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This is a list of projects currently being worked on by Standards Australia's Standards Development Team.
Project Code
Project Title
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Geographic information - Reference model - Part 2: Imagery
International Adoption - Identical
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Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for acquisition and processing
International Adoption - Identical
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Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions - Part 2: Coverage implementation schema
International Adoption - Identical
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Geographic information - Cross-domain vocabularies
International Adoption - Identical
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Geographic information - Data quality - Amendment 1: Describing data quality using coverages
International Adoption - Identical
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Geographic information - Preservation of digital data and metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals
International Adoption - Identical
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Geographic information - Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data - Part 3: SAR/InSAR
International Adoption - Identical
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The constitution of a Technical Committee consists of the Nominating Organisations that represent various interest groups across the industries. These Nominating Organisations are currently participating in Standards Australia’s Standards Development activity. The Nominating Organisation appoints a representative to represent the views of that organisation’s interest group during the development of a Standard.
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ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council
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Australian Antarctic Division
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Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Australian Hydrographic Office
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Australian Maritime Safety Authority
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BD-104 Liaison
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CSIRO
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Curtin University of Technology
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Department of Communications (Australian Government)
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Department of Defence (Australian Government)
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Department of Human Services (Australian Government)
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For Information
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Geoscience Australia
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Independent Chairperson (Australia)
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InterGovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping
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Land Information New Zealand
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Master Builders Australia
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New Zealand Geospatial Office
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Science New Zealand Inc
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Spatial Industries Business Association
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Standards New Zealand
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The University of Melbourne
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Standards Australia participates in Standards development with the International standards bodies as listed below.
For further information on ISO relationships please visit ISO’s website www.iso.org
For further information on IEC relationships please visit IEC’s website www.iec.ch
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Geographic information/Geomatics
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Below is the list of current Standards developed and published by Standards Australia. This list does not display the obsolete, superseded, available superseded and withdrawn Standards. The published Standards are documents that set out specifications and procedures designed to ensure products, services and systems are safe, reliable and consistently perform the way they are intended to.
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Designation
Publication Title
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Interchange of client information, Part 1: Data elements and interchange formats
This Standard sets out requirements for data elements for the interchange of client information. The data elements covered comprise party identification, person details, organization details, addressing, and electronic contact details.
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Geographic information - Conceptual schema language
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to provide rules and guidelines for the use of a conceptual schema language within the context of geographic information. The chosen conceptual schema language is the Unified Modelling Language (UML). This Standard also provides a profile of the Unified Modelling Language (UML).
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Geographic information - Terminology
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to specify requirements for the collection, management and publication of terminology in the field of geographic information.
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Geographic information - Rules for application schema
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define rules for creating and documenting application schemas, including principles for the definition of features.
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Geographic information - Methodology for feature cataloguing
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define the methodology for cataloguing feature types. This document specifies how feature types can be organized into a feature catalogue and presented to the users of a set of geographic data.
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Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates, Part 2: Extension for parametric values
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to specify the conceptual schema for the description of spatial referencing using parametric values or functions.
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Geographic information - Services
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define requirements for how platform neutral and platform specific specification of services shall be created, in order to allow for one service to be specified independently of one or more underlying distributed computing platforms. This Standard also defines requirements for a further mapping from platform neutral to platform specific service specifications, in order to enable conformant and interoperable service implementations.
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Geographic information - Procedures for item registration, Part : Fundamentals
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to specify procedures to be followed in establishing, maintaining, and publishing registers of unique, unambiguous, and permanent identifiers and meanings that are assigned to items of geographic information. In order to accomplish this purpose, AS ISO 19135.1 specifies elements that are necessary to manage the registration of these items.
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Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML), Part 2: Extended schemas and encoding rules
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define the XML Schema syntax, mechanisms and conventions that: (a) provide an open, vendor-neutral framework for the description of geospatial application schemas for the transport and storage of geographic information in XML; (b) allow profiles that support proper subsets of GML framework descriptive capabilities; (c) support the description of geospatial application schemas for specialized domains and information communities; (d) enable the creation and maintenance of linked geographic application schemas and data sets; (e) support the storage and transport of application schemas and data sets; and (f) increase the ability of organizations to share geographic application schemas and the information they describe.
