Open Geospatial Consortium

VERSES and NASA Partner to Pursue Standards for Space Industry

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Thursday, November 30, 2023
Government, JPL, Policy, DARPA, NEO, European Commission, PWC, Electricity, Natural Resources, APL, Genius, Mining, City, Open Geospatial Consortium, Artemis Accords, Architecture, NASA, SDO, Electronics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, IEEE, Safety, Scattered disc, Artemis, Morgan Stanley, Asset management

NASA seeks to advance international and interagency collaboration on space exploration efforts through technology and policy standards.

Key Points: 
  • NASA seeks to advance international and interagency collaboration on space exploration efforts through technology and policy standards.
  • NASA, JPL and many other stakeholders in the new “space race” have a vested interest in standardizing infrastructure and supporting the space economy, which Morgan Stanley estimates may grow to $1 Trillion by 2040.
  • The international space agency community is actively seeking to develop standards for space exploration.
  • Therefore, the Artemis Accords call for partner nations to utilize open international standards, develop new standards when necessary, and strive to support interoperability to the greatest extent practical,” says NASA.

Esri Integrates 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS System of Record, Enhancing 3D GIS Workflows

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Green Technology, Environment, Data Management, Technology, Software, Online, Index, 3D, AEC, OGC, Business development, Architecture, Organization, Open Geospatial Consortium, Engineering, Digital, GIS, Collection, ArcGIS Pro, 3D printing, Esri, ArcGIS

To meet this demand, Esri , the global leader in GIS technology, will integrate 3D Tiles into its ArcGIS software.

Key Points: 
  • To meet this demand, Esri , the global leader in GIS technology, will integrate 3D Tiles into its ArcGIS software.
  • As an open 3D data standard, 3D Tiles is interoperable and widely used by a variety of industries.
  • "With 3D Tiles seamlessly integrated into the ArcGIS 3D system of record, users can elevate their data beyond a realistic visualization by leveraging the analytic power of a complete GIS," continued Mims.
  • Along with its integration into ArcGIS Pro, 3D Tiles will soon be published to ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise as a tile-hosted service with added support throughout ArcGIS Platform for developers.

WORLD-RENOWNED GEOSPATIAL EXPERT SELECTED AS INAUGURAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TAYLOR GEOSPATIAL INSTITUTE

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Information, American University, Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award, U.S. Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, Open Geospatial Consortium, Aviation, American University of Beirut, Research, Grumman, Plan, The Excellence in Diversity Awards, OGC, Disaster, NASA, Engineering, Interior, Climate, Health, Saint Louis University, Food security, TGI, Woman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Management

"I am honored to be selected as the inaugural executive director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute," Alameh said. "I see TGI as a transformational actor in the geospatial ecosystem, accelerating our collective research, applications, and impact -- on climate, disasters, health, food security, defense and beyond."

Key Points: 
  • ST. LOUIS , June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nadine Alameh, Ph.D., has been selected as the inaugural executive director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI), a consortium of eight research institutions led by Saint Louis University.
  • She is also an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Interior's National Geospatial Advisory Committee and a board member of the United Nations Geospatial Global Information Management Private Sector Network.
  • "I am honored to be selected as the inaugural executive director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute," Alameh said.
  • "I see TGI as a transformational actor in the geospatial ecosystem, accelerating our collective research, applications, and impact -- on climate, disasters, health, food security, defense and beyond."

Duality Featured on Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas List

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Monday, May 22, 2023
Software, Networks, Transportation, Internet, Travel, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Technology, Amazon Web Services, Open Geospatial Consortium, Face, Intelligence, Fire, Rapid Response, Multimedia, Strategic planning, OGC, Honorable Mention, EMS, Falcon, Machine learning, Small business, Emergency medical services, AWS, Automation, Online shopping, Duality

Earlier this month, Fast Company named Duality to its 2023 list of World Changing Ideas.

