Wayland, Mass., 21 January 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC®) announces adoption and availability of the OGC Earth
Observation (EO) Application Profile for the OGC Catalogue Services -
Web (CSW) Specification 2.0.2. The EO-CSW standard will benefit a wide
range of stakeholders involved in the provision and use of data
generated by satellite-borne and aerial radar, optical and atmospheric
sensors.

The EO-CSW standard describes a set of interfaces, bindings and
encodings