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Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML), Part 2: Extended schemas and encoding rules
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define the XML Schema syntax, mechanisms and conventions that: (a) provide an open, vendor-neutral framework for the description of geospatial application schemas for the transport and storage of geographic information in XML; (b) allow profiles that support proper subsets of GML framework descriptive capabilities; (c) support the description of geospatial application schemas for specialized domains and information communities; (d) enable the creation and maintenance of linked geographic application schemas and data sets; (e) support the storage and transport of application schemas and data sets; and (f) increase the ability of organizations to share geographic application schemas and the information they describe.
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Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML), Part 2: Extended schemas and encoding rules
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define the XML Schema syntax, mechanisms and conventions that: (a) provide an open, vendor-neutral framework for the description of geospatial application schemas for the transport and storage of geographic information in XML; (b) allow profiles that support proper subsets of GML framework descriptive capabilities; (c) support the description of geospatial application schemas for specialized domains and information communities; (d) enable the creation and maintenance of linked geographic application schemas and data sets; (e) support the storage and transport of application schemas and data sets; and (f) increase the ability of organizations to share geographic application schemas and the information they describe.
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Geographic information - Transfer Nodes
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to specify the data types and code lists associated with those types for the implementation of transfer nodes and their services in transport modelling and location based services.
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Geographic information - Ontology, Part 2: Rules for developing ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define rules and guidelines for the development of ontologies to support better the interoperability of geographic information over the Semantic Web. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is the language adopted for ontologies.
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Geographic information - Ubiquitous public access - Reference model
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define a reference model for ubiquitous public access (UPA) to geographic information. This reference model uses standard concepts from both the Open distributed processing reference model (RM-ODP) in ISO/IEC 10746‑1 and AS/NZS ISO 19101.
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Geographic information - Place Identifier (PI) architecture, Part 2: Place Identifier (PI) linking
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define the following three mechanisms for linking Place Identifiers (PIs) (see AS/NZS ISO 19155) to features or objects existing in other encodings: (a) Id attribute of a GML object (gml:id) as defined in AS/NZS ISO 19136; (b) Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) as defined in IETF RFC 4122; (c) Uniform Resource Locator (URL) as defined in IETF RFC 1738.
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Geographic information - Rural and urban addressing
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Rural and urban addressing
Provides requirements and guidance for addressing authorities to use for assigning addresses, naming roads and localities, recording and mapping the related information, and related signage.
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Geographic information - Reference model - Part 1: Fundamentals
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO 19101-1 to specify and provide geographic information system, developers with, the schema required for describing geographic information and services.
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Geographic information - Reference model
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Geographic information - Conformance and testing
Provides users of the ISO 19100 series of Standards with the framework, concepts, and criteria to be achieved to claim conformance to those Standards.
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AS/NZS ISO 19105:2002 Rec:2015
Geographic information - Conformance and testing
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AS/NZS ISO 19106:2005 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Profiles
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Geographic information - Profiles
Adopts ISO 19106:2004 which specifies the concept of a profile of the ISO geographic information standards developed by ISO/TC 211 and provides guidance for the creation of such profiles.
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AS/NZS ISO 19107:2005 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Spatial schema
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Geographic information - Spatial schema
Adopts ISO 19107:2003 which specifies conceptual schemas for describing the spatial characteristics of geographic features, and a set of spatial operations consistent with these schemas.
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Geographic information - Temporal schema
Provide users of the ISO 19100 series of Standards with concepts for describing temporal characteristics of geographic information.
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AS/NZS ISO 19108:2003 AMDT 1
Geographic information - Temporal schema
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AS/NZS ISO 19108:2003 Rec:2015
Geographic information - Temporal schema
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Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates
This Standard defines conceptual schema for the description of spatial referencing by coordinates, optionally extended to spatial-temporal referencing.
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AS/NZS ISO 19111-2008 REC:2018
Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates
RECONFIRMATION OF AS/NZS ISO 19111-2008 Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates
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AS/NZS ISO 19112:2005 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
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Geographic information - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
Adopts ISO 19112:2003 which specifies the conceptual schema for spatial references based on geographic identifiers.
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Geographic information - Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO 19115-1:2014 to define the schema required for describing geographic information and services by means of metadata.
