For agricultural activities, the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) has developed a series of standards for soil quality and pedology, farm
buildings, structures and installations, agricultural machines, implements and equipment, fertilizers, pesticides and other agrochemicals, animal feeding stuff, beekeeping, hunting, fishing and fish breeding, tobacco, and tobacco products and related
equipment [https://www.iso.org/ics/65/x/].
5.2.2 OGC
The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) is an international not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community. OGC standards are technical documents that detail interfaces or encodings.
These documents are used to build open interfaces and encodings in software
products and services to ensure the interoperability between them. For example, a
Web Map Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically
from geographic information in OGC WMS Implementation Specification. This
international standard defines a “map” to be a portrayal of geographic information
as a digital image file suitable for display on a computer screen. According to the
WMS service interface defined in this standard, a WMS client could access any
WMS service developed by any other community.
The OGC standards are focusing on geospatial data modeling (e.g., Geography
Markup Language), data representation (e.g., Simple Feature Access), data rendering (e.g., Web Map Service), data access (e.g., Web Coverage Service), data search
(e.g., catalogue service), and others. They have been used in a wide variety of
domains, including the environment, defense, health, agriculture, meteorology,
sustainable development, and many more. OGC members come from the government, commercial organizations, NGOs, and academic and research organizations.
To facilitate the use and development of OGC standards in the agricultural
domain, the OGC established the Agriculture Domain Working Group (http://
www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/agriculturedwg) to meet many important
goals such as matching precision agricultural machinery with precision agricultural
knowledge and promoting crop resiliency at large and small scales.
5.2.3 CEN
The CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, is an association that brings
together the national standardization bodies of 34 European countries. The CEN is
one of the three European standardization organizations (together with CENELEC
and ETSI) that is being responsible for developing and defining voluntary standards
at the European level.
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(ISO) has developed a series of standards for soil quality and pedology, farm
buildings, structures and installations, agricultural machines, implements and equipment, fertilizers, pesticides and other agrochemicals, animal feeding stuff, beekeeping, hunting, fishing and fish breeding, tobacco, and tobacco products and related
equipment [https://www.iso.org/ics/65/x/].
5.2.2 OGC
The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) is an international not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community. OGC standards are technical documents that detail interfaces or encodings.
These documents are used to build open interfaces and encodings in software
products and services to ensure the interoperability between them. For example, a
Web Map Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically
from geographic information in OGC WMS Implementation Specification. This
international standard defines a “map” to be a portrayal of geographic information
as a digital image file suitable for display on a computer screen. According to the
WMS service interface defined in this standard, a WMS client could access any
WMS service developed by any other community.
The OGC standards are focusing on geospatial data modeling (e.g., Geography
Markup Language), data representation (e.g., Simple Feature Access), data rendering (e.g., Web Map Service), data access (e.g., Web Coverage Service), data search
(e.g., catalogue service), and others. They have been used in a wide variety of
domains, including the environment, defense, health, agriculture, meteorology,
sustainable development, and many more. OGC members come from the government, commercial organizations, NGOs, and academic and research organizations.
To facilitate the use and development of OGC standards in the agricultural
domain, the OGC established the Agriculture Domain Working Group (http://
www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/agriculturedwg) to meet many important
goals such as matching precision agricultural machinery with precision agricultural
knowledge and promoting crop resiliency at large and small scales.
5.2.3 CEN
The CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, is an association that brings
together the national standardization bodies of 34 European countries. The CEN is
one of the three European standardization organizations (together with CENELEC
and ETSI) that is being responsible for developing and defining voluntary standards
at the European level.
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