American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

ASPRS

Professional association developing standards, guidelines, specifications and best practices, most notably the LAS lidar format.

USA

SDO

The mission of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is to promote the ethical application of active and passive sensors, the disciplines of photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information systems and other supporting geospatial technologies; to advance the understanding of the geospatial and related sciences; to expand public awareness of the profession; and to promote a balanced representation of the interests of government academia and private enterprise

Australian Research Data Commons

ARDC

Partnerships between govrnment, industry and reserach. Provides access to data and software collections.

AUS

Standards Promotion and CoP

ARDC is a transformational initiative that enables Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant, leading edge data intensive eInfrastructure, platforms, skills and collections of high-quality data. In partnerships with organisations, we will lead facilitations that work towards a coherent research environment to enable researchers to find, access, contribute to and effectively use services to maximise research quality and impact.

CARIGEO Initiative

UN-GGIM: Americas

Caribbean Region Collaboration

Regional

CoP

CARIGEO is a collaborative effort among the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC), public agencies of Member States and Territories within the Caribbean, geospatial private sector organizations, academic institutions and civil society representatives, which seeks to empower the countries and territories of the Caribbean region to advance the use and sharing of geospatial, statistical and related information to support improved decision making for sustainable national and regional development.

Committee on Data of the International Science Council

CODATA

Improvement of availability and usability of data for all areas of research

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

CODATA exists to promote global collaboration to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research. CODATA supports the principle that data produced by research and susceptible to be used for research should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary. CODATA works also to advance the interoperability and the usability of such data: research data should be intelligently open or FAIR. By promoting the policy, technological and cultural changes that are essential to promote Open Science, CODATA helps advance ISC’s vision and mission of advancing science as a global public good.

Earth Science Information Partners

ESIP

Earth Science

USA

Standards Promotion and CoP

Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS and 130+ member organizations. Leader in promoting the collection, stewardship and use of Earth science data, information and knowledge that is responsive to societal needs. Supports the networking and data dissemination needs of our members and the global Earth science data community by linking the functional sectors of observation, research, application, education and use of Earth science.

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GEOSS

4 working groups focusing on Capacity Development, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Data

Global

CoP

More than 60 global and regional initiatives are contributing to Earth observation data, services, knowledge and capacity development. The GEO Work Programme encompasses biodiversity observations, ecosystem accounting, water resources management, agriculture, food security and many more.

GO-FAIR

GO-FAIR

Europe

Standards Promotion and CoP

GO FAIR is a bottom-up, stakeholder-driven and self-governed initiative that aims to implement the FAIR data principles, making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). It offers an open and inclusive ecosystem for individuals, institutions and organisations working together through Implementation Networks (INs). The INs are active in three activity pillars: GO CHANGE, GO TRAIN and GO BUILD.

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

INSPIRE

European Region

Europe

Standards Promotion and CoP

INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. This European Spatial Data Infrastructure will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations, facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe and assist in policy-making across boundaries.

International Federation of Surveyors

FIG

Surveying, Land Administration, Geospatial

Global

CoP

FIG is a UN and World Bank recognized NGO covering FIG covering a range of professional fields within the global surveying community, hereunder surveying, cadastre, valuation, mapping, geodesy, hydrography, geospatial, and quantity surveyors and provides an international forum for discussion and development aiming to promote professional practice and standards.

International Network of Soil Information Institutions

INSII

Soils

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

The International Network of Soil Information Institutions (INSII) is composed by nationally mandated institutions and Global Soil Partnership partners developing the Global Soil Information System (GLOSIS). GLOSIS is a standards-based SDI for brining together and sharing soils infomration from cooperating national institutions.

International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange

IODE

Marine

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

The International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange is a specialialized programme within the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). Its primary purpose is to enhance marine research and realted activities and promoting/supporting the exhange of marine data and information between particpating Member States.

International Hydrographic Organization

IHO

Marine

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

IHO supports the Marine CoP

ISO/TC 211 Geographic Information / Geomatics

ISO TC/211

ISO/TC 211 WGs include focus on several CoPs

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

ISO/TC 211 has WG activities that support CoPs in the following areas: Geodetic Networks, Land Administration, Metadata and Catalogue,

One Geology

OneGeology

Geology

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

International initiative of the geological surveys of the world who are working together with the support of international organisations, regional organisations and industry sponsors. OneGeology works to improve the WWW accessibility (including interoperability) and usefulness of global geoscience data needed to address many societal issues including mitigation of hazards, meeting resource requirements, and climate change.

Open Geospatial Consortium Domain Working Groups

OGC

over 40 different Domain Working Groups supporting a range of CoPs including Agriculture, Aviation, Meteorology, Emergency and Disaster Mgt

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

OGC Domain Working Groups provide a forum for discussion of key interoperability requirements and issues, discussion and review of implementation specifications, and presentations on key technology areas relevant to solving geospatial interoperability issues in a particular community of practice or technology area. DWGs include over 40 areas of focus, including:Agriculture, Aviation, Big Data, Earth System Science, Engery and Utilities, Health, Meteorology and Oceanography, Marine, Emergency and Disaster Management, and Smart Cities.

Research Data Alliance

RDA

95 working and interest groups coveing all areas of reserach, development of best practice , etc.

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

With over 10000 members from 145 countries, RDA provides a neutral space where its members can come together to develop and adopt infrastructure that promotes data-sharing and data-driven research

UN-GGIM WG on Geospatial Infomration and Services for Disasters

UN-GGIM-WG5

Emergency, Disaster Management

Global

CoP

This WG has a mandate mandate to develop and implement a strategic framework that brings all stakeholders and partners involved in Disaster Risk Reduction and/or Emergency Management together to ensure that quality geospatial information and services are available and accessible in a timely and coordinated way to support decision-making and operations within and across all sectors and phases of disaster risk management.

UNGGIM Expert Group on Land Administration and Management

UNGGIM-EG-LAM

Land Administration

Global

CoP

This UN-GGIM Expert Committee promotes the use of geospatial information tools and systems to improve the legal certainty of all citizens in the world with respect to the registration of the relation between people and land.

UNGGIM WG on Marine Geospatial Information

UNGGIM-WG-MGI

Marine

Global

CoP

The UNGGIM Marine WG supports raising awareness of the importance of marine geospatial infomration, and encourages the use of internationally agreed-upon geospatial information frameworks, schemas, systems and established standards to improve the growing inter-dependent relationships between people and the marine environments; and

US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

USGIF

Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security

USA

CoP

The USGIF Is a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger GEOINT Community with government, industry, academia, professional organizations, and individuals who develop and apply geospatial intelligence to address national security challenges.

World Meteorological Organization

WMO

Weather, Climate, Water Resources

Global

Standards Promotion and CoP

The World Meteorological Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics (source Wikipedia)