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Maxar Technologies Geo-specialists Fabio Pacifici and me at the #IGARSS conference supporting IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in…
Maxar Technologies Geo-specialists Fabio Pacifici and me at the #IGARSS conference supporting IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in…
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Thank you IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for a great week at #IGARSS2024! CEOS was represented at a number of presentations and…
Thank you IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for a great week at #IGARSS2024! CEOS was represented at a number of presentations and…
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Complimenti a Massimo C Comparini, a.d. di Thales Alenia Space Italia, tra le key players nostre associate, per aver ricevuto il premio "Ieee Grss…
Complimenti a Massimo C Comparini, a.d. di Thales Alenia Space Italia, tra le key players nostre associate, per aver ricevuto il premio "Ieee Grss…
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Board member
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Arts and Culture
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Publications
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Geospatial Data Science
Open Geospatial Consortium
This Geospatial Data Science publication is based on the Location Powers: Data Science Summit of November 2019. The white paper provides a description of the presentations and discussions of the summit along with recommendations for OGC activities to advance the field of Geospatial Data Science.
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ASPRS Manual of Remote Sensing, version 4, Chapter Editor
ASPRS
The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) developed the 4th edition of the Manual of Remote Sensing (MRS). John Faundeen and George Percivall were editors of the “Archiving and Access Systems” chapter.
The history of the MRS has gone through three editions first launched in 1975 covering topics on instruments, interpretation and applications beginning with imagery from Skylab and ERTS (Landsat-1). Immense changes have occurred during the publication of the three…The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) developed the 4th edition of the Manual of Remote Sensing (MRS). John Faundeen and George Percivall were editors of the “Archiving and Access Systems” chapter.
The history of the MRS has gone through three editions first launched in 1975 covering topics on instruments, interpretation and applications beginning with imagery from Skylab and ERTS (Landsat-1). Immense changes have occurred during the publication of the three editions leading to the need to refresh both technically and how the manual is published.
This chapter focuses on the four main topics of Archiving, Discovery, Visualize & Access, and Processing & Workflows. Each main topic has several sections addressed by subject matter experts from private industry, academia, or government.Other authorsSee publication -
The Golden Age of Geospatial Data Science and Engineering
Inaugural talk of the UIUC CyberGIS Geospatial Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series.
Data Science is in a golden age. The mathematical foundations of Data Science, known for many years, are now seeing broad applicability due to engineering advances in cloud and big data computing and due to the explosive availability of data about nearly every aspect of human activity coming from mobile devices, remote sensing and the Internet of Things. Nearly all of this data has components of location and time leading to stunning advances in geospatial data science. Development of…
Data Science is in a golden age. The mathematical foundations of Data Science, known for many years, are now seeing broad applicability due to engineering advances in cloud and big data computing and due to the explosive availability of data about nearly every aspect of human activity coming from mobile devices, remote sensing and the Internet of Things. Nearly all of this data has components of location and time leading to stunning advances in geospatial data science. Development of intelligent systems using knowledge models leading to insights and understanding have the potential to significantly transform geospatial data sciences. To achieve the fullest extent of their potential, these innovations require establishment of open consensus standards. This talk will review recent developments in innovations, standards, and applications of geospatial data science and engineering.
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New OGC® framework for spatial communication to benefit Smart Cities
Directions Magazine
As urban populations increase, the need to better integrate physical, digital and human systems to support urban growth also rapidly increases. Smart Cities are responding to the need by integrating systems through digital technologies that rely on location as the primary method of organizing urban information and services, but to communicate effectively about location requires standards.
Recognizing that need, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has provided a new open standards…As urban populations increase, the need to better integrate physical, digital and human systems to support urban growth also rapidly increases. Smart Cities are responding to the need by integrating systems through digital technologies that rely on location as the primary method of organizing urban information and services, but to communicate effectively about location requires standards.
Recognizing that need, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has provided a new open standards framework for spatial communication to benefit Smart Cities in its white paper, "Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework". The primary author is George Percivall, OGC's Chief Engineer and CTO. The paper is free to view and download.
