FDBNS OGC 19-086r6 (V1.1): 2023 OGC API -ENVIRONMENTAL DATARETRIEVAL STANDARD Version: 1.1

The Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality (BBSQ) is in the enquiry phase of developing the following standards that have been prepared by the Technical Committee comprising of technical experts from a wide cross section of stakeholders. The standard being issued for public comment, in accordance with the provisions set out in the Standards Act, Chapter 338 (2006), and in keeping with the international best practices and standards development procedures. Please note that these standards should not be reprinted or used for any other purpose other than review and public comments. This is due to the documents being copyrighted by ISO and being the sole property of the Bahamas Government.

The OGC API — Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) standard provides a family of lightweight query interfaces to access spatiotemporal data resources by requesting data at a Position, within an Area, along a Trajectory or through a Corridor. A spatio-temporal data resource is a collection of spatio-temporal data that can be sampled using the EDR query pattern geometries. These patterns are described in the section describing the Core Requirements Class.

The goals of the EDR Application Programming Interface (API) that is specified by this standard are to: Make it easier to access a wide range of data through a uniform, well-defined simple Web interface;

To achieve data reduction to just the data needed by the user or client while hiding much of the data storage complexity.

A major use case for the EDR API is to retrieve small subsets from large collections of environmental data, such as weather forecasts, though many other types of data can be accessed. The important aspect is that the requested data can be unambiguously specified by spatio-temporal coordinates.