GISCafe Weekly Review : September 23, 2022

First of its kind initiative seeks participants for an ongoing series of activities involving climate data geospatial services analytical functions, capabilities, use cases, and more.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for the OGC Climate Resilience Pilot, a collaborative activity recognizing geospatial climate information use cases, services and visualization capabilities available, and important next steps. Selected participants will be provided funding for their time and effort through OGC’s own Strategic Members. The call for participants ends on November 18, 2022, and is available here.

The pilot will be the first phase of multiple long term climate activities aiming to evolve geospatial data, technologies, and other capabilities into valuable information for decision makers, scientists, policy makers, data providers, software developers, and service providers so we can make valuable, informed decisions to improve climate action. The goal is to help the location community develop more powerful visualization and communication tools to accurately address ongoing climate threats such as heat, drought, floods, fires as well as supporting the national determined contributions for greenhouse gas emission reduction. Climate resilience is often considered the use case of our lifetime, and the OGC community is uniquely positioned to accelerate solutions through collective problem solving with this initiative.