OGC Press Releases

OGC Standards Enable Armchair Captains to Track Rolex Fastnet Races

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2005-08-12
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Wayland, Mass, August 12, 2005 - There's a bit of invisible magic enabling the mapping website that shows the current positions of the sailing vessels in this year's Rolex Fastnet race from the Isle of Wight to Plymouth. Visitors to http://www.netandsea.com/fastnetrace/ see colorful maps from Netency with regularly updated data on 10 of the 250 yachts. But what pulls all the data together underneath? Elegant open geospatial standards.

OGC Web Services for GEOSS Demonstrated at Workshop in Korea

Release Date: 
2005-08-05
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Wayland, MA, August 5, 2005 - OGC Web Services (OWS) as applied to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) architecture were successfully demonstrated to an IEEE-OGC-ISPRS GEOSS Workshop on 24 July 2005 in Seoul, Korea. This was a special event for invited participants on the opening day of the International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2005. The demonstration showed that Earth Observation data and services are available now through open standard mechanisms highlighted in the GEOSS 10 Year Implementation Plan and Reference Document.

OGC announces GALEON Interoperability Experiment

Release Date: 
2005-07-01
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Wayland, MA, July 1, 2005 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) has announced that July 24, 2005 will be the kickoff date for an OGC Interoperability Experiment to support open access to atmospheric and oceanographic modeling and simulation outputs. The GALEON (Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean NetCDF) Interoperability Experiment will implement a geo-interface to netCDF datasets via the OpenGIS(R) Web Coverage Server (WCS 1.0) protocol specification. The interface will provide interoperability among netCDF, OPeNDAP, ADDE, and THREDDS client/server and catalog protocols.

OGC Invites Public Comment on GML in JPEG 2000 Specification

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2005-06-27
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Wayland, MA, June 27, 2005 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC®) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS® Implementation Specification. The OGC Document, "GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery (GMLJP2) Implementation Specification," is available for downloading from https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=11418.

Doug Nebert Receives OGC's Gardels Award

Release Date: 
2005-06-17
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Wayland, MA, USA, June 20, 2005. At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) in St. John's Newfoundland, Doug Nebert received OGC's seventh annual Kenneth G. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGC's vision of geographic information fully integrated into the world's information systems.

OGC announces Sensor Alert Service Interoperability Experiment

Release Date: 
2005-05-17
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Wayland, MA, 17 May, 2005 - The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) will soon begin an Interoperability Experiment to create a draft specification and implementations of a Sensor Alert Service (SAS). The OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Working Group has recognized that the SWE suite of standards and proposed standards requires an alert and notification mechanism to specify how alert or "alarm" conditions are defined, detected, and made available to interested users.

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