Open Geospatial Consortium standards

Abstract

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization founded in 1994. In the OGC, hundreds of commercial, governmental, nonprofit, and research organizations worldwide collaborate in an open consensus process to develop and promote the implementation of open standards for geospatial content and services, geographic information system (GIS) data processing, and GIS data sharing. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that “geo‐enable” apps on mobile devices, location‐based services, the Internet of Things, and mainstream web applications. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

The COVID-19 pandemic: How predictive analysis, artificial intelligence and GIS can be integrated into a clinical command system to improve disaster response and preparedness

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