[OGC Press Release] Charles Roswell Receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award

[OGC Press Release]

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach at opengeospatial.org

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Wayland, MA, USA, August 7, 2007. At the July meeting of the Open
Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) in Paris, France, Charles Roswell
received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award, the first ever granted by
the OGC.

Charles Roswell has been an active participant in the OGC from the
Consortium's beginning. Through his decades of experience in
geospatial standards in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(NGA) and its predecessor organizations, and at NATO, Roswell
anticipated the need for interoperability standards like those that
have been developed in the OGC, and he has been a key factor in making
these standards a reality.

While representing the NGA in the Federal Geographic Data Committee
(FGDC), working on the NSDI Framework, Roswell became involved with
the OGC in the Consortium's first year and he promoted FGDC
involvement. Roswell has continued to serve as ambassador and
"connector," facilitating inter-organizational cooperation.
He was a main contributor to the successful relationships between OGC,
ISO TC211 and ANSI/INCITS L1. As the International Representative for
INCITS L1 to ISO/TC211, Roswell has led the United States Delegation
in ISO TC211, advancing both diplomacy and technology.

Roswell made significant contributions to the development of the
abstract model for Coverages. Bridging the conceptual gap between
discrete vector based GIS and gridded remote sensed imagery, Coverages
has matured into a joint OGC/ISO abstract specification and it also
provides the basis for key OpenGIS® Specifications.

Mark Reichardt, president of OGC, said, "In addition to being a
consistent advocate for collaboration, Charles has earned the respect
and admiration of OGC members for his careful and thorough
articulation of interoperability requirements, as well as his
authorship of and review of OGC documentation. The framework of OGC
and ISO standards has benefited deeply from Charles' commitment
and leadership over the past decade."

The OGC® is an international industry consortium of more than 340
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available interface specifications. OpenGIS® Specifications
support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web,
wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The
specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial
information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of
applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org.