FYI: OGC Emergency and Disaster Management Domain Working Group

The OGC has recently formed a new Emergency and Disaster Management Domain 
Working Group. The charter of this new DWG is publicly available. This WG 
actually a revitalization of the older OGC Risk Management special interest 
group. 

 

The first formal meeting of the EDM DWG will be in Toulouse France next 
Monday. The Agenda is:

 

  
Presentations 
  (one hour, 15 minute presentations):

  
    
"Earthquake 
    Disaster Information System for the Marmara Region, Turkey" - Christian 
    Kiehle, lat/lon GmbH

    
"Emergency 
    Support System - architecture and data fusion" - Tomas Reznik, Masaryk 
    University

    
“Adoption 
    of OGC standards and architectural principles in Emergency Response Core 
    Services pre-operational platform – Project SAFER”- Arnauld Cauchy, EADS 
    Astrium

    
"Open, 
    interoperable enterprise solutions for Emergency and Disaster Management" 
    -  Andrea Fiduccia, 
    Intergraph

  
EDM 
  DWG collaboration with OGC Alliance Partners (OASIS, IJIS, IETF, NENA, 
  others)

Please notice the last bullet item. If there are any standards 
coordination issues you would like discussed, please let me 
know.

 

Regards

 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification Program
Open 
Geospatial Consortium
www.opengeospatial.org

 

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