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

Release Date: 
2 June 2010
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Wayland, MA, June 2, 2010. 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.

Principal Members evaluate and provide guidance on market direction and Consortium focus, and have authority over the development, release and adoption of OGC standards through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee (PC).

The OGC Seeks Participants for Surface Water Interoperability Experiment

Release Date: 
13 May 2010
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Wayland, Massachusetts, May 13, 2010.  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 IE will also contribute to the development of a hydrology domain feature model and vocabularies, which are essential for interoperability within the hydrology domain.

Lance McKee Joins OGC as Senior Staff Writer

Release Date: 
6 May 2010
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Wayland, MA, USA, 6 May 2010. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Lance McKee has been appointed as a Senior Staff Writer for the Consortium.

As part of the OGC's Marketing and Communications team, Lance is responsible for communicating the OGC message through a variety of public relations and outreach activities in markets important to the OGC membership and the wider industry.

Nadine Alameh Joins OGC as Director, Interoperability Programs

Release Date: 
6 May 2010
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Wayland, MA, USA, 6 May 2010.  The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that Dr. Nadine Alameh has been appointed as a Director, Interoperability Programs for the Consortium. In her new position, Nadine plans and manages OGC Interoperability Initiatives, which include testbeds, pilots and interoperability experiments designed to develop, test and validate specifications in support of developing standards for geospatial information.

OGC Standards a topic at EGU General Assembly

Release Date: 
26 April 2010
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Wayland, Mass., April 26, 2010. 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.

OGC Calls for Industry Input on multi-INT Decision Fusion

Release Date: 
21 April 2010
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Wayland, MA, April 21, 2010.  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.

OGC Seeks Comments on SWE Common Service Model 2.0 Interface Standard

Release Date: 
26 March 2010
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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.

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