Key Points: 
  • Earlier this month, Fast Company named Duality to its 2023 list of World Changing Ideas.
  • Duality was named a Finalist in the Rapid Response category and received Honorable Mentions in two additional categories, Small Business and On The Rise.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230522005065/en/
    Fast Company's recognition highlights the key role of digital twin-based simulation in solving complex real-world problems.
  • Since debuting this project in November 2022, Duality has continued their work in response planning and has expanded their scope into large-scale climate disasters.

New Open Geospatial Consortium member, Rendered.ai, mentioned as a tech innovator in video and image synthetic data

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Thursday, May 18, 2023
Transfer, Insurance, Platform as a service, Esri International User Conference, Open Geospatial Consortium, ALL, SAR, 3D, Automotive Supplier Innovation Program, AND, Research, Privacy, 2D, OGC, Synthetic-aperture radar, Government, Computer vision, Bangladesh Technical Education Board, IEEE, Rochester Institute of Technology, Acquisition, Publication, Data, Synthetic data, Physics, Earth observation, Space Capital LP, RGB, Bias, Transfer learning, Testbed, AWS, SVP, Conference, Video game, Information technology, Mobile phone, Gartner, AI

SEATTLE, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Rendered.ai, the leading platform provider for synthetic data for AI training and validation, is pleased to have been recognized by Gartner®  as one of the tech innovators in the 2023 Emerging Tech: Tech Innovators in Synthetic Data for Image and Video Data — Strategic Technology Vision report.

Key Points: 
  • The company, providing a platform for physics-based synthetic data generation, has been identified by Gartner as one of the tech innovators in video and image synthetic data with respect to strategic technology vision.
  • Rendered.ai also recently joined the Open Geospatial Consortium and will be giving featured talks at upcoming USGIF and OGC events.
  • Synthetic data has emerged as a critical tool for overcoming gaps, bias, and privacy issues with real- to train and validate AI systems.
  • *Gartner, "Emerging Tech: Tech Innovators in Synthetic Data for Image and Video Data — Strategic Technology Vision", February 17, 2023.

Cesium partners with Google Maps Platform to Render its New Photorealistic 3D Tiles

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Open Geospatial Consortium, Virtual globe, Nvidia Omniverse, Workflow, 3D, API, Web mapping, Photorealism, Google I/O, SDK, AR, Medical imaging, Caesium, Adobe Aero

PHILADELPHIA, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Philadelphia-based 3D geospatial company, Cesium , has partnered with Google Maps Platform on the experimental release of Photorealistic 3D Tiles , available through their Map Tiles API.

Key Points: 
  • PHILADELPHIA, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Philadelphia-based 3D geospatial company, Cesium , has partnered with Google Maps Platform on the experimental release of Photorealistic 3D Tiles , available through their Map Tiles API.
  • Photorealistic 3D Tiles, announced at Google I/O , use the Open Geospatial Consortium's 3D Tiles community standard pioneered by Cesium.
  • The Map Tiles API serves Photorealistic 3D Tiles to an open ecosystem of 3D Tiles-enabled runtimes including CesiumJS, Unreal Engine, Unity, and NVIDIA Omniverse.
  • Additional tools announced at Google I/O that leverage Photorealistic 3D Tiles include:
    Google's Geospatial Creator in Unity - A new workflow within ARCore Extensions for AR Foundation SDK that allows users to visualize the real world with Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Cesium for Unity.

MarkLogic 11 Unlocks Value of Complex Data with Industry’s Most Powerful Multi-Model Data Platform

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
Professional Services, Data Management, Technology, Data Analytics, Software, Internet, GraphQL, MarkLogic, OGC GeoSPARQL, Metadata, Open Geospatial Consortium, Global 2000, OAuth, UI, Public sector, Face, Growth, MarkLogic Server, Health, Tableau, Docker, Acquisition, Organization, Video game console, Computer data storage, Audit, Kubernetes

The MarkLogic data platform enables customers to connect and effectively leverage data and metadata as a single data resource.

