OGC publishes openEO as a new Community Standard

Written on May 14, 2026 by Matthias Mohr.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has officially published the openEO specification as a new OGC Community Standard.

The standard consists of two complementary parts:

• The openEO API (version 1.2.0) (opens new window), the HTTP API specification defined as an OpenAPI document and approved as an OGC Community Standard.
• The openEO Processes (version 1.2.0) (opens new window), the collection of requirements for separately versioned predefined processes conforming to the openEO API specification, approved as an OGC Community Practice.

The published standard is available on the OGC website (opens new window).

Note: At the time the specification was submitted to OGC, both the openEO API and openEO Processes were at version 1.2.0. Due to the length of the standardization process, the published documents could not be updated to newer versions in time. The latest releases are currently openEO API v1.3.0 and openEO Processes v2.0.0-rc.2 (opens new window). We plan to update the OGC Community Standard once a stable release of openEO Processes 2.0 becomes available.