OGC Press Releases

Mark Reichardt
President & CEO
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Inc.
+1 301-840-1361
mreichardt@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA, November 20, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) will launch a Hydrology Interoperability Experiment (HDWG_IE1) on December 8, 2009. The initiators of the experiment seek participation by other organizations interested in developing standard ways of discovering, sharing and interpreting groundwater data using OGC Web Services (OWS) interface and encoding standards.

This interoperability experiment will advance the development of WaterML 2.0 and test its use with various OWS standards, including the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), and Catalog Service Web (CSW) Interface Standards. The experiment will also investigate the interaction of WaterML 2.0 with GroundwaterML (GWML) in scenarios involving the sharing of groundwater data between the USA and Canada.

David Arctur, PhD
Director, Interoperability Programs
OGC
tel: +1-512-771-1434
darctur@opengeospatial.org

October 28, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 7 (OWS-7) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities. The RFQ/CFP is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/60.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA, October 14, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) joins the World Standards Day celebration, announcing a Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP).

World Standards Day (http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1250) is celebrated by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITC) and other organizations each year on 14 October to honor the efforts of thousands of experts worldwide who collaborate to develop voluntary International Standards that facilitate trade, spread knowledge and disseminate technological advances.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA, October 14, 2009.  The GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase 2 (AIP-2) has been completed with leadership by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®). The AIP-2 Pilot activity, which began in September 2008, is a project of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations) AR-09-01b Task Team. OGC's activities in AIP-2 were sponsored in part by the USGS, ERDAS, Northrop Grumman and the European Space Agency.  AIP-1 demonstrated GEO Portal and Clearinghouse solutions. AIP-2 established "operational, research and technical exemplars", services that support several of the GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs): Disaster Management, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Air Quality and Health, and Renewable Energy.

Frédéric Guillaud
Meteo-France
DSI/DEV
42 avenue Gaspard
Coriolis
31057 Toulouse
France
tel : (+33) 5 6107 8118
frederic.guillaud@meteo.fr

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Athina Trakas
Director, Business Development, Europe
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)
Heerstrasse 162
Bonn 53111
Germany
+49 228 693733
atrakas@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, MA., USA, 9 October 2009. Meteo France, the UK Met Office, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) jointly announce that the 2nd Workshop on the Use of GIS/OGC Standards in Meteorology will be held at the Conference International Centre at Meteo-France, Toulouse, France, from 23-25 November 2009. See http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/gis-ogc/ for details.

The aims of this workshop are to review applications of OGC and other standard Web services, encodings, and analytical methodologies across the meteorology community; discuss relationships between the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and OGC; and define a roadmap for further activities of the OGC Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group. This working group provides an open forum on meteorological and oceanographic systems interoperability and a formal process for developing international consensus standards that may be submitted to the WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) for adoption.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

October 9, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) announces that Dr. Carl Reed, the CTO and Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards Program, has been inducted into the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) GIS Hall of Fame.

URISA established the GIS Hall of Fame to recognize and honor leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual's record of contribution to the advancement of the industry must demonstrate creative thinking and actions, vision and innovation, inspiring leadership, perseverance, and community mindedness. URISA Hall of Fame Laureates are individuals or organizations whose pioneering work has moved the geospatial industry in a better, stronger direction.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

September 24, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has a limited number of registrations available for the Spatial Law and Policy Summit that will be held at The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center on October 7, 2009. Professionals from government and the private sector whose work involves laws and policies related to geospatial technology are invited to register and attend.

The Summit will feature a keynote talk by Dr. Robert W. Corell, Vice President of Programs at The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Most noted for his role in climate science research, Dr. Corell served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the American Meteorological Society and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. During his long tenure as Assistant Director for Geoscience at the National Science Foundation, Dr. Corell also served as Chair of the President's National Science and Technology Council's Committee for oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

September 23, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts. On behalf of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association, the OGC invites organizations to participate in the GSDI Association Small Grants Program. The application deadline for the Small Grants Program for the year 2009-10 is 1 October 2009.

The GSDI Association, along with partners and participants, has allocated resources from the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee and the GISCorps (http://www.giscorps.org/) of URISA, to fund a small grants program to support national or sub-national activities that foster partnerships, develop in-country technical capacity, improve data compatibility and access, and increase political support for spatial data infrastructure and earth observations application development. Grants are of two types: Cash up to 2,500 USD to be used on your project, and/or GISCorps Professional Services applied to your project. For details, see http://www.gsdi.org/node/175 or contact grants@gsdi.org.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

September 16, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has a limited number of registrations available for the Spatial Law and Policy Summit that will be held at The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center on October 7, 2009. Professionals from government and the private sector whose work involves laws and policies related to geospatial technology are invited to register and attend.

This event, the fifth in OGC's series of Emerging Technology Summits, provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine law and policy related to technologies such as GPS, GIS, camera surveillance and sensor networks, and location services. Innovation and growth in consumer and business applications of geospatial systems, software and services raise serious questions of privacy, security, geospatial rights management, procurement regulations, and charging for government data. As the speakers will explain, in many cases, the existing legal and policy framework is inadequate to provide governments, businesses and consumers clear guidance on these issues.

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Wayland, Mass., September 10, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will hold a Spatial Law and Policy Summit at The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center on October 7, 2009. Professionals from government and the private sector whose work involves laws and policies related to geospatial technology are invited to register and attend.

This unprecedented event will feature a keynote talk by Robert W. Corell, Vice President of Programs at The Heinz Center. Noted for his role in climate science research, Dr. Corell has served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society and as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.