The Open Geospatial Consortium and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing have agreed to develop and use open geospatial standards.

Under the agreement the two organizations will work cooperatively to raise the awareness, acceptance, and implementation of open standards and to promote educational programs and best practices. This will involve Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) demonstrations and workshops, sensor network standardization events, and events on topics such as multi-source data fusion and multi-spectral image processing.

The ISPRS is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry, remote sensing and their applications. The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international consortium of more than 395 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities developing publicly available geospatial standards.

Community sponsors of the OpenStack Cloud include 25 companies like Dell and Intel.

NASA contributed a hardware approach that powers its Nebula Cloud Platform. Nebula uses containerized data centers, lowering cost by centralizing hardware. Nebula is used for Mars images, seen in Microsoft’s WorldWide telescope. Microsoft recently unveiled the largest and clearest image of the night sky ever assembled. The “TeraPixel” sky map was generated with Microsoft’s latest HPC and parallel software assets.

OpenStack’s mission is to “produce the ubiquitous OpenSource Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.”

The $400 million Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), funded by the National Science Foundation and now being built along the West Coast of the United States, will use Amazon Web Services with two 10 Gbps connections to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Underwater sensors, powered by 10 KiloVolt cables carrying 10 Gbps data from a Shore Station on the coast of Oregon. OOI will “bug” the ocean, forming an undersea network stretching from Canada to California.

Meanwhile, DARPA will develop an exascale supercomputer, using Intel and Nvidia processors. One exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, the speed of today’s fastest supercomputers, including the IBM Roadrunner, the Chinese Nebulae and the Cray Jaguar.

It would support massive streaming sensor data (pdf). Prototype UHPC systems are expected to be complete by 2018.

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The Open Geospatial Consortium today announced the formation of an Open GeoSMS Standards Working Group (SWG) today. It will advance the Candidate Standard as an adopted standard and define a short messaging service (SMS) between different mobile devices or applications.

The standard is expected to provide plug and play compatibility among different devices and be incorporated into RSS feeds and a variety of devices.

Currently devices or applications are often unable to share location information with each other because of technical incompatibilities. GeoSMS encoding for location will be compatible with other OGC standards, such as those for sensor webs and earth imaging. There are some 30 Open Geospatial standards.

Open GeoSMS will also be compatible with standards such as the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard and the IETF RFC Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO).

The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international consortium of more than 395 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities, developing a publicly available geospatial standard. They support interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services for any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Developers Conference is taking place in Portland, Ore., this week with hundreds of speakers and lots to see and do.

Here is the OSCON Blog, the OSCON 2010 Schedule, Keynotes, Events, Health Information Technology, BOF Sessions, and a Cloud Summit. Some OSCON tutorials will be live-streamed, although they require a registration fee.

OSCON’s Mobile sessions explain how to target all major mobile platforms with open source.

OpenHeatMap is an open-source tool to embed visualizations of data with a location element and changes over time. It works in Flash or HTML5.

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The Open Geospatial Consortium today announced the formation of an Open GeoSMS Standards Working Group (SWG) today. It will advance the Candidate Standard as an adopted standard and define a short messaging service (SMS) between different mobile devices or applications.

The standard is expected to provide plug and play compatibility among different devices and be incorporated into RSS feeds and a variety of devices.

Currently devices or applications are often unable to share location information with each other because of technical incompatibilities. GeoSMS encoding for location will be compatible with other OGC standards, such as those for sensor webs and earth imaging. There are some 30 Open Geospatial standards.

Open GeoSMS will also be compatible with standards such as the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard and the IETF RFC Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO).

The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international consortium of more than 395 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities, developing a publicly available geospatial standard. They support interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services for any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Developers Conference is taking place in Portland, Ore., this week with hundreds of speakers and lots to see and do.

Here is the OSCON Blog, the OSCON 2010 Schedule, Keynotes, Events, Health Information Technology, BOF Sessions, and a Cloud Summit. Some OSCON tutorials will be live-streamed, although they require a registration fee.

OSCON’s Mobile sessions explain how to target all major mobile platforms with open source.

OpenHeatMap is an open-source tool to embed visualizations of data with a location element and changes over time. It works in Flash or HTML5.

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