Fwd: GEOSS-OGC Workshop, Goa

Allan Doyle adoyle at eogeo.org
Fri Jul 21 14:35:39 EDT 2006


This could be a good place to accrue some Good Publicity for OSGeo...

In fact, I'd like to start a "Developing Country" or maybe "NGO"  
activity within OSGeo with an eye towards moving EOGEO and OSGeo  
closer together in some way.

I started a wiki page where we can think about this:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/NGO_Project

	Allan

Begin forwarded message:

> From: George Percivall <gpercivall at opengeospatial.org>
> Date: July 21, 2006 13:45:21 EDT
> To: afdoyle at mit.edu
> Subject: GEOSS-OGC Workshop, Goa
>
> Alan,
>
> We are developing a demonstration for a GEOSS workshop in in  
> India.  I thought you might have an interest.
>
> The theme of the GEOSS Workshop is Public Health.  We're  
> considering a demo around the theme of "spread of disease with a  
> flood event".  The demo will be part of a symposium on sustainable  
> development.
>
> We are building a list of servers that supply data of India using  
> OpenGIS Web Service specfications.  Might you know of some servers,  
> in particular, in India?
>
> Might you have some links to information about using open standards  
> for sustainable development?  I am going to go look at the WSSD  
> from a couple years ago.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
> _________________________________
> Potential Public Health Scenario for demo during GEOSS Workshop in  
> Goa.
>
> “Tracking disease spread following a flood”
>
> * Scenario sequence:
> 1. Health worker in office accesses variety of information  
> regarding status of flooded region: CSW, WMS, WFS, WCS.
> 2. PDA is sync’ed with desktop computer holding the information  
> gather in #1.
> 3. Health worker travels to field surveying for evidence of disease  
> spread
> 4. Updates to information in PDA is made.  Some high priority  
> updates are provided by Cell link to server using GeoRSS.
> 5. After return to office, remainder of feature updates are  
> transmitted using WFS-T
>
>
>
>
>

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