OGC(R) Web Services for GEOSS Demonstrated at Workshop in China.WAYLAND, Mass. -- Interoperable OGC Web Services (OWS) implemented as part of the Global Earth Observing System The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans of the Earth. of Systems (GEOSS GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems (EPA) ) architecture were demonstrated on 22-23 May 2006 at the 2006 International Symposium on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites (FIEOS'06) in Beijing, China. This was the third in a series of GEOSS Architecture workshops organized by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. . The workshop, "The User and GEOSS Architecture III", focused on wind energy and natural resource management. Dr. Jinsoo You and Dr. Konstantin Nurutdinov of the Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a leading research and teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It is a member of the Russell Group, and of Universitas 21, an international network of research-led universities. , UK organized the demonstration, which showed the role of the OGC's standards in the open architecture that underpins the GEOSS "system of systems." Eighteen organizations from six countries participated in the demonstration. The demonstration showed publishing, discovery, and access of complex 4D wind data and online meteorological processing services using existing OGC standards as highlighted in the GEOSS 10 Year Implementation Plan. Charlotte Hasager of the Wind Energy Department at Denmark's Risoe National Laboratory said, "Use of distributed Web services is clearly a very good option to be further exploited in wind energy. In China the aim to use satellite imagery and database information for wind resource mapping is higher than anywhere else I have seen. So it was a very good place to have this demonstration indeed." Chao Wang, China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS RSGS Royal Scottish Geographical Society RSGS Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station RSGS Regional Signal Group, SHAPE ); Dr. Jay Pearlman, Chair of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observations (CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. ); and Prof. Leung Tsang, executive vice president of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS GRSS Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE) ) moderated. Prof. Mike Jackson, director of the Centre for Geospatial Science, said, "The demonstration was a great example of what can be achieved when laboratories around the world collaborate through adoption of OGC interoperability standards." The Open Geospatial Consortium The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization. In the OGC, more than 330 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in an open consensus process encouraging development and , Inc. (OGC) is an international industry consortium of more than 310 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS(R) Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org. |
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