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March 13, 2012

GEO Announces Call for Participation in GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership

8 March 2012 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 5th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-5).The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-5 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.AIP-5 places a priority on these areas:Increase GEOSS capacity to support several societal benefit areas (SBAs): Disasters, Health, Energy, Water and Agriculture.Deploy user management and authentication to support GEOSS Data-COREConduct research to be considered for the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)Responses to this CFP are requested by 11 April 2012.GEO is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

March 6, 2012

The OGC Names Dr. Jinsoo You Director of Asian Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that Dr. Jinsoo You has become the first Director of Asian Services for the OGC.He will promote awareness and adoption of OGC standards, help OGC members optimize their engagement in the OGC process, assist with recruitment, and represent OGC in dealing with OGC alliance partners.As the new director of Asian Services, Dr. You will focus on providing OGC services to members in Asia, identifying opportunities in the region for testbeds, pilot projects, and training sessions.He will work with Asian organizations to ensure that Asian requirements are addressed by the international standards of the OGC.As the Chair of OGC Korea Forum, Dr. You has focused on developing a geospatial services network in Korea based on international standards.

February 22, 2012

Aviation Community Adoption of Open Geospatial Standards Progresses

22 February 2012 – The global aviation community is moving forward on the adoption of an international framework of standards that enable communication in a net-centric, globally interoperable Air Transport System (ATS).The ninth OGC Web Services testbed (OWS-9) will have sponsorship from numerous organizations including the FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) and Eurocontrol.The Aviation Thread of OWS-9 builds on the Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) and aviation threads of OWS-6, OWS-7 and OWS-8.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 22, 2012

OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-9).The RFQ/CFP is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/86Responses are due by 5 pm EST on April 6, 2012.- Security and Services Interoperability (SSI): Investigate 5 main activities: Security Management, OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard Application Schema UGAS (UML to GML Application Schema) Updates, Web Services Façade, Reference Architecture Profiling, and Bulk Data Transfer.The RFQ/CFP includes details of these threads as well as details on participation eligibility, selection process and kickoff workshop information.OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part of the OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate standards into the OGC Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release.

February 21, 2012

OGC Announces Smart Grid Location Standards Ad Hoc Meeting

20 February 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites Smart Grid professionals to a Smart Grid Location Standards Meeting to be held on March 20 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas, USA.The ability to communicate geospatial information is seen as a crosscutting requirement in Smart Grid standards efforts worldwide.Many OGC members have a stake in the Smart Grid information technology market, the growth of which depends on the evolution of a standards infrastructure that includes location standards.This meeting (an ad hoc meeting in the OGCs formal meeting nomenclature) has been set up to assess the level of interest in the community to tackle open geospatial standards for the Smart Grid.The Smart Grid Location Standards Ad Hoc meeting is open to the public and admission is free, but Smart Grid Location Standards Ad Hoc Meeting attendees who dont plan to attend other OGC Technical Committee sessions must register via email at register [at] opengeospatial.org.

February 9, 2012

Synaptitude Consulting Joins the OGC to Advance Smart Grid Location Standards

The two organizations plan to leverage their strengths to enable Smart Grid stakeholders to make the best possible use of the Smart Grids ubiquitous location information.Synaptitude will help us bring these to a Smart Grid world that needs them.”“The Smart Grid by definition has geospatial information at its core,“ said Eric Nelson, Managing Principal at Synaptitude who leads their utilities work.The OGC Smart Grid Ad Hoc meeting is free, but registration is required (please contact via email: register at opengeospatial.org).Similarly, gas and water utilities will need open geospatial standards as their businesses become more complex and IT-intensive.However, the Smart Grid standards framework involves the participation of many different standards organizations, and much work remains to be done to ensure transparent communication of location and geospatial queries and responses across the Smart Grid universe.

January 31, 2012

OGC PUCK standard enables `plug and work` sensor networks

30 January 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC PUCK Protocol Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/puck ).PUCK addresses these challenges by defining a standard instrument protocol to retrieve metadata and other information from the device itself.With the approval by the OGC membership of the OGC PUCK Protocol Standard, and with the OGC Technical Committees PUCK Standards Working Group in place to provide future support, the PUCK standard is expected to be adopted by an even wider sensor community.To learn more about PUCK, please visit the following pages:MBARIs PUCK page – http://www.mbari.org/pw/PUCK reference design kit (detailed code that implements and uses PUCK) – http://www.mbari.org/pw/devtoolkit.htmSmart Ocean Sensor Consortium (SOSC) – http://sites.google.com/site/soscsite/To provide comments about the OGC PUCK Protocol Standard to the OGC PUCK Standards Working Group, go to http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cr.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

January 26, 2012

OGC Membership Approves Open GeoSMS Standard for Encoding Location in Short Message Service (SMS)

26 January 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the candidate OGC Open GeoSMS Standard as an official OGC standard.The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard provides developers with an extended Short Message Service (SMS) encoding and interface to facilitate communication of location content between different LBS (Location-Based Service) devices or applications.The lightweight and easy to implement Open GeoSMS Standard facilitates interoperability between mobile applications and the rapidly expanding world of geospatial applications and services that implement OGC standard interfaces, encodings and best practices.The Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) contributed Open GeoSMS as a candidate standard to the OGC.The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard can be found at: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/opengeosms.

January 23, 2012

PIXIA Becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that PIXIA Corporation has raised their OGC membership level to Principal Member.PIXIA has been an active member in the OGC since 2006, contributing to progress in several OGC Technical Committee working groups.The Consortium’s Principal Members exercise influence over the development, release and adoption of OGC standards through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee.About the OGCThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 430 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.