[GSDI Technical] OGC Releases OWS-6 Interoperability Testbed Videos

[Kate Lance]

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Wayland, MA, July 16, 2009. The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC®) announces the release of on-line videos
(http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows6/index.html) that document
the recent final interoperability demonstration of the OGC Web
Services Initiative, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed. OWS-6 addressed
activities organized around geospatial interoperability requirements
in the following areas:

1) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
2) Geo Processing Workflow (GPW)
3) Decision Support Services (DSS)
4) Aeronautical Information Management (AIM)
5) Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE).

The SWE, GPW and DSS portions of the demo show how standards-enabled
interoperability supports coordinated responses to a hypothetical
disaster scenario involving an airport hostage crisis and fire
explosion. The AIM demonstration showed the use of web services for
flight navigation, taking into account weather, diversions, and other
event notifications.

The videos are complemented by a series of OGC Engineering Reports
that define in more detail the web services interoperability
capability and architecture advanced for each of the above mentioned
focus areas. Most of these reports will be available on the OGC public
web site within the next few weeks.

OWS-6 sponsors included:


-  US Dept. of Defense Joint Program Executive Office - Chemical and
  Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) Software Support Activity (SSA)
-  Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) GeoConnections
-  US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
-  EUROCONTROL - European Organization for the Safety of Air
  Navigation
-  EADS N.V. Defence and Communications Systems (DCS)
-  US Geological Survey (USGS)
-  BAE Systems
-  ERDAS, Inc.
-  Lockheed Martin Corporation


For more information about OWS-6, see the initial announcement at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/50. OGC and
prospective sponsors are planning the next OGC Web Services
Initiative, OWS-7, which is expected to begin in the fall and end next
summer (details to be announced).

OGC's Interoperability Program is a global, hands-on and collaborative
prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver
proven candidate standards. In OGC's Interoperability Initiatives,
international teams of technology providers work together to solve
specific geo-processing interoperability problems posed by the 
initiative's sponsoring organizations.

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 385 companies,
government agencies, research organizations, and universities
participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available
geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable
solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based
services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology
developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and
useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
Visit the OGC homepage at  http://www.opengeospatial.org/.

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For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach at opengeospatial.org


      
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