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April 8, 2010

OGC Forms Aviation Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) announces the formation of an Aviation Domain Working Group (DWG) (www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/aviationdwg ).The Aviation DWG will support the evaluation, advancement, operational use and validation of OGC standards within the Aviation domain.The Aviation DWG will also liaise, as needed, with various OGC working groups such as the Meteorology and Oceanography, Security, and Geography Markup Language (GML) Working Groups.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 6, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on Candidate GeoAPI 3.0 Interface Standard

Wayland, Mass., 1 April, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC GeoAPI 3.0 Application Programming Interface.In addition to producing this set of Java language interfaces, the OGC GeoAPI 3.0 Standards Working Group is producing a test suite through which developers implementing the Java interfaces can test their implementations.The candidate OGC GeoAPI 3.0 Interface Standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/66.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, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on SWE Common Service Model 2.0 Interface Standard

Wayland, Mass., 26 March, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Service Model Interface Standard Version 2.0.The SWE Service Model provides a common set of data types and defines a common set of interface mechanisms that can be used with other SWE interface standards.There are two SWE Common standards: The OGC SWE Common Service Model Interface Standard is applicable to all services that provide or require information from or about sensors.Both of the SWE Common standards are designed to be used with other existing OGC® Sensor Web Enablement standards such as OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) Encoding Standard, Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard and Sensor Planning Service (SPS) Interface Standard.The proposed OGC SWE Service Model 2.0 Standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/65 .

March 30, 2010

OGC Recommends Sensors Anywhere Book

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)® announces the availability of a new book SANY – an open service architecture for sensor networks, available free at http://sany-ip.eu/publications/3317 .The book provides an excellent introduction to OGCs Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards, which enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers and sensor data repositories discoverable, accessible and useable via the Web.OGC SWE standards were applied in SANY to three innovative risk management applications involving air pollution, marine risks and geohazards.These efforts yielded valuable reference implementations of sensor web Web services and geospatial processing Web services for decision support and data fusion.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

March 30, 2010

OGC to Host Haiti Toolkit Web Portal

The OGC agreed to host a web portal so committees who are working on the project can share information and documents quickly and efficiently.The portal will be based on the portal developed by the OGC for its own use.The OGC is already hosting a Web page (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/networks/haiti) that provides links to Earth images, maps and other geospatial data that are being used in Haiti earthquake disaster relief.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 385 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.

March 16, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on Sensor Planning Service Standard 2.0

Wayland, Mass., 15 March, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS) Interface Standard 2.0.The proposed OGC SPS 2.0 standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/64 .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 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 16, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on Modular, GML-based Web Coverage Service 2.0

Wayland, Mass., 15 March 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Web Coverage Services (WCS) Interface Standard Version 2.0.The WCS 2.0 draft has several significant enhancements over previous versions.WCS 2.0 is harmonized with the Geography Markup Language coverage model, leading to increased interoperability across OGC standards.The WCS standard defines a standard interface and operations that enable interoperable access to single or multi-dimensional geospatial coverages.The proposed OGC WCS 2.0 standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/61 .

March 16, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on SWE Common Data Model

Wayland, Mass., 15 March, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Common Encoding Standard Version 2.0.The SWE Common standard provides a common data encoding that is used throughout the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards suite.More precisely, the SWE Common model is used to define the representation, nature, structure and encoding of sensor related data.The proposed OGC SWE Common 2.0 standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/63 .OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 16, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on Table Joining Service Standard

Wayland, Mass., 15 March, 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Table Joining Service (TJS) Interface Standard.The proposed OGC TJS 1.0 standard and information on submitting comments on this document are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/62 .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 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.