RE: Recent CBRN Interoperability for Situational Awareness Workshop

["Carl Reed" <creed@opengeospatial.org>]

Lat week I attended a CBRN Interoperability for Situational Awareness 
Workshop. Very well attended, informative, and organized. A variety of 
topics were covered, from networks to communications to sensor integration 
to standards (interface and encoding).

CAP was discussed a number of times. Several take aways from the 
discussions:

CAP is definitely seeing high interest and potential uptake in the CBRN 
community.
However, CAP implementations in this community are doing a variety of 
interesting additions (such as embedding sensor metadata) that will make the 
implementations non-interoperable.
And numerous requests for more flexible or extensible mechanisms for 
expressing geo content. The requests were pretty much in line with what we 
received during the public comment period.

One thing that stuck in my mind for sure is the need for a profile of CAP 
for the CBRN community!

Cheers

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification Program
OGC

The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

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