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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.
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)."
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