Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Connect Helsinki – it was OGC’s 135th Technical Meeting – titled ‘Interoperable Systems, Real-World Impact – A Global Community at Work.’ The meeting took place between the 1st and 4th June … Continue reading
As everyone knows the British love to talk about the weather, and in the UK we are currently in our official fourth heatwave of the year. A heatwave is declared when temperatures meet or exceed the heatwave temperature threshold for … Continue reading
I spent last week in London immersed in all things geospatial, attending both GEO Business and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) UK & Ireland Forum. GEO Business 2024 was held at the ExCeL London exhibition centre on the 4th and … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) launches both in terms of satellites and machine learning datasets, together with the discovery of a lost satellite! WorldView-Legion EO Satellites Finally Launch! We were a little premature when we … Continue reading
Looking at the launches of a chatbot, Russian and Chinese Earth Observation (EO) satellites that have been announced, and occurred over the last week. Chatbot Launch Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of the EO sector for years through the … Continue reading
This week, I’m at the 128th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member Meeting in Delft, Netherlands taking place from 25th to 28th March 2024. The theme for the meeting is Geospatial Data for Building Information Models (GEO-BIM) for the Built Environment, … Continue reading
The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Disaster Pilot 23 public Demonstration Day took place yesterday, where all the results and achievements of the 2023 Pilot presented within a webinar. We discussed the OGC organisation itself in last week’s blog, and as … Continue reading
I spent last week in London at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) October 2023 Open Standards Code Sprint. Or to put it another way, I spent three full days simply coding, one of my favourite ways to pass the time! … Continue reading
Last week I attended the June member meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. OGC is a consortium of geospatial experts committed to improving access to geospatial information, and supporting data exchange through standards. We were … Continue reading
