The Implementation of International Geospatial Standards for Earth and Space Sciences

The Earth and space sciences are implementing international open standards for discovery, access and processing of geospatial information. These standards provide for interoperability well tuned to the Earth and space sciences, because members of the same community developed the standards. At the last EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly meeting -held in Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April 2009- a special event discussed this important topic. The session presented valuable and innovative experiences conducted by important Earth science Communities for: Geological applications, Hydrologic applications, Land Monitoring Network Services, Ocean applications, Met-Ocean applications, and new data tools for Climatology. These experiences showed some of the latest advances in implementing open standards for access to sensor data, processing of the data suitable for a specific decision or research context, and presentation of the information to the various communities ranging from researchers, policy makers and general public. The talks from the EGU event are posted here: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/525 The presentation will provide a report on the special event and outline the significant specification similes and possible synergies.