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Subject: Fw: [Tc] European Agencies Announce Workshop on Use of OGC Standards in Meteorology
Given that weather is an integral component of EM and Alerting, thought this might be of interest. Carl Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:13 AM Subject: [Tc] European Agencies Announce Workshop on Use of OGC Standards in Meteorology > PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > For information about this announcement, contact: > > Frédéric Guillaud > Meteo-France > DSI/DEV > 42 avenue Gaspard > Coriolis > 31057 Toulouse > France > tel : (+33) 5 6107 8118 > frederic.guillaud@meteo.fr > > or > > Athina Trakas > Director, Business Development, Europe > Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) > Heerstrasse 162 > Bonn 53111 > Germany > +49 228 693733 > atrakas@opengeospatial.org > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Wayland, MA., USA, 9 October 2009. Meteo France, the UK Met Office, > and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) > jointly announce that the 2nd Workshop on the Use of GIS/OGC Standards > in Meteorology will be held at the Conference International Centre at > Meteo-France, Toulouse, France, from 23-25 November 2009. See > http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/gis-ogc/ for details. > > The aims of this workshop are to review applications of OGC and other > standard Web services, encodings, and analytical methodologies across > the meteorology community; discuss relationships between the World > Meteorological Organization (WMO) and OGC; and define a roadmap for > further activities of the OGC Meteorology & Oceanography Domain > Working Group. This working group provides an open forum on > meteorological and oceanographic systems interoperability and a formal > process for developing international consensus standards that may be > submitted to the WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) for adoption. > > > The workshop will consist of presentations, open discussions, working > groups and plenary sessions. The deadline for registering is 12 > November 2009. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 2 November > 2009. > > David Arctur, Director of Interoperability Programs at OGC said, "The > successful 2008 workshop hosted by ECMWF and the UK Met Office showed > many implementations of WMS for meteorology, which also improves the > usability of weather information in fields such as aviation, > transportation and disaster management. The upcoming workshop will > highlight recent progress in OGC standards and highlight the upcoming > Phase 7 OGC Web Services testbed activity (OWS-7)." > > The Met Office (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/) and Météo-France ( > http://france.meteofrance.com/) are > the UK's and France's National Weather Services. They are among the > world's leading weather forecast centres and main contributors to the > United Nations University Global Environment Information Centre > (GEIC). > > The European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) > (http://www.ecmwf.int/) is an international > European organization located in Reading, UK. It is the world's > leading centre for Medium Range Forecast. > > The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 380 > companies, government agencies, research organizations, and > universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly > available geospatial standards. 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 website at http://www.opengeospatial.org . > _______________________________________________ > Tc mailing list > Tc@lists.opengeospatial.org > https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/tc > > All OGC members are strongly encouraged to maintain a subscription to this > list. >
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