Key Points: 
  • The MarkLogic data platform enables customers to connect and effectively leverage data and metadata as a single data resource.
  • MarkLogic 11 is the best data platform for complex data and metadata management, delivering unmatched data agility that will enable customers to get more value from their data and, in turn, make better, more informed decisions, said Jeff Casale, CEO of MarkLogic.
  • MarkLogic 11 builds on the companys complex data and metadata management capabilities with:
    Extended Platform Capabilities: MarkLogic exposes data in a way that's readily usable by existing products.
  • The MarkLogic data platform gives Global 2000 and public sector organizations a faster, trusted way to unlock value from complex data and achieve data agility.

With groundbreaking platform for computer vision synthetic data, Rendered.ai looks ahead to 2023 growth

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
Platform, Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT, Conference, NVIDIA, Open Geospatial Consortium, Workflow, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, Partnership, IEEE, Metadata, Planet Labs, Gartner, Digital image, Synthetic data, 3D, AI, Government, Artificial intelligence, News, Multimedia, AWS, Federal, Machine learning, Acquisition, Digital imaging, Organization, Medical device, Mobile phone, Television, Esri

BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rendered.ai, the leading platform for physics-based synthetic data, wraps up 2022 by recapping its tremendous progress providing a commercial offering that empowers customers to design and generate customized datasets to train machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Edge and remote sensing-based imagery collection are set to increase dramatically in 2023 and the need for tailored datasets to rapidly train and validate AI is going to drive significant demand for tools such as synthetic data. 

Key Points: 
  • We have already seen customers use synthetic data to achieve meaningful impact on real world outcomes, and we are proud to have developed the tools to get them there."
  • Launched in January, Rendered.ai quickly established its first subscription customers by building on previous work in the synthetic satellite imagery space.
  • Rendered.ai announced this Fall that its hosted platform for synthetic data generation is now available for subscription through the AWS Marketplace.
  • If you'd like to hear about the latest news, tips, and product updates on synthetic data for computer vision applications sign up forRendered.ai's newsletter .

MariaDB Joins Open Geospatial Consortium

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Thursday, August 18, 2022
Telecommunications, Satellite, Software, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Technology, Apps, Applications, Mobile, Wireless, Loo of the Year Awards, SQL, Business Technology Management, Open Geospatial Consortium, CEO, Technology, FAIR, MariaDB, CMO, Acquisition, OGC, Gold, Solution, Interoperability, Findability, Risk management, Linux

MariaDB Corporation today announced it has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) following its acquisitio n of geospatial solutions provider CubeWerx .

Key Points: 
  • MariaDB Corporation today announced it has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) following its acquisitio n of geospatial solutions provider CubeWerx .
  • Through the OGC, MariaDB will work with the geospatial community to advance open geospatial standards to make information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
  • We look forward to working with OGC and its members on the advancement of cloud-native geospatial standards, said Franz Aman, CMO, MariaDB Corporation.
  • As an open source company, open standards fit well with our value system and we are excited to embrace the work the OGC has accomplished as our way to store, access, manage and share geospatial data.

MariaDB Reimagines How Databases Deliver Geospatial Capabilities with Acquisition

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Thursday, August 18, 2022
Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Satellite, Apps, Applications, Technology, Telecommunications, Mobile, Wireless, API, Open Geospatial Consortium, Carbon, Database, IDC, MariaDB, Government, Acquisition, REST, Awareness, VP, Public sector, Satellite imagery, OGC, Oracle Spatial and Graph, Insurance, PostgreSQL, Risk management, Oracle

With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to offer through its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL .

Key Points: 
  • With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to offer through its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL .
  • Geospatial application development has moved from traditional geospatial interfacing with databases to off-the-shelf geospatial library use and web APIs.
  • MariaDBs vision for how to deliver geospatial capabilities aligns perfectly with what weve built at CubeWerx, said Edric Keighan, co-founder at CubeWerx and VP for geospatial engineering at MariaDB Corporation.
  • MariaDB is committed to open geospatial standards and is joining the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).