Introduction to the OSGeo Foundation.

As large repositories of EO data become increasingly available, the ability to search across these repositories and archives of data is paramount importance to address the geospatial data and metadata explosion.

Distributed search requires standard for metadata encodings, and behaviour of how to delegate requests against remote catalogues. In addition, metadata mappings and crosswalks are critical when attempting to harmonize across metadata standards as part of real-time distributed search.

This presentation will provide an overview of recent work in pycsw in the context of the ESA EOEPCA project, as well as updates to the OGC API - Records standard to add formal specification of this behaviour.

pygeoapi is an OGC API Reference Implementation. Implemented in Python, pygeoapi supports numerous OGC APIs via a core agnostic API, different web frameworks (Flask, Starlette, Django) and a fully integrated OpenAPI capability. Lightweight, easy to deploy and cloud-ready, pygeoapi's architecture facilitates publishing datasets and processes from multiple sources. The project also provides an extensible plugin framework, enabling developers to implement custom data adapters, filters and processes to meet their specific requirements and workflows. pygeoapi also supports the STAC specification in support of static data publishing.

pygeoapi has a significant install base around the world, with numerous projects in academia, government and industry deployments. The project is also an OGC API Reference Implementation, lowering the barrier to publishing geospatial data for all users.

This presentation will provide an update on the current status, latest developments in the project, including new core features and plugins. In addition, the presentation will highlight key projects using pygeoapi for geospatial data discovery, access and visualization.