other precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or definitions of characteristics for materials, products, processes, and services.
Standards are powerful tools that can help drive innovation and increase productivity. Standards on the modeling, classification, description, discovery and dissemination of the agriculture science data plays an important role to ensure the quality of,
interoperability between, and easy access to the agriculture data that are independently collected, processed, and shared in each nation, state, county or even city.
This chapter briefly introduces International Organization for Standardization
(ISO), the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), European Committee for Standardization (CEN), and The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as representative international, regional and national standard organizations. With a focus on
information technology related standards that closely apply to agriculture activities,
it further presents standards on data content or encoding, metadata, and data services.
Keywords Standard · Data content · Metadata · Data service · ISO · OGC · CEN ·
ANSI · FAO
5.1 Introduction
Standards are documented consensus agreements containing safety, technical specifications, or other precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or
definitions of the characteristics of materials, products, processes, and services. In
many cases, they provide uniformity, which allows worldwide acceptance and
application of a product or material. The aim is to facilitate trade, exchange, and
Y. Bai (*)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
e-mail: yuqibai@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
L. Di, B. Üstündağ (eds.), Agro-geoinformatics, Springer Remote Sensing/
Photogrammetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66387-2_5
67