Geography Markup Language (GML) DWG
Chair(s):
Portele, Clemens (interactive instruments GmbH) - Group Chair
Group Description:
Chair: Clemens Portele, Interactive Instruments
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Architecture WG
The Architecture WG considers overarching architectural issues that are germane to multiple OpenGIS(r) specifications, including mechanisms for describing and invoking services in a heterogeneous distributed network. Chair: Doug Nebert (ddnebert [at] usgs.gov), Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).
Sensor Web Enablement DWG
Chair(s):
Botts, Mike (Botts Innovative Research) - Group Chair,
Liang, Steve (University of Calgary) - Group Chair
Earth Observation WG
The Earth Observation WG addresses interoperability issues of particular concern to members working in the area of Earth Observation. The EO WG is in the process of benig merged with the NRE WG
Visit http://lennier.gsfc.nasa.gov/eosig/ for additional information.
Technical Committee
Chair(s):
Simmons, Scott (Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.)
Group Description:
The OGC membership process is operationally organized into groups and subgroups, each group having a specified role and level of responsibility. There are three major groups, called Committees: The Technical, the Planning and the Strategic Management Advisory Committees.
The Technical Committee is responsible for all aspects of the formal consensus OGC specification process. This includes:
OWS Common RWG
The following is the official slate of members for the OWS Common 1.2**
RWG.
- Arliss Whiteside (BAE). Chair of the RWG
- Rüdiger Gartmann (con terra). Vice Chair of the RWG
- Peter Vretanos (CubeWerx)
- Peter Schut (NR Canada/Geoconnections)
- Stan Tillman (Intergraph)
- Andreas Matheus (University of the ...
Information Communities and Semantics WG
The Information Communities and Semantics WG addresses issues related to services that might be developed to help users manage semantic differences in spatial data content and metadata.
Coordinate Reference System DWG
Chair(s):
Hedley, Mark (UK Met Office) - Vice Chair,
Ryden, Keith (Esri) - Vice Chair
Group Description:
The Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Domain Working Group develops strategies for encoding of earth coordinate reference systems and transformations between coordinate reference systems. Also addresses units of measure. The group has worked consistanty on the joint OGC-ISO Document 19111 - Spatial Referencing by Coordinates and on ISO 19162 Well Known Text for Coordinate Reference Systems.
University DWG
Chair(s):
Chou, Tien-Yin (Feng Chia University) - Group Chair,
Kmoch, Alexander (University of Tartu) - Group Chair,
Liang, Steve (University of Calgary) - Group Chair
Group Description:
Mission
The mission of the University Domain Working Group (UDWG) will be to coordinate the common interests of OGC academic and research members in the following areas:
Feature WG
This project is now dormant.
The Feature WG develops consensus on geospatial feature geometry, identity, and relationships.
