Monday, February 25th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted “Semantic annotations in OGC standards” as an OGC Best Practice.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 6th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-6). AIP-6 aims to increase the use of GEOSS resources by end-users. An end-user might be, for example, a farmer in a developing nation whose cell phone
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the formation of the Moving Features Standards Working Group (Moving Features SWG). “Moving features” data describes such things as vehicles and pedestrians.
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has adopted the OGC CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Geo4NIEM Project. The Geo4NIEM Initiative will result in recommendations to enhance the geospatial capabilities within the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). Sponsors have identified specific Information Exchange Packages (IEPs) from Department
Friday, February 8th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on an OGC discussion paper, netCDF Uncertainty Conventions (netCDF-U) 1.0. This discussion paper proposes a set of conventions for managing uncertainty information within the netCDF classic (also known as netCDF3) data model and format.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC MilOps Geospatial Interoperability Experiment (MOGIE). Command and Control (C2) Core has been an emerging data exchange capability within Department of Defense over the past three years. DoD CIO is now moving toward adopting the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). C2 Core, which is
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
At the January meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Redlands, California, Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, was awarded the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Distinguished Member Award.
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OWS (OGC Web Services) Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document candidate standards.
Monday, January 14th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted the OGC Wide Area Motion Imagery Best Practices Document (WAMI BP) as an official OGC Best Practice. The OGC WAMI Best Practices Document recommends a set of Web service interfaces for the dissemination of Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) products. It describes a performance centric, scalable grammar and schema
