GIS.FCU takes principal membership in the OGC

The Open Geospatial Consortium announced that the GIS Research Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (GIS.FCU) has become a Principal Member of the OGC.

Principal Members evaluate and provide guidance on market direction and Consortium focus, and have oversight over the development, release and adoption of OGC standards through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee (PC).

GIS.FCU has been an active participant in the OGC since 2003 and has contributed to the development of OGC standards, interoperability initiatives and compliance tests. By the terms of the company’s Principal Membership memorandum of understanding with the OGC, GIS.FCU will provide significant technical resources to support the OGC’s Compliance Testing and Certification Program.

Mark Reichardt, President and CEO, OGC, said, "We are delighted that the GIS Research Center has joined OGC at the Principal level, and we are excited to receive their commitment of substantial resources and staff expertise to advance compliance tests for OGC’s Sensor Web Enablement standards."

Prof. Tien-Yin (Jimmy) Chou, Director at GIS.FCU, said "The GIS Research Center at Feng Chia University (GIS.FCU) has dedicated R&D resources to OGC standard based applications in environmental monitoring for several years with fruitful results, and it is GIS.FCU’s honor to have this opportunity to set up the first OGC Compliance Testing and Certification Center outside America or Europe and to join in international and interdisciplinary cooperation as one of the Principal Members of OGC."