GEOSS Workshops with OGC Demonstrations
The Workshop Series :“The User and the GEOSS Architecture”
For more information, please see the IEEE website for the Workshop Series
| When | Where | Conference | OGC Lead | Demo Theme |
| July 2005 | Seoul, Korea | IGARSS05 | GMU | Tsunami recovery |
| October 2005 | South Africa | AfricaGIS | CSIR | Wildfire response |
| May 2006 | Beijing, China | FIEOS | U. Nottingham | Wind Energy |
| July 2006 | Corsica, France | ISEIM | U. Nottingham | Wind Energy |
| July 2006 | Denver, US | IGARSS06 |
GMU & Wash Univ. | Air Quality |
| Sept 2006 | Goa, India | ISPRS Comm IV | UCL | Disease spread by flooding |
| November 2006 | Santiago, Chile | GSDI-9 | CIESIN | Poverty Reduction |
| April 2007 | Hawaii, USA | IEEE System of Systems (SoS) | CSIRO | SoS for GEOSS |
| June 2007 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
ISRSE | Univ of New Mexico | Sustainable Agriculture |
| July 2007 | Barcelona, Spain | IGARSS07 | Washington Univ. | |
| August 2007 | Yellowknife, Canada | IPY GeoNorth | Compusult, CIESIN,IMAA-CNR | |
| September 2007 | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | AfricaGIS2007 | Water and Health | |
| September 2007 | Boulder, CO, USA |
OGC TC Plenary | NERC, CIESIN, IMAA-CNR | Regional Decisions for Climate Change |
| July 2008 | Beijing, China | XXI ISPRS Congress | GEOSS Pilot | Air Quality and Human Health |
| July 2008 | Boston, MA, USA | IGARSS 2008 | OGCii | Air Quality and Coastal Ecosystems |
| October 2008 | Accra, Ghana | AARSE2008 | ESRI, 52North, OSGeo | GEOSS Interoperability and Applications to Water Security & Governance |
| December 2008 | Valencia, Spain | OGC TC Plenary | GEOSS Architecture |
GEOSS Workshop Series
This series of GEOSS workshops is focused on how the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) architecture can meet user needs. The workshops provide a forum for addressing benefits and challenges of advanced global information system implementation for societal benefits. IEEE in conjunction ISPRS and OGC are proud to present a series of workshops geared to support the continuing effort to effectively organize and distribute remote sensing information in a way that benefits people around the world. These workshops are free and we invite your participation.
GWS Demonstrations in the GEOSS Workshop Series
Each workshop contains a demonstration of the GEOSS approach to architecture based on open, international standards for interoperability. OGC members develop and demonstrate a scenario relevant to the workshop theme using OGC standards.
Lessons Learned from GWS Demonstrations
•Tremendous enthusiasm and commitment of agencies and research groups to collaborate
•Demo provides a fast-track to skills development and knowledge transfer.
•GEOSS application-specific demos are a great way to engage with user communities that would not necessarily look to OGC standards.
•Live demo is “probably” not the best means of communication – targeted descriptive piece should accompany presentation which may be pre-recorded demo
•Communication networks are not reliable at workshops
•Need clear message about using distributed components with open standards, vs., standalone application
•Demo needs to be “persistent”
Organizations leading GWS Demonstrations
CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (ZA)
CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network (US)
GMU - George Mason University (US)
U. Nottingham - University of Nottingham (UK)
UCL - University College London (UK)
WashUniv - Washington University, St. Louis (US)
Conferences hosting GEOSS Workshops
IGARSS - IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium
FIEOS - Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites
ISEIM- International Symposium on Environmental Identities and Mediterranean Area
ISPRS - International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing - Commission IV
AARSE - African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment
GSDI - Global Spatial Data Infrastrucure