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November 1, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on Sensor Observation Service Candidate Standard

November 01, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Standard Version 2.0.The SOS candidate interface standard is designed to provide access to sensor observations, sensor descriptions, and digital representations of observed features in an interoperable and standardized way.The OGC Sensor Observation Service revision incorporates several enhancements.The proposed OGC SOS 2.0 standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/73.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

October 12, 2010

OGC Standards Officially Endorsed by Federal Geographic Data Committee

The US Federal Geographic Data Committee (http://www.fgdc.gov) (FGDC) Steering Committee has officially endorsed a group of OGC standards along with other standards developed externally to FGDC.The Steering Committee endorsed standards (http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/fgdc-endorsed-external-standards/index_html) from the OGC, ISO TC211 and ANSI (INCITS L1) standards development organizations.We encourage government agencies to include these standards, as well as FGDCs data standards, in the language of software and data procurement documents.The FGDC Standards Working Group will revisit the list every year as part of its standards life-cycle management activities.The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis.

October 4, 2010

Ingo Simonis receives OGCs Gardels Award

On September 22, in Toulouse, France at the OGCs 12th annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award Ceremony, OGC director Philippe Delclaux of EADS/Astrium presented the Gardels Award to Ingo Simonis.The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGCs vision of geographic information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.The Gardels Award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, a founding director of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.The Gardels award has become the most prestigious award in the geospatial technology world.The community from which the selection is made comprises hundreds of the worlds leading geospatial information technology experts.

September 29, 2010

OGC and IJIS Institute to collaborate

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the IJIS Institute have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on efforts to support information sharing and interoperability related to public safety, justice and homeland security.According to Paul Wormeli, executive director of the IJIS Institute, The future of information sharing, particularly in public safety, includes a reliance on standards for using geospatial and location-based data.About the IJIS InstituteThe IJIS Institute (http://www.ijis.org/), a nonprofit organization, unites the private and public sectors to improve critical information sharing for those who protect and serve our communities.The IJIS Institute provides training, technology assistance, national scope issue management, and program management services to help government fully realize the power of information sharing.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

September 20, 2010

OGC Calls for Participation in FAA SAA Information Dissemination Pilot

The FAA SAA Dissemination Pilot will extend the SAA SWIM Services to enable the dissemination of SAA information (including updates and schedule changes) to National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders and other external users via services that implement OGC Web Services (OWS) standards.In support of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), the FAA SWIM program seeks to achieve systems interoperability and information management for diverse Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems using Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).The FAA SWIM capabilities include supporting the exchange of SAA information between operational ATM systems.Navin Vembar, AIM Modernization Segment 2 Program Manager, FAA notes The FAA SAA Dissemination pilot is an opportunity to work closely with industry to demonstrate that OGC Web Services and international standards facilitate the FAAs efforts to communicate with our stakeholders in an automated manner.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

September 9, 2010

OGC Announces Meeting for Potential European Sponsors of 2011 OWS-8 Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently concluded the OGC Web Services, Phase 7 (OWS-7) Testbed initiative (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-7).The OGC has issued a call for sponsors for the upcoming OGC Web Services, Phase 8 (OWS-8) Testbed.OGC staff and meeting participants will review OGC standards, discuss OWS-7 results and document OWS-8 requirements.This meeting is part of the OGC Technical Committee Meeting (http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1009tc) to be held 20-24 September at this location.The OGC is also seeking partnerships with other Standards Development Organizations to develop sponsorship of the OWS-8 Testbed.

September 7, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Climate and Forecast Data Encoding Standards

September 7, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) members are seeking comments on OGC candidate standards Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard, and NetCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard – NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format.The NetCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists: namely, as sets of related arrays.This is the initial step in a longer-term plan for establishing CF-netCDF as an OGC standard for binary encoding.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 31, 2010

OGC Calls for Participation in the OWS Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) calls for participation in the OGC Web Services (OWS) Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (IE) to advance best practice for implementing standards on federated security in transactions involving geospatial data and services.A ‘birds of a feather’ informal discussion meeting will take place during the week of the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Toulouse, France, 20-23 September 2010.To finalize this activity a best practice report will be presented at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Sydney, Australia, 29 November – 3 December 2010.The OGC contact person for this interoperability experiment is Luis Bermudez lbermudez [at] opengeospatial.org.An OGC Interoperability Experiment is a brief, low-overhead, formally structured OGC-led activity, where members achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.

August 25, 2010

Luis Bermudez Joins OGC as Director, Interoperability Certification

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that Dr. Luis E. Bermudez has been appointed Director of Interoperability Certification for the Consortium.In his new position, Dr. Bermudez will manage the OGC Certification Program, lead plugfest activities, and support OGC testbeds, pilots and interoperability experiments designed to develop, test and validate specifications for geospatial information.Dr. Bermudez has done pioneering work in geospatial interoperability including ontologies and geospatial metadata frameworks used in environmental observatories.Luis has been a valued member of the OGC community, said George Percivall, OGCs Chief Architect and Executive Director of the Interoperability Program.He has led a major ocean observing system interoperability program and was the technical lead of OGCs Ocean Sciences Interoperability Experiment.