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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W16-2025-157-2025</article-id>
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<article-title>OGC-AI: A Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Model Interface for Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Santhanavanich</surname>
<given-names>Thunyathep</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-7000</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Coors</surname>
<given-names>Volker</given-names>
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<addr-line>Center for Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (HFT Stuttgart), Stuttgart, Germany</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Faculty of Environmental Sciences Technical University Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany</addr-line>
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<day>20</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>XLVIII-4/W16-2025</volume>
<fpage>157</fpage>
<lpage>163</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Thunyathep Santhanavanich</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>In this research, OGC-AI is presented as a retrieval-augmented large language model (LLM) interface that enables plain-language access to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services while keeping organization-internal endpoints private. Standards documents and service metadata are automatically harvested and indexed; at inference time, relevant snippets are retrieved to compose syntactically correct, standards-compliant requests, execute them via a secure proxy, and return grounded answers with source links. As of 30 April 2025, the corpus comprises 397 documents across 92 OGC standards, spanning both legacy and modern APIs commonly used in Spatial Data Infrastructures. The two use cases are including (i) the use of OGC-AI with complex SensorThings API request, and (ii) generating a working CesiumJS example that consumes geospatial data from OGC API services. A retrieval-augmented strategy is favored over cache-augmented alternatives to accommodate a large, evolving standards landscape. Current limitations (e.g., multi-step analytics, semantic disambiguation, dependence on upstream document structures) and a roadmap toward interactive mapping, task decomposition, and quantitative evaluation are outlined. By lowering the skill barrier to OGC-compliant data access, OGC-AI advances the FAIR principles&amp;mdash;especially Accessibility and Reusability within established SDIs.</p>
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