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March 5, 2010

OGC announces Earth Observation Profile for Web-based Catalogue Services

Wayland, Mass., 5 March 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Catalogue Services Standard Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products, and also the related Geography Markup Language (GML) Application Schema for EO Products.The CS-W ebRIM EO standard describes a set of interfaces, bindings and encodings to be implemented in catalog servers so that data providers can publish descriptive information (metadata) about Earth Observation data.The CS-W ebRIM EO standard was developed based on requirements from the European Space Agency and partners as part of the Heterogeneous Missions Accessibility project.The CS-W ebRIM EO standard and the GML Application Schema for EO products are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat2eoext4ebrim.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 17, 2010

OGC and bSA Release Report on AEC Interoperability Testbed

Wayland, Mass., 17 February 2010 – The buildingSMART allianceTM (bSa) and the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) have released a new report, Summary of the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner Operator Phase 1 (AECOO-1) Joint Testbed.The AECOO-1 Testbed is an important first step toward achieving this goal, which is one that the OGC, bSa, our sponsors and many others in the industry also support.Jointly led by the bSa and the OGC, the AECOO-1 Testbed was conducted in the OGC Interoperability Program.All results were submitted to the bSa for consideration as candidate specifications and best practices under the National Building Information Model StandardTM (NBIMS) Rules of Governance.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 15, 2010

GSDI 12 Conference Announcement and Call for Papers and Workshops

Needham, Mass., 15 February 2010 – The GSDI 12 World Conference will take place in the garden city of Singapore from 19 to 22 October 2010.The Partners in organizing this conference include the GSDI Association (www.gsdi.org/), Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia & the Pacific (www.sbsm.gov.cn/pcgiap/index.htm) (PCGIAP) and Singapore Land Authority (www.sla.gov.sg/htm/hom/index.htm) (SLA).The theme for GSDI 12 is Realising Spatially Enabled Societies.Please also visit the GSDI 12 conference website to review information on speakers, the full conference program, and registration and accommodations in Singapore.The GSDI Association is an inclusive group of organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals from around the world.

February 1, 2010

GEO Announces Call for Participation in GEOSS Pilot Phase 3

Wayland, Mass., 1 February 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 3 of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) issued by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).AIP-3 will build on previous project phases and is coordinated with other GEO Tasks.Specific areas of emphasis for AIP-3 include increasing the capacity for GEOSS to support Societal Benefit Areas; building on the AIP Service Architecture and the GEOSS Common Infrastructure; and increasing availability of data in GEOSS in accordance with the GEOSS Data Sharing Guidelines.AIP-3 will be conducted in 2010 with support to the Earth Observation Summit, November 2010.GEO is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

February 1, 2010

OGC and World Meteorological Organization to Collaborate on Meteorology Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the development and use of geospatial standards.OGC benefits from the WMOs application of OGCs open standards and direct WMO community involvement in OGC standards process.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)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.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.

January 25, 2010

OGC Adopts Earth Observation Profile for Web-based Catalogue Services

Wayland, Mass., 21 January 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Earth Observation (EO) Application Profile for the OGC Catalogue Services – Web (CSW) Specification 2.0.2.The EO-CSW standard describes a set of interfaces, bindings and encodings that can be implemented in catalog servers that data providers will use to publish collections of descriptive information (metadata) about Earth Observation data and services.Developers can also implement this standard as part of Web clients that enable data users and their applications to very efficiently search and exploit these collections of Earth Observation data and services.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.

January 19, 2010

OGC and iEMSs to Cooperate on Standards for Environmental Modeling

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the International Environmental Modeling & Software Society (iEMSs) Secretariat have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in standards development, education and outreach to enable and promote the use of interoperable Web based geospatial technologies in environmental modeling and software tools.About iEMSsThe iEMSs (pronounced eye-em-es) (http://www.iemss.org) is a not-for-profit organization uniting people and organizations dealing with environmental modeling, software and related topics.The iEMSs seeks to develop and use environmental modeling and software tools to advance science and improve decision making with respect to resource and environmental issues.This places an emphasis on interdisciplinary and the development of generic frameworks and methodologies which integrate environmental models and software tools.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 18, 2010

OGC Hosts Indoor Location and Floor Plan Standards Forum

Such standards are needed for applications such as emergency management (EM), outdoor/indoor navigation, and augmented reality.A major focus was the Open Floor Plan Display Project, which addresses firefighters urgent need for simple floor plans of burning buildings.Presenters and attendees explored the OGC CityGML Encoding Standard; IndoorML; indoor spatial awareness research; proposed Interior Location Extensions to the IETFs proposed PIDF-LO standard; and the Open Floor Plan Display Project of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and the Golden Gate Safety Network.About the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)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.

January 6, 2010

OGC seeks input on next version of CityGML

Wayland, Mass., 6 January 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is seeking broad input on enhancements and changes for a revision of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml).CityGML is implemented as an application schema of the OGC Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) Encoding Standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml), an international standard for spatial data exchange and encoding approved by the OGC and ISO.The current version 1.0 of CityGML was adopted as an official OGC Standard in August 2008 and has come to wide use since then.The OGC Technical Committee seeks input from the wider community in the form of change requests, proposed additions and suggestions for the future development of CityGML.The next version of CityGML will be a minor revision of the standard to version 1.1.