The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) hosted a compelling demonstration of the power of geospatial interoperability for attendees at the inaugural European Defense Geospatial Intelligence Conference (DGI) held in late January in London. They presented a hypothetical threat scenario designed to highlight how open standards can enable discovery, access, and fusion of multiple, diverse spatial data and services into an integrated framework for enhanced decision support.
Research from Conference organizers, Worldwide Business Research, based on input from 84 key geospatial experts across Europe and the U.S. indicates that interoperability is the number one challenge facing geospatial imagery, analysis and data management professionals.
