20 Years of OGC: Open Geo-Data, Software, and Standards
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2015) | Viewed by 50124
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Internet of Things; trajectory mining; web mapping; interoperability; open geospatial software; sensor networks
2. Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: Internet of Things; sensors; geospatial data quality; interoperability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The year 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). After two decades, OGC standards have become a key enabler of geospatial interoperability, delivering significant societal, economic and scientific benefits by integrating digital location resources into commercial and institutional processes worldwide. Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, smartphones, UAVs, sensor networks and the Internet of Things offer new ways of collecting, accessing, and analyzing geospatial information, generating an ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of geo-referenced data. This rapidly expanding technology domain brings exciting new challenges and opportunities to many scientific disciplines and to the geospatial interoperability research community.
You are invited to contribute to this Special Issue of ISPRS International Journal for Geo-Information, which will focus on research in the development and application of geospatial interoperability standards. This special issue will present the progress and future directions of geospatial interoperability as it applies to computer science and to sciences in which geoprocessing has become an essential tool.
Dr. Steve Liang
Dr. Mohamed Bakillah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Open Geospatial Consortium
- interoperability
- open data
- open standards
- web mapping
- web processing
- sensor web
- Internet of Things
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