OGC PRESS RELEASE
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4 March 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Academic Summit 2014 will be held 15-16 September 2014 at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada as part of theSeptember OGC Technical Committee Meeting.
2014 marks the 20thanniversary of the creation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). After twodecades, OGC standards have become a key enabler of geospatialinteroperability, delivering significant societal, economic and scientificbenefits by integrating digital location resources into commercial andinstitutional processes worldwide. Emerging technologies such as cloudcomputing, smartphones, UAVs, sensor networks and the Internet of Things offernew ways of collecting, accessing, and analyzing geospatial information,generating ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing ofgeo-referenced data. This rapidly expanding technology domain brings excitingnew challenges and opportunities to many scientific disciplines and to thegeospatial interoperability research community.
We invite you tosubmit papers describing your cutting-edge, exciting new research to the OGCAcademic Summit 2014. The OGC Academic Summit 2014 will provide a uniqueinternational forum in which to present and discuss progress and futuredirections of geospatial interoperability as it applies to computer science andto sciences in which geoprocessing has become an essential tool. Each papermust be written in English and submitted in a PDF file following the IJGIformat (WORD, LaTeX). Submitted manuscripts should not have been publishedpreviously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Allmanuscripts will be refereed through a peer-review process. At least one of theauthors of an accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper.
The ISPRS InternationalJournal of Geo-Information (IJGI) will publish a special issue for the OGCAcademic Summit 2014. Accepted papers will be invited to incorporate reviewers'comments, extend the paper (if needed) and submit to the IJGI Open Geospatialspecial issue. Publication fees will be fully waived for papers submitted in2014. See the Call for Papers. Clickto Submit Your Paper.
Academic Summitattendees will have an opportunity to network with OGC member representativesfrom around the world and participate directly in working groups, plenarysessions, dinners and outings.
TheOGC is an international consortium of more than 470 companies, governmentagencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensusprocess to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standardssupport interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wirelessand location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technologydevelopers to make geospatial information and services accessible and usefulwith any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGCwebsite at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact.
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