George Percivall

Future Internet - Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) beginning in 2012
GEOWOW Project beginning in 2012
GeoViQua Project beginning in 2011
ISTIMES Project beginning in 2010

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… Show more

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. Show less

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… Show more

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 Show less

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… Show more

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/).

Open source for geospatial is discussed on geospatial@apache.org. Show less

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… Show more

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 Show less

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… Show more

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. Show less

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… Show more

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 Show less

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.

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… Show more

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
- Policy implementation Show less

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)

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.

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