Projects
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European Commission FP Advisory Boards
Future Internet - Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) beginning in 2012
GEOWOW Project beginning in 2012
GeoViQua Project beginning in 2011
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Location Powers: Urban Digital Twin summit
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The Location Powers: Urban Digital Twins summit convened experts on urban geography, planning and governance; supported by civil engineering and BIM for design, model and operation of physical infrastructure; along with data science, machine learning, cloud computing, edge computing for information infrastructure. Cities ranging in size and economic prosperity are to be considered leading to recommendations supportive of urban development goals, e.g., UN SDG. Success requires collaboration of…
The Location Powers: Urban Digital Twins summit convened experts on urban geography, planning and governance; supported by civil engineering and BIM for design, model and operation of physical infrastructure; along with data science, machine learning, cloud computing, edge computing for information infrastructure. Cities ranging in size and economic prosperity are to be considered leading to recommendations supportive of urban development goals, e.g., UN SDG. Success requires collaboration of multiple tiers of government, the private sector, public utilities, building owners, community groups, etc. Several levels of scale in space and time will be considered, from city dashboards for real time situational awareness (e.g., transportation) to scientific datasets and analysis (e.g., public health), on the scale of long term urban sustainability.
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Geospatial Technology Forecasting
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OGC Tech Trends uniquely provided technology assessments based on peer-reviewed material spanning ICT, science, and any technologies supporting the collection, processing, and understanding of geospatial information. Periodic updates include: a refresh of the emerging trends mindmap; analysis of the trends using the AI-based Geospatial Technology Explorer; grouping of synergetic trends for analysis; roadmaps for select groupings; and a single summary chart depicting the Priority Tech…
OGC Tech Trends uniquely provided technology assessments based on peer-reviewed material spanning ICT, science, and any technologies supporting the collection, processing, and understanding of geospatial information. Periodic updates include: a refresh of the emerging trends mindmap; analysis of the trends using the AI-based Geospatial Technology Explorer; grouping of synergetic trends for analysis; roadmaps for select groupings; and a single summary chart depicting the Priority Tech Trends.
Technology forecasting under the direction of George Percivall began with a strategic assessment of OGC Technology, July 2008 http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=29092
The last version of the OGC Technology Forecast was in December 2020: https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=94535&version=1 -
ApacheCon 2020 Geospatial Track
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ApacheCon 2020 continued the series of geospatial tracks of the annual Apache Software Foundation main conference. The Apache Geospatial Track provides the latest in applying Apache Projects to geospatial data and processing. Beginning in 2016, the geospatial track has provided a venue for geospatial applications using open source from Apache and other open source foundations. The Geospatial Track included a focus on the use of open standards to enable interoperability and code reuse between…
ApacheCon 2020 continued the series of geospatial tracks of the annual Apache Software Foundation main conference. The Apache Geospatial Track provides the latest in applying Apache Projects to geospatial data and processing. Beginning in 2016, the geospatial track has provided a venue for geospatial applications using open source from Apache and other open source foundations. The Geospatial Track included a focus on the use of open standards to enable interoperability and code reuse between independent software developments. The Geospatial Track for ApacheCon 2020 included projects from Apache Software Foundation as well as from LocationTech Technology ( http://locationtech.org) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (https://www.osgeo.org/).
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Location Powers: Data Science Summit
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The Location Powers: Data Science summit convened experts on data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, remote sensing and GIS to provide a technology basis. Participation by leaders in social sciences, business development and government policy will lead to recommendations that have meaningful outcomes from the geospatial data science developments. A report of the results of this workshop has been completed and published as the OGC White Paper: "Geospatial Data…
The Location Powers: Data Science summit convened experts on data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, remote sensing and GIS to provide a technology basis. Participation by leaders in social sciences, business development and government policy will lead to recommendations that have meaningful outcomes from the geospatial data science developments. A report of the results of this workshop has been completed and published as the OGC White Paper: "Geospatial Data Science". http://docs.ogc.org/wp/20-001r2.html
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ASPRS Manual of Remote Sensing, version 4, Chapter Editor
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The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is undertaking the 4th edition of the Manual of Remote Sensing (MRS). John Faundeen and George Percivall are editors of the “Archiving and Access Systems” chapter.
The history of the MRS has gone through three editions first launched in 1975 covering topics on instruments, interpretation and applications beginning with imagery from Skylab and ERTS (Landsat-1). Immense changes have occurred during the publication of the…The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is undertaking the 4th edition of the Manual of Remote Sensing (MRS). John Faundeen and George Percivall are editors of the “Archiving and Access Systems” chapter.
