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April 22, 2011

The OGC Seeks Participants for 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is launching a 3D Portrayal Interoperability Experiment (IE) on 26 May 2011 to advance best practice for implementing standards for publishing and streaming 3D geospatial assets related to urban planning and landscape visualization.The 3D Portrayal IE will focus on the use of recently developed draft 3D portrayal service interface specifications within the context of the OGC standards baselines.These are the Web 3D Service (W3DS), which streams geospatial 3D models using interactive web formats, and the Web View Service (WVS), which generates images of projective views on massive, complex 3D worlds.The IE will clarify the specifics of 3D portrayal services; provide best practices and guidelines for their implementation, integration, and usage; and directly support current standardization efforts.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a rapid, low-overhead, formally structured OGC-facilitated activity, where members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.

April 20, 2011

OGC Web Feature Service Standard accepted as ISO Standard

April 20, 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has approved the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) Interface standard as an International Standard.This approval was the result of joint activity in the ISO Technical Committee: ISO/TC211 Geographic Information/Geomatics.Several other standards have received joint approval, including: ISO19125-1:2004 (Geographic information – Simple Feature Access – Part 1: Common Architecture); ISO 19125-2:2004 (Geographic information – Simple feature access – Part 2: SQL Option); ISO 19128 Web Map Service (WMS) and ISO 19136 (Geographic information – Geography Markup Language (GML).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.

April 19, 2011

OGC announces netCDF Standard for Communicating Multidimensional Data

Wayland, Massachusetts, 19 April 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the OGC Network Common Data Form (netCDF) Core Encoding Standard, and netCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard – netCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format as official OGC standards.The netCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists, specifically, as sets of related arrays.UCAR and other OGC members introduced netCDF into the OGC as a candidate OGC standard to encourage broader international use and greater interoperability among clients and servers interchanging data in binary form.Among other benefits, this will make the large collections of environmental netCDF data more readily accessible and usable by non-experts.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 11, 2011

OGC announces Indoor Navigation Discussion Paper

11 April 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on an OGC discussion paper, Requirements and Space-Event Modeling for Indoor Navigation.Just as digital technologies such as GPS and Web mapping mediate our awareness of outdoor space, new indoor location and sensor technologies are beginning to mediate our awareness of indoor space.The discussion paper presents a model for indoor navigation that simultaneously addresses route planning, multiple localization methods, navigation contexts, and different locomotion types.Makers of phones and apps have everything else in place for an explosion of indoor location services.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

April 7, 2011

GEO Announces Call for Participation in GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership

7 April 2011 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 4th phase of the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-4).The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-4 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.AIP-4 will improve access to GEOSS datasets that support the “Critical Earth Observation Priorities” that have been identified by the GEO User Interface Committee.AIP-4 aims to:Increase on-line access to Critical Earth Observation Priorities Data Sources;Ensure datasets are discoverable through the GEOSS Common Infrastructure; andDemonstrate effectiveness of general and specialized software tools for using data.GEO is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

April 5, 2011

OGC Announces International Earth Observation Satellite Tasking Standard

5 April 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has approved the Sensor Planning Service (SPS) Interface Standard 2.0 Earth Observation Satellite Tasking Extension standard as an official OGC standard.The SPS 2.0 Earth Observation Satellite Tasking Extension Standard specifies extensions to the OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS) 2.0 Interface Standard.SPS is one of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/markets-technologies/swe) suite of standards.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.

March 31, 2011

OGC and OSCRE Work Together to Advance Real Estate Standards across the Globe

March 31, 2011 – OSCRE (the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate) today announced that they have updated their Memorandum of Understanding with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to reflect OSCRE’s new global focus following last year’s merger between PISCES and OSCRE Americas.We expect enormous value for members of OSCRE and OGC from this working relationship, particularly as we are now able to bring significant international expertise to the real estate standards process.OSCRE seeks to enable the real estate industry to work more effectively through the use of cost-effective, standardized and automated electronic information exchange.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.

March 30, 2011

GE Energy Invests as Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that GE Energy has upgraded its OGC membership from Technical Member to the Principal Member level.GE Energy has been involved with the Technical Committee of the OGC since it acquired the SmallworldTM business in September 2000.Since then GE Energy has ensured its GIS software is certified as compliant with OGC standards.The businesses that comprise GE Energy—GE Power & Water, GE Energy Services and GE Oil & Gas—work together to provide integrated product and service solutions in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 28, 2011

OGC Forms International Water Information Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of an OGC WaterML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG).OGC WaterML 2.0 will support encoding of hydrological and hydrogeological observation data in a variety of exchange scenarios.WaterML 2.0 was developed by a group of hydrology and water professionals.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 useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.