Fw: [Tc] European Agencies Announce Workshop on Use of OGC Standards in Meteorology

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

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 .
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