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AS/NZS ISO 19115.1:2015 Amd 1:2018
Geographic information - Metadata, Part 1: Fundamentals
International adoption identical
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AS/NZS ISO 19115.1:2015 Amd 1:2018
Geographic information - Metadata, Part 1: Fundamentals
International adoption identical
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Geographic information - Metadata
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AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005 AMDT 1
Geographic information - Metadata
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AS/NZS ISO 19116:2005 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Positioning services
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Geographic information - Positioning services
Adopts ISO 19116:2004 which specifies the data structure and content of an interface that permits communication between position-providing device(s) and position-using device(s) so that the position-using device(s) can obtain and unambiguously interpret position information and determine whether the results meet the requirements of the use.
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Geographic information - Portrayal
Adopts ISO 19117:2012, which specifies a conceptual schema for portrayal data, in particular symbols and portrayal functions.
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Geographic information - Encoding
Adopts ISO 19118:2011, which specifies the requirements for defining encoding rules for use for the interchange of data that conform to the geographic information in the set of International Standards known as the ‘ISO 19100’ series.
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AS/NZS ISO 19120:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Functional standards
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Geographic information - Functional standards
International adoption modified
Adopts ISO/TR 19120:2001 which provides starting point for a feedback cycle between the functional standards communities and the ISO 19100 series component project teams.
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AS/NZS ISO 19121:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Imagery and gridded data
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Geographic information - Imagery and gridded data
Adopts ISO/TR 19121:2000 which reviews the manner in which raster and gridded data is currently being handled in the Geomatics community in order to propose how this type of data should be supported by geographic information standards.
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AS/NZS ISO 19122:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information/Geomatics - Qualification and certification of personnel
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Geographic information/Geomatics - Qualification and certification of personnel
International adoption modified
Adopts ISO/TR 19122:2004 which describes and defines the objectives of the field of Geographic Information/Geomatics.
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AS/NZS ISO 19123:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions
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Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions
International adoption modified
Adopts ISO 19123:2005 which provides systems users and designers with definitions of conceptual schema for the spatial characteristics of coverages.
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AS/NZS ISO 19125.1:2004 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 1: Common architecture
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Geographic information - Simple feature access - Common architecture
Adopts ISO 19125-1:2004 which specifies a common architecture and defines terms to use within the architecture.
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AS/NZS ISO 19125.2:2004 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL option
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Geographic information - Simple feature access - SQL option
Adopts ISO 19125-2:2004 which specifies an SQL schema that supports storage, retrieval, query and update of simple geospatial feature collections via the SQL Call Level Interface (SQL/CLI) (ISO/IEC 9075-3:1999).
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Geographic information - Feature concept dictionaries and registers
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AS/NZS ISO 19127:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Geodetic codes and parameters
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Geographic information - Geodetic codes and parameters
International adoption modified
Adopts ISO/TS 19127:2005 which defines rules for the population and maintenance of registers of geodetic codes and parameters and identifies the data elements.
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AS/NZS ISO 19128:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Web map server interface
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Geographic information - Web map server interface
International adoption modified
Adopts ISO 19128:2005 which provides systems users and designers with the specifics of the behaviour of a service that produces spatially referenced maps dynamically from geographic information. It specifies operations to retrieve a description of the maps offered by a server, to retrieve a map, and to query a server about features displayed on a map.
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Geographic information - Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
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Geographic information - Data product specifications
Adopts ISO 19131:2007 to specify requirements for geographic data products, based upon the concepts of other ISO 19100 Standards.
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AS/NZS ISO 19131-2008 AMDT 1
Geographic information - Data product specifications
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AS/NZS ISO 19131-2008 REC:2018
Geographic information - Data product specifications
RECONFIRMATION OF AS/NZS ISO 19131-2008 Geographic information - Data product specifications
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Geographic information - Location-based services - Reference model
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AS/NZS ISO 19133:2006 Rec:2016
Geographic information - Location-based services - Tracking and navigation
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Geographic information - Location-based services - Tracking and navigation
International adoption modified
Adopts ISO 19133:2005 which provides users and designers with a description of the data types, and operations associated with those types, for the implementation of tracking and navigation services.
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Geographic information - Location-based services - Multimodal routing and navigation
Adopts ISO 19134:2007 to specify the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of multimodal location-based services for routing and navigation.
