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August 25, 2011

The OGC and OpenMI Association to advance computer modelling standards

August 25, 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OpenMI Association announced that they recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in standards development and promotion of open standards related to computer modelling.Roger Moore, chairman of the OpenMI Association, said, “The OpenMI Association sees huge opportunities ahead if the linking of models of different processes as they run can be made simple and reliable.The OpenMI Association is therefore looking forward to the next step, which is working with the OGC to publish the OpenMI as an adopted OGC standard.The agreement between the OGC and the OpenMI Association exemplifies the trend among global standards organizations to form partnerships that make their standards more useful and useful to larger populations of users.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, sensors and mainstream IT.

August 24, 2011

The OGC Seeks Participants for Hydrologic Forecasting Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites participation in a Hydrologic Forecasting Interoperability Experiment (IE).The objectives for the Hydrologic Forecasting IE are to implement and test WaterML 2.0 and OGC services within a real-time forecasting context.The OGC members that are acting as initiators of the Interoperability Experiment are:US National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS)Deltares USA Inc.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low-overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity in which members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

August 15, 2011

The OGC seeks comment on City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) V1.1

15 August 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on Version 1.1 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).With this guidance, the Working Group developed the draft CityGML Version 1.1, a minor revision of the current CityGML version 1.0 that maintains backwards compatibility with version 1.0.The candidate CityGML Version 1.1 standard documents are available for review and comment at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/82.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.

August 1, 2011

OGC completes Water Information Concept Development Study

1 August 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has completed a Water Information Concept Development Study of the application of OGC Web Services standards in the domain of water information, specifically to investigate architectures and practices for cataloguing, discovering, and accessing selected water resources data from very large numbers of distributed datasets.Water resources, weather, and natural disasters are not constrained by local, regional or national boundaries.This OGC Water Information Concept Development Study was requested and sponsored by CUAHSI.The OGC Water Information Services Concept Development Study Engineering Report provides guidelines and recommendations for open information system architectures that support publishing, cataloguing discovering and accessing water observations data using open standards.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

July 29, 2011

The OGC Announces GEOSS Workshop XLIII: Sharing Climate Information and Knowledge

29 July 2011 – The GEOSS Workshop XLIII: Sharing Climate Information and Knowledge will be held 23 September 2011 at NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado.These interactions allow for leveraging software development and improved interoperability for Earth system monitoring and predictions.It is also crucial to long-term and interdisciplinary use of climate data to develop methods for collection, understanding, and preservation of data quality and other provenance metadata.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.

July 27, 2011

The OGC Announces GML 4.0 (Geography Markup Language) Workshop

27 July 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OGC GML Working Group (WG) invite interested parties to attend a one-day workshop on GML 4 on September 19th in Boulder, Colorado.Besides a number of pending change requests to be considered by the GML Working Group, GML 4.0 is also required to comply to the OGC’s new modular specification policy.The goal of the workshop is to get input and guidance from the GML user community for the development of GML 4.0.The current understanding is that GML 4.0 should not replace GML 3.2/3.3 and that existing community encodings with specific application support will likely continue to use GML 3.x.Key features of GML 4.0 that would justify developing and publishing a new version of GML.

July 26, 2011

The OGC Announces 3D Summit

26 July 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) 3D Information Management (3DIM) Working Group is hosting a second 3D Summit focused on the current impact and future opportunities for open standards to better enable 3D geospatial practices.Building on the success of the 2009 3D Summit hosted at MIT, this industry gathering is open to anyone interested in 3D applications and standards that enhance interoperability and integration.The 3D Summit is the best opportunity in 2011 to engage in 3D standards.All presentations will be posted to the new OGC 3D Summit YouTube Channel.Program organizers:Scott Simmons, CACI and OGC 3DIM ChairCarsten Roensdorf, Ordnance Survey, OGC CityGML Group Chair, OGC 3DIM co-Vice ChairBenjamin Hagedorn, Hasso Plattner Institut at the University of Potsdam, OGC 3DIM co-Vice ChairTim Case, Wright-Pierce and former OGC 3DIM ChairThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 415 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.

July 25, 2011

The OGC Announces Oceans/Meteorology/Hydrology Water Cycle Summit

25 July 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Hydrology Domain Working Group and the OGC Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group, both of which are Joint Working Groups of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the OGC, announced an Oceans/Meteorology/Hydrology Water Cycle Summit to be held on Wednesday 21 September 2011.The OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group is open to both member and non member participation and is intended to be a public forum for communication.A similar relationship exists between the WMOs Commission for Basic Services (CBS) and the OGC Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group.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.

July 22, 2011

OGC Requests Sensor Planning Server (SPS) 2.0 Reference Implementations

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests reference implementations of the OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS) 2.0 for use in compliance testing.The OGC Compliance Program (CITE) tests whether implementations of OGC standards comply with mandatory elements in the standards.SPS is part of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of standards.OGC Members with SPS server implementations (and test data if available) are invited to become SPS CITE Initiative sponsors by making these resources available for free for “black box” testing in SPS executable test suite development.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.