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April 12, 2006

OGC Calls for Participants in a Major OGC Web Services Testbed

The OGC Web Services Phase 3 (OWS-3) testbed advances OGC Web Services, the set of OpenGIS(R) Specifications for interfaces, schemas and encodings that comprise the interoperability framework for the emerging Spatial Web.- Sensor Web Enablement (SWE): Extending the SWE architecture for access to a wide variety of sensor types and for scalability to nationwide sensor deployment.- Geo-Decision Support Services (GeoDSS): Providing the distributed services necessary for a analyst to marshal distributed services from the spatial web to support decision making.GeoDSS includes Information Interoperability providing tools and techniques for making Geography Markup Language (GML) data compliant with application schemas available through WFS for high performance applications.Key will be development of a GeoDSS client for integrated access to numerous OGC services, control of service chaining, and for portrayal of geospatial information.

April 12, 2006

OGC and NIBS Announce Collaboration

Wayland, MA, January 31, 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the NIBS (National Institute of Building Sciences) IAI-NA (North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability) Council jointly announced their formal agreement to work together.Design technologies, such as CADD, and geospatial technologies need to efficiently transition between their separate environments.No one technology, not CAD, GIS, Imaging nor Data systems, can cover the whole spectrum in todays business environment.The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 270 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 12, 2006

OGC announces Web Processing Services Interoperability Experiment

percivallopengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, January 31, 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) invites additional participation in a Web Processing Service Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification that enables geoprocessing via the Internet..Natural Resources Canada is the lead initiator of the Interoperability Experiment.An Interoperability Experiment is a process led and executed by OGC members to achieve a narrowly defined technical objective that furthers the OGC Technical Baseline.Participants must be OGC members, but organizations that are not members can submit data through organizations that are members.The WPS Interoperability Experiment is described at http://www.opengeospatial.org/initiatives/?iid=148 .

April 12, 2006

Summit Set to Address Advancing the Sensor Web

Wayland, MA, January 31, 2005 – The third annual Emerging Technology Summits (ETS III) theme is Advancing the Sensor Web.The two day event is organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory SensorNET Program.ETS III will emphasize the successes and critical challenges that must be addressed to assure that sensor assets and sensor information can be easily discovered, associated and applied based on geographic location.Leaders from government, industry and academia will discuss current successes and define the challenges for improved discovery, access, integration and application of sensor information for enhanced monitoring and decision-making.Other government and industry speakers will address technology trends and challenges in harnessing sensor assets.

April 12, 2006

FIG/GSDI Early Registration Ends January 31

The FIG Working Week 2005 and the 8th Conference of GSDI will be held in Cairo, Egypt April 16-21, 2005.The theme of the first FIG/GSDI Conference is From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics.Early bird registration closes January 31, 2005.The technical and social tours include both the historical sites of Egypt and Cairo and professionally interesting visit to Egyptian agencies.OGCs Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces New Trademark Licensing Fee Structure

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces a new trademark licensing fee structure (see http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/testing ) that increases the value of membership for current members while making new membership more affordable.The OGC charges no fee for compliance testing software implementations of OGC specifications, and any organization, whether an OGC member or not, can test their implementations.If an organization wishes to advertise their products compliance with one or more OpenGIS(R) Specifications, the OGC does charge a trademark licensing fee.However, OGC members now pay 20\% less than before for each licensing fee.Therefore, members can reduce their overall trademark licensing fee costs by moving to a higher level of membership.

April 12, 2006

OGC Requests Information on Contextual State Description Services

BBursey [at] Great-CircleTech.comWayland, MA, November 10, 2004 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) has published a Request for Information (RFI) ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=requests&request=rfi20 ) to solicit input on technologies related to Contextual State Descriptions (CSD).In August, 2004, the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) issued a call for sponsors for an OGC Web Services 3 (OWS-3) interoperability initiative, a multi-threaded test bed activity to advance OGCs open framework for interoperability in the geospatial industry.CSD is a potential new element of SWE, and it is also relevant to chaining of image processing services and other services in web services environments for geospatial processing.The contents of the OWS-3 request for quotations (RFQ) will be based in part on the RFI response to the CSD RFI.OGCs Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Demonstrates Decision Support Service Chaining

Wayland, MA, November 3, 2004 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) held a successful OGC Web Services 2 (OWS-2) Natural Resources Demo on September 2nd.OWS-2 threads include Information Interoperability, Common Architecture, Image Handling for Decision Support, Compliance & Interoperability Testing, and Open Location Services (OpenLS).Myra Bambacus, Program Manager, NASAs Geospatial Interoperability Office, said, The Natural Resources Demo revealed how open interfaces improve Image Handling for Decision Support.Now, these image processing results can be integrated into applications of National Priority to support critical decision making processes.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

ISO/TC211 Approves OGC Web Map Service as International Standard

Wayland, MA, November 1, 2004 – ISO has approved an International Standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(TM)) with input from the ISO technical committee responsible for the ISO geographic information: ISO/TC211 Geographic Information/Geomatics.The OpenGIS(R) Web Map Service (WMS) Interface Specification was approved by a ballot of the national bodies that are members of ISO.Software complying to the specification enables automatic overlay, in ordinary web browsers, of map images obtained from multiple map servers, regardless of map scale, projection, earth coordinate system, storage format, or vendor solution.ISO is a de jure standards organization in which appointed representatives from the worlds nations develop and adjudicate international standards.ISO19125-1:2004 (Geographic information – Simple Feature Access – Part 1: Common Architecture) and ISO 19125-2:2004 (Geographic information – Simple feature access – Part 2: SQL Option) were published earlier this year.