Zaffar brings rich and diverse board experience, a focus on Space and Spatial sector integration, and a passion to support the earth observation community.
OGC Welcomes new Principal Member, the Saudi Arabia General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information
GASGI joins OGC as a Principal Member to leverage the OGC’s collective geospatial expertise in building a healthy & competitive Geospatial Sector within KSA.
OGC Calling For Participation in its Water Quality Interoperability Experiment
Come advance the development of the WaterML 2.0 suite of standards in the area of water quality data, and help increase the effectiveness of related global development activities.
OGC seeking Public Comment on Deprecation of v1.0 of the Geographic Information – Well Known Text Representation of Coordinate Reference Systems Standard
As the geospatial community now relies upon CRSs that cannot be adequately defined using WKT CRS 1.0, the CRS Standards Working Group have recommended its deprecation.
Developers Invited to the July 2022 OGC API Vector Data Code Sprint
The July 2022 OGC API Virtual Code Sprint will further refine several OGC APIs as they move towards becoming official OGC Standards.
Results of OGC’s biggest Innovation Initiative in 2021, Testbed-17, are now available
The publicly available reports document the latest advances in Sensor Integration, Moving Features, Data-centric Security, Geospatial Cloud-Native Formats, and Interoperability Through APIs.
OGC CEO Dr. Nadine Alameh appointed to US National Geospatial Advisory Committee
NGAC provides advice and recommendations to the US Federal Government on US national geospatial policy and management issues, the development of the US NSDI, and more.
OGC seeks public comment on candidate OGC API – Tiles – Part 1: Core Standard
The OGC API – Tiles specification enables Web APIs to quickly and efficiently serve tiles of spatially referenced data or of maps with predefined content, extent, and resolution.
Developers are invited to the 2022 Joint OGC OSGeo ASF Code Sprint
The 2nd Open Source Software and Open Standards Code Sprint will advance multiple ASF and OSGeo projects supported by OGC Standards, including OGC API Standards. Sponsorship is still available.
OGC Publishes Best Practice for Earth Observation Application Packages
The document outlines the implementation, packaging, and deployment of cross-cloud EO Applications – A step forward for greater efficiency and bringing the ‘user to the data.’
