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OGP: help you evaluate geo-integrity of your software

Friday, November 11, 2011

The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) has launched an "initiative" to help software developers use best practise when evaluating geospatial integrity of their software.

"Geospatial integrity" means making sure objects are exactly where you thought they were, and avoiding problems when different systems have a positioning reference which does not align.

Problems with poor geospatial integrity of systems has caused some of the well known "friendly fire" incidents - which is why two of the biggest supporters of their Geodetic parameter dataset are US and UK military.

In the oil and gas industry, poor geospatial integrity can lead to the drilling completely missing the reservoir.

The initiative is called the "Geospatial Integrity of Geoscience Software" initiative or GIGS.

It can include a qualitative evaluation of any software's geospatial capability with a series of checklists, and perform a quantitative evaluation using approved test data sets.

GIGS is designed to be used by software companies, operators and users.

Over 95 per cent of the oil and gas industry's data is now spatially referenced, OGP says.

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