The history of the MRS has gone through three editions first launched in 1975 covering topics on instruments, interpretation and applications beginning with imagery from Skylab and ERTS (Landsat-1). Immense changes have occurred during the publication of the three editions leading to the need to refresh both technically and how the manual is published.
MRS-4 will be developed as an enhanced e-book, generated by numerous international professionals and managed by Chapter author/editors who will lead efforts to develop Chapter outlines and manage their content proactively by soliciting contributed material from subject-matter experts. This edition will be a “living book” that can be updated to include new research & technology. The expected release date for MRS-4 is 2015.Other creatorsSee project -
OGC Testbed 11: Urban Climate Reslience
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OGC Testbed 11 developments for Urban Climate Resilience were referenced In December 2014 by the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Policy Fact Sheet titled "Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience." The Fact Sheet lists OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11, identified in the OSTP document and sponsored by an international group of government agencies, supports national climate-change…
OGC Testbed 11 developments for Urban Climate Resilience were referenced In December 2014 by the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Policy Fact Sheet titled "Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience." The Fact Sheet lists OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11, identified in the OSTP document and sponsored by an international group of government agencies, supports national climate-change preparedness by focusing on the spatial information to illustrate potential impacts that would lead to populations being displaced due to coastal inundation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIX9-AkBCLE
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NSF EarthCube Test Governance
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Member of the EarthCube Secretariat IT Team.
The mission of the Test Governance Secretariat is to organize and carry out the EarthCube governance planning process, while supporting the collaborative efforts to share data, tools, and models to advance traditional and transformational science and education throughout the EarthCube community. -
Geospatial Technology Trends - a blog series
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All predictions are wrong, some are useful. Predictions of geospatial technology trends have been the topic of recent discussions by the OGC Board of Directors and the OGC Planning Committee. One of my roles as OGC Chief Engineer is to offer a slate of "ripe issues" as a basis of these discussions. This blog provides an overview of the ripe issues developed in March 2013 and explains how they were developed. A series of blogs discuss each issue individually.
The ripe issues of…All predictions are wrong, some are useful. Predictions of geospatial technology trends have been the topic of recent discussions by the OGC Board of Directors and the OGC Planning Committee. One of my roles as OGC Chief Engineer is to offer a slate of "ripe issues" as a basis of these discussions. This blog provides an overview of the ripe issues developed in March 2013 and explains how they were developed. A series of blogs discuss each issue individually.
The ripe issues of geospatial technology identified in March 2013:
- The Power of Location
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Development
- Indoor Frontier
- Cartographers of the future
- Big Processing of Geospatial Data
- Smart Cities Depend on Smart Location
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Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
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OGC joined the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) as a Participating Member in February 2005. OGC contributed to development of GEOSS through several activities including Workshops, Architecture and Data Committee, and the Architecture Implementation Pilot. An OGC-produced video highlight GEO's progress implementing GEOSS architecture (https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1323) with full details document in Engineering Reports (https://www.ogc.org/projects/initiatives/geoss-ogc)
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GIGAS
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GIGAS (GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES an Action in Support) was a European project co-funded by the European Commission as a Support Action under Grant Agreement number 224274 in the period June 2008 to May 2010.
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NASA Digital Earth Office
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NASA established the project to advance the Digital Earth vision: A virtual representation of our planet that enables a person to explore and interact with the vast amounts of natural and cultural information gathered about the Earth; using the surface of the earth as the organizing metaphor for a vast amount of data Surface of the earth as the organizing metaphor for a vast amount of data
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Great team from VERSES and the Spatial Web Foundation made this possible
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Here’s to a successful July 2024 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Administrative Committee (AdCom) Meeting! We met over 3 days and…
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I’m heading to #IGARSS this weekend to represent CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) - look forward to meeting many of you and…
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Got to pen my first offish Google Cloud Blog post to launch our parternship thought leadership hub at #googlepublicsector! Take a looksie 👀…
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IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) is thrilled to partner with the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society and the IEEE Oceanic…
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After five years of work, collaborating with a diverse group of experts from around the globe, we can finally announce that IEEE 7014 HAS BEEN…
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Ray Kurzweil's new book - “The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI” - is reviewed today by Becca Rothfeld. (The review is behind a WaPo…
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