ARLINGTON, Virginia, USA, 14 May 2024: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the appointment of Peter Rabley as OGC’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The announcement was made last night at the Geospatial World Forum 2024 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
OGC Requests Public Comment on a Standardized Deformation Model and a Geodetic Data Grid Exchange Format
Two new specifications will provide a standardized way to exchange information used to calculate the changing positions of objects due to the movement and deformation of the Earth’s crust.
Steve Liang receives OGC’s 2022 Gardels Award
Congratulations to Steve Liang, awarded the 2022 Gardels Award for his work in sensor technologies for geospatial and pioneering web standards for publishing spatial data.
Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space: OGC Testbed-19 Calls For Participation
OGC Testbed-19 will pave the way towards new levels of interoperability across Geospatial in Space, Machine Learning, Geodatacubes, Analysis Ready Data, Agile Reference Architecture, and High Performance Computing.
OGC to form new GeoParquet Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter
GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format.
OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working Group
New OGC DWG will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the open Metaverse.
OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard
OGC compliance provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions, regardless of the vendor that created them.
OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group
New Standard Working Group will improve data interoperability of GeoDataCube for Analysis Ready Data. The public comment period for the GeoDataCubes SWG will end 19 January, 2023, and the page is available at https://www.ogc.org/node/4828.
Public Comment Requested on Draft Charter for new OGC Analysis Ready Data Standards Working Group
New OGC Working Group will develop a multi-part Standard for geospatial Analysis Ready Data products, which can be integrated and analyzed with minimal user effort.
OGC Testbed-19 Call For Sponsors: Interoperability and Collaboration from Oceans to Space
OGC Testbeds provide a unique opportunity for sponsors, together with the world’s leading geospatial IT experts, to tackle location data and processing challenges.