[OSGeo-Announce] OGC honored Jacobs University Professor Peter Baumann with Kenneth D. Gardels Award

[Anne Ghisla]

Peter Baumann, Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University, has
been honored with the Kenneth D. Gardels Award by the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC). The OGC Board of Directors awarded the prize to Peter
Baumann in recognition of his "significant contribution to the OGC's
essential role and mission in the global Information Technology
community". 


Jeffrey K. Harris, Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors, said: "We
wish to express our deep appreciation for the extraordinary contribution
you have made to the OGC community and to people around the world who
are the ultimate beneficiaries of improvements in the development,
management and use of geoscientific data. Devoting your time and
bringing your dedication, expertise, critical thinking and leadership to
OGC working groups has resulted in significant and enduring advances in
technical standards."

Peter Baumann has been closely working with the Open Geospatial
Consortium for more than ten years. He is editor of twelve adopted
standards around the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) suite of Big Geo
Data standards. Recently he has been instrumental in establishing a new
Big Data Domain Working Group with the OGC which he also co-chairs. As a
consequence of this engagement, Peter Baumann has been invited by the
European Spatial Data Infrastructure initiative, INSPIRE, as well as ISO
to provide expertise in geo service and query language standardization.

Peter Baumann's research focuses on large-scale scientific information
services, in particular: massive multi-dimensional data cubes. He has
architected the rasdaman ("raster data manager") technology which in
fact has pioneered a new research field, Array Databases. With rasdaman,
spatio-temporal sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data of any
size can be accessed and explored interactively through Array SQL which
offers a "what you get is what you need" interface to scientists,
engineers, and other data users.



About the Kenneth D. Gardels Award

The Award is named after Kenneth D. Gardels, a Research Specialist at
the Center for Environmental Design Research (University of
California), who passed away in 1999 at the height of his career. It
was conceived to memorialize the spirit of a man with a passion for
making the world a better place through open communication and the use
of geospatial information technology to improve the quality of human
life.


About OGC

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international
industry consortium of 473 companies, government agencies and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available interface standards. OGC® Standards support interoperable
solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based
services and mainstream IT. The standards empower technology developers
to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful
with all kinds of applications. More info: www.opengeospatial.org
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