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June 28, 2010

GIS.FCU Takes Principal Membership in the OGC(R)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) announced that the GIS Research Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (GIS.FCU) has become a Principal Member of the OGC.Principal Members evaluate and provide guidance on market direction and Consortium focus, and have oversight over the development, release and adoption of OGC standards through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee (PC).GIS.FCU has been an active participant in the OGC since 2003 and has contributed to the development of OGC standards, interoperability initiatives and compliance tests.By the terms of the companys Principal Membership memorandum of understanding with the OGC, GIS.FCU will provide significant technical resources to support the OGCs Compliance Testing and Certification Program.About GIS.FCUThe GIS Research Center at Feng Chia University is an important domestic research institute in Taiwan that links geographic information resource systems with global positioning systems and satellite remote sensing technologies.

June 16, 2010

OGC and AGISEE begin activities in South-East Europe

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) and AGISEE, the Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (http://www.agisee.org) announced that they have established a cooperative relationship to promote the importance of open standards in the development of spatial data infrastructures and raise the awareness of interoperability in South-East Europe.Interested people are also invited to a workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructures on 16 June 2010 in Nessebar, Bulgaria, as part of the International Conference forCartography and GIS (ICCG3) (http://www.cartography-gis.com ).The Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (AGISEE) (http://www.opengeospatial.org ) promotes geospatial data use and Spatial Data Infrastructures in South-East Europe.AGISEE is a non-for-profit organization which supports the needs of all groups in South-East Europe for access to, sharing and use of geospatial information (GI).OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

June 2, 2010

lat/lon Takes Principal Membership in the OGC(R)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ( http://www.opengeospatial.org ) announced that lat/lon ( http://www.lat-lon.de ) has become a Principal Member of the OGC.lat/lon has been active participant in the OGC since the companys founding and has contributed to the development of numerous OGC standards and compliance tests.By the terms of the companys Principal Membership memorandum of understanding with the OGC, lat/lon will provide significant resources to support the OGCs Compliance Testing and Certification Program.Their success is also a reflection of how Germany and Europe have committed to interoperability based on open standards.lat/lon is the main developer of the deegree project ( http://deegree.org/ ), the most substantial implementation of OGC and ISO standards in the field of open software.

May 13, 2010

The OGC Seeks Participants for Surface Water Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will launch a Hydrology Surface Water Interoperability Experiment (IE) on 15 June, 2010.The OGC is requesting participation by organizations that are interested in sharing surface water data.The Surface Water IE will advance the development of WaterML 2.0 and test its use with various OGC service standards.The experiment will develop and test WaterML 2.0 to insure that three typical hydrological use case scenarios are supported:- Surface water data exchange across national and organizational jurisdictions- Surface water flow data discovery for forecast modeling- Quantifying the flow of surface water to coastal systemsThe IE will also test implementations of OGC services and clients that are required to support these objectives.The results of the IE will be documented in OGC engineering reports and change requests to existing OGC standards.

May 6, 2010

Lance McKee Joins OGC as Senior Staff Writer

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Lance McKee has been appointed as a Senior Staff Writer for the Consortium.Lance McKee is a writer and corporate communications consultant.He continued to serve the OGC as a consultant until his recent appointment as Senior Staff Writer.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.Editors:See http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/lmckee for a photo of Lance McKee.

May 6, 2010

Nadine Alameh Joins OGC as Director, Interoperability Programs

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Dr. Nadine Alameh has been appointed as a Director, Interoperability Programs for the Consortium.Dr. Alameh is already leading activities in the OGC Interoperability Program.In the OGC Web Services (OWS-7) Interoperability Initiative she is managing the aviation developments using the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Information Exchange Model (WXXM) in an OGC Web Services environment.We are fortunate indeed to have her on staff now to play a key role in advancing OGC Interoperability Initiatives.Most recently, Dr. Alameh founded a small business focused on promoting and incorporating geospatial interoperability within her clients enterprise architectures.

May 4, 2010

Steven Ramage joins Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has appointed Steven Ramage as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications.Over the last 15 years, Steven has worked in a variety of organisations in the geospatial industry including Oceonics (now part of Fugro), Navteq (now part of Nokia) and most recently 1Spatial.Steven Ramage added, There is a massive opportunity for geospatial data, applications and services to be widely accepted in everyday use.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 390 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.

April 27, 2010

OGC Standards a topic at EGU General Assembly

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2010 will bring more than 8,000 geoscientists from all over the world to Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010.More than 25\% of member organizations in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) represent the geosciences or the academic community, and thus OGC standards that support management and sharing of scientific data will be a topic of interest at the Assembly.The OGC® is an international consortium of over 390 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OpenGIS® 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 21, 2010

OGC Calls for Industry Input on multi-INT Decision Fusion

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit industry input into the second phase of a Fusion Standards Study.Phase 2 of the study focuses on Decision Fusion.Input from the RFI will influence planning for the OGC Web Services, Phase 8 (OWS-8) Testbed.OGC also seeks to establish alliances with other Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) having standards work relevant to fusion.The RFI contains a review of requirements and existing standards for decision fusion in several domains.