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Interoperable OGC Web Services (OWS)
applied to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
architecture were successfully demonstrated at a 22-23 May 2006
workshop at the 2006 International Symposium on Future Intelligent
Earth Observing Satellites (FIEOS"06) in Beijing, China. This was the
third in a series of GEOSS Architecture workshops organized by IEEE.
The workshop, titled "The User and GEOSS Architecture III", focused on
wind energy and natural resource management. Dr. Jinsoo You and Dr.
Konstantin Nurutdinov, both of the Centre for Geospatial Science,
University of Nottingham, UK, organized the demonstration, which
showed the role of the OGC"s standards in the open architecture that
underpins the "system of systems." Eighteen organizations from six
countries participated in the demonstration.
The demonstration showed complex 4D wind data and online
meteorological processing services being published, discovered, and
accessed on the Web using existing OGC standards as highlighted in the
GEOSS 10 Year Implementation Plan.
Charlotte Hasager of the Wind Energy Department at Denmark"s Risoe
National Laboratory said, "Use of distributed web services is clearly
a very good option to be further exploited in wind energy. In China
the aim to use satellite imagery and database information for wind
resource mapping is higher than anywhere else I have seen. So it was a
very good place to have this demonstration indeed."
Chao Wang, China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS); Dr.
Jay Pearlman, Chair of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observations (CEO);
and Prof. Leung Tsang, executive vice president of IEEE Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) moderated. Prof. Mike Jackson, director
of the Centre for Geospatial Science, said, "The demonstration was a
great example of what can be achieved when laboratories around the
world collaborate together through the adoption of the OGC
interoperability standards."
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