Homepage of the ISPRS adhoc group on standards

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
INTERNATIONALE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR PHOTOGRAMMETRIE UND
FERNERKUNDUNG
SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE PHOTOGRAMMÉTRIE ET DE TÉLÉDÉTECTION

Welcome to the ISPRS Ad-hoc Group on Standards

Terms of Reference

Analysis of the requirements for standardized image data exchange formats
Characterization of a universal sensor model
Development of a metadata standard which includes all necessary sensor parameters within their technical and their application environment
Cooperation with ISO/Technical Committee 211 (ISO/TC 211) and with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

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Coming events in the standardization business

9 - 12 July 2007	OGC/TC	Enghien-les-Bains, France	OGC
29 Oct - 2 Nov 2007	ISO/TC 211 plenary	Xi'an, China	ISO/TC 211
17 - 20 September 2007	OGC/TC	Boulder, Co, U.S.A.	OGC
26 - 30 May 2008	ISO/TC 211 plenary	Copenhagen, Denmark	ISO/TC 211
3 - 11 July 2008	XXI. ISPRS Congress	Beijing, China	XXI. ISPRS congress

At the XXI. ISPRS congress sessions on standardization will be held by the Ad-hoc Group on Standards, by EuroSDR and others.

For information please contact: kresse@hs-nb.de

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Interesting links to standardization sites

International organizations

ISO/TC 211 "Geographic information / Geomatics" (ISO/TC 211)
International standardization for geographic information

Joint Technical Committee (ISO/IEC JTC1)
Jointly led by ISO and IEC (electrotechnical standards); responsable for all standards in computer science

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Most important industry consortium for geographic information

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites(CEOS)
Civil remote sensing activities

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
Expert group of remote sensing with a background in electrotechnical engineering

International Cartographic Organization (ICA)
Cartography

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Industry consortium working on most of the Internet standards

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG)
This group publishes the most comprehensive coding system for coordinate reference systems

Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG)
GIS-group of NATO and some other countries (military applications)

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
Hydrographical charts and safety in navigation

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Air navigation

International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
Surveying and cadastre

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)
Mainly commercial group promoting global spatial data infrastructures

UN Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG)
UN-group to promote the use of geographic information

International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM)
Improve environmental protection and disaster management by global mapping

Regional activities

CEN/TC 287 "Geographic information"
European standardization of geographic information (CEN = Comité Européen de Normalisation)

Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP)
China, India, Japan, Iran, Australia and other countries are active in this group

Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Research centre of the European Union with focus on remote sensing and spatial data infrastructures

The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE)
This projects is steering the development of the European spatial data infrastructure

European Spatial Data Research (EuroSDR)
Expert group representing national governments and universities, mainly in photogrammetry and GIS
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European Geographics (EuroGeographics)
Expert group representing national governments and universities, mainly in cartography and coordinate reference systems

Joint Research Centre (EUROGI)
European umbrella organisation for geographic information

National standardization bodies

Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación (AENOR)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR)

Austrian Standards Institute (ON)

British Standards Institute (BSI)

Czech Standards Institute (CSI)

Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN)

Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT)

State Committee of the Russian Federation for Standardization (GOST)

Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación (ICONTEC)

Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC)

Korea Agency for Technology and Standards

Hungarian Standards Institute (MSZT)

Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut (NEN)

Standardization in Norway (NSF)

South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

Standardization Administration of China (SAC)

Standards Australia (SAI)

Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

Finnish Standards Association (SFS)

Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV)

Standards New Zealand (SNZ)

Slovak Standards Institute (SUTN)

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Chairpersons

Chairman

Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kresse
Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture, Geoinformatics, Surveying, and Civil Engineering and Surveying
Hochschule Neubrandenburg, University of Applied Sciences
Brodaer Strasse 2, D-17033 Neubrandenburg, Germany

Tel: +49-395-5693-355
Fax: +49-395-5693-399
Email: kresse@hs-nb.de (http://www.hs-nb.de )

Co-chairman

Secretary

Dipl.-Ing. Michael Hohm
Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying
Hochschule Neubrandenburg, University of Applied Sciences
Brodaer Strasse 2, D-17033 Neubrandenburg, Germany

Tel: +49-395-5693-374
Fax: +49-395-5693-399
Email: hohm@hs-nb.de (http://www.hs-nb.de )

This page was supported by the Hochschulrechenzentrum of the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg