Zaffar brings rich and diverse board experience, a focus on Space and Spatial sector integration, and a passion to support the earth observation community.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to its Board of Directors.

“Aligning geospatial data innovation and utility across industry, academia and government is OGC’s calling,” said Jeffrey Harris, Chair of the OGC Board of Directors. “Zaffar is a geospatial rainmaker whose broad first-hand experience will bring important insights and marketplace understanding to the OGC Board. His expertise across a variety of use-cases will allow OGC to optimize our prioritization of consortium activities.”

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GASGI joins OGC as a Principal Member to leverage the OGC’s collective geospatial expertise in building a healthy & competitive Geospatial Sector within KSA.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to welcome the Saudi Arabia General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GASGI) as a new OGC Principal Member.

As a Principal Member of OGC, GASGI will participate across OGC activities and serve in OGC’s Planning Committee to explore market and technology trends relevant to OGC’s global mission to make location information more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).

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Come advance the development of the WaterML 2.0 suite of standards in the area of water quality data, and help increase the effectiveness of related global development activities.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Water Quality Interoperability Experiment (WQ IE), which will advance the development of the WaterML 2.0 suite of standards in the area of water quality data. Proposal submissions are due by September 13, 2022.

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