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AS/NZS ISO 19134-2008 REC:2018
Geographic information - Location-based services - Multimodal routing and navigation
RECONFIRMATION OF AS/NZS ISO 19134-2008 Geographic information - Location-based services - Multimodal routing and navigation
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Geographic information - Procedures for item registration
Adopts ISO/TS 19135-2:2012 to define Geographic ReGister XML (grg) encoding, an XML schema implementation derived from AS/NZS ISO 19135.
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Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML)
Adopts ISO 19136:2007 to provide a Geography Markup Language (GML) Standard with XML encoding in compliance with ISO 19118 for the transport and storage of geographic information modelled in accordance with the conceptual modelling framework used in the ISO 19100 series of Standards.
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AS/NZS ISO 19136-2008 REC:2018
Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML)
RECONFIRMATION OF AS/NZS ISO 19136-2008 Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML)
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Geographic information - Core profile of the spatial schema
Adopts ISO 19137:2007 to define a core profile of the spatial schema specified in ISO 19107 that specified in accordance with ISO 19106, a minimal set of geometric elements necessary for the efficient creation of application schemata.
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AS/NZS ISO 19137-2008 REC:2018
Geographic information - Core profile of the spatial schema
RECONFIRMATION OF AS/NZS ISO 19137-2008 Geographic information - Core profile of the spatial schema
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Geographic information - Metadata - XML schema implementation
Adopts ISO/TS 19139:2007 to define Geographic MetaData XML (gmd) encoding, an XML schema implementation derived from ISO 19115.
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Geographic information - Schema for moving features
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Geographic information - Web Feature Service
To specify the behaviour of a web feature service that provides transactions on and access to geographic features in a manner independent of the underlying data store.
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Geographic information - Filter encoding
To describe an XML and KVP encoding of a system neutral syntax for expressing projections, selection and sorting clauses collectively called a query expression.
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Geographic information - Classification systems
To establish the structure of a geographic information classification system, together with the mechanism for defining and registering the classifiers for such a system.
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AS/NZS ISO 19144.1:2011 Amdt 1:2015
Classification Systems, Part 1: Classification System Structure
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Geographic information - Classification systems
Adopts ISO 19144-2:2012 to specify a Land Cover Meta Language (LCML) expressed as a UML metamodel that allows different land cover classification systems to be described based on the physiognomic aspects.
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Geographic information - Registry of representations of geographic point location
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO 19145:2013 which specifies procedures to be followed in establishing, maintaining and publishing registers of unique, unambiguous and permanent identifiers, and meanings that are assigned to items of geographic information.
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Geographic information - Cross-domain vocabularies
To define a methodology for cross-mapping technical vocabularies that have been adopted by industry-specific geospatial communities. It also specifies an implementation of ISO 19135 for the registration of geographic information concepts for the purpose of integrating multiple domain-based vocabularies.
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Geographic information - Linear referencing
Adopts ISO 19148:2012 to specify a conceptual schema for locations relative to a one-dimensional object as measurement along (and optionally offset from) that object. It defines a description of the data and operations required to use and support linear referencing. Applicable to transportation, utilities, location-based services and other applications which define locations relative to linear objects.
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Geographic information - Rights expression language for geographic information - GeoREL
Adopts ISO 19149:2011 to define an XML-based vocabulary or language to express rights for geographic information in order that digital licenses can be created for such information and related services.
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Geographic information - Land Administration Domain Model (LADM)
Adopts ISO 19152, which defines a reference Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) covering basic information-related components of land administration (including those over water and land, and elements above and below the surface of the earth).
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Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM)
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO 19153:2014 which is a reference model for digital rights management (DRM) functionality for geospatial resources (GeoDRM).
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Geographic information - Place Identifier (PI) architecture
Adopts ISO 19155:2012 to specify an architecture that defines a reference model with an encoding method for an identifier of a place.
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Geographic information - Observations and measurement
Adopts ISO 19156:2011 to define a conceptual schema for observations, and for features involved in sampling when making observations. These provide models for the exchange of information describing observation acts and their results, both within and between different scientific and technical communities.
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Geographic information - Data quality
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO19157:2013 to establish the principles for describing the quality of geographic data.
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Geographic information - Quality assurance of data supply
Adopts ISO/TS 19158:2012 to provides a framework for quality assurance specific to geographic information. It is based upon the quality principles and quality evaluation procedures of geographic information identified in ISO 19157 and the general quality management principles defined in ISO 9000.
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Addressing, Part 1: Conceptual model
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define a conceptual model for address information (address model), together with the terms and definitions that describe the concepts in the model. Lifecycle, metadata, and address aliases are included in the conceptual model. The model is presented in the Unified Modelling Language (UML).
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Geographic information - Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems
International adoption identical
The objective of this Standard is to define the structure and content of a text string implementation of the abstract model for coordinate reference systems described in AS/NZ ISO 19111:2008 and AS/NZS ISO 19111.2:2018.
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Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates
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Geographic information - Metadata, Part 3: XML schema implementation for fundamental concepts
International adoption identical
The objective of this Technical Specification is to define an integrated XML implementation of AS/NZS ISO 19115.1, AS/NZS ISO 19115.2, and concepts from SA/SNZ TS ISO 19139.2 by defining the following artefacts: (a) a set of XML schema required to validate metadata instance documents conforming to conceptual model elements defined in AS/NZS ISO 19115.1, AS/NZS ISO 19115.2, and AS/NZS ISO 19139; (b) a set of ISO/IEC 19757‑3 (Schematron) rules that implement validation constraints in the AS/NZS ISO 19115.1 and AS/NZS ISO 19115.2, UML models that are not validated by the XML schema; (c) an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) for transforming AS/NZS ISO 19115.1 metadata encoded using the AS/NZS ISO 19139 XML schema and AS/NZS ISO 19115.2 metadata encoded using the SA/SNZ TS ISO 19139.2 XML schema into an equivalent document that is valid against the XML schema defined in this document.
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Geographic information - Data quality, Part 2: XML schema implementation
International adoption identical
The objective of this Technical Specification is to define data quality encoding in XML. It is an XML schema implementation derived from AS/NZS ISO 19157 and the data quality related concepts from SA TS ISO 19115.2.
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Geographic information - Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data, Part 2: Lidar
International adoption identical
The objective of this Technical Specification is to define the data capture method, the relationships between the coordinate reference systems and their parameters, as well as the calibration of airborne lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors.
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Geographic information - Content components and encoding rules for imagery and gridded data, Part 1: Content model
International adoption identical
The objective of this Technical Specification is to classify imagery and regularly spaced gridded thematic data into types based on attribute property, sensor type and spatial property, and defines an encoding-neutral content model for the required components for each type of data. It also specifies logical data structures and the rules for encoding the content components in the structures.
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Geographic information - Ontology - Part 1: Framework
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO/TS 19150-1:2012 to define the framework for semantic interoperability of geographic information. This framework defines a high level model of the components required to handle semantics in the ISO geographic information standards with the use of ontologies.
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SA/SNZ TS ISO 19130.2:2015
Imagery Sensor Models for Geopositioning – Part 2: SAR, InSAR, LIDAR and Sonar
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO/TS 19130-2 to support the exploitation of remotely sensed images. It specifies the sensor models and metadata for geopositioning images remotely sensed by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Light Detection And Ranging (lidar), and Sound Navigation And Ranging (sonar) sensors. The specification also defines the metadata needed for the aerial triangulation of airborne and spaceborne images.
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SA/SNZ TS ISO 19139.2:2015
Geographic information - Metadata - XML schema implementation - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO/TS19139-2 to define geographic metadata for imagery and gridded data (gmi) encoding.
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SA/SNZ TS ISO 19159.1:2015
Geographic information - Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data - Part 1: Optical sensors
International adoption identical
Adopts ISO/TS 19159-1:2014 to define the calibration and validation of airborne and space borne remote sensing imagery sensors.
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The Sub Committees within the Technical Committee are listed here.
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IT-004-01 Advisory subcommittee for ISO/TC 211/WG 01 Framework and reference model
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IT-004-02 Advisory subcommittee for ISO/TC 211/WG 04 Geospatial services
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IT-004-03 Advisory subcommittee for ISO/TC 211/WG 06 Imagery
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IT-004-04 Advisory subcommittee for ISO/TC 211/WG 07 Information communities
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IT-004-05 Advisory subcommittee for ISO/TC 211/WG 09 Information management
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IT-004-06 Advisory subcommittee for ISO/TC 211/WG 10 Ubiquitous public access
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IT-004-08 IT-004 Distribution List