OGC Announces GALEON Interoperability Experiment.WAYLAND, Mass. -- 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) has announced that July 24, 2005 will be the kickoff date for an OGC Interoperability Experiment to support open access to atmospheric and oceanographic modeling and simulation outputs. The GALEON (Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean NetCDF) Interoperability Experiment will implement a geo-interface to netCDF datasets via the OpenGIS(R) Web Coverage Server (WCS 1.0) protocol specification. The interface will provide interoperability among netCDF, OPeNDAP, ADDE ADDE Addere (Latin: to add; medicine) ADDE Association of Dental Dealers in Europe ADDE Application Development for the Distributed Enterprise ADDE Assistant District Director for Examinations ADDE Aeronautical Digital Data Environment , and THREDDS THREDDS Thematic Real-Time Environmental Distributed Data Services client/server and catalog protocols. The initiators of the Interoperability Experiment are: Unidata/UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1960 by research institutions with doctoral programs in the atmospheric and related sciences. ), IMAA-CNR (Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the Italian National Research Council), George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. , and the NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), ) Geospatial Interoperability Office. Other OGC members are encouraged to participate in or sign on as observers for this Interoperability Experiment. Organizations wishing to participate and that can meet the Requirements for Participation must notify the OGC before July 31 of their desire to participate. Requirements are that a participant must be or must become an OGC Member and that the organization must review and sign a Participant Agreement. Contact George Percivall at gpercivall@opengeospatial.org for further details. OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 270 companies, government agencies 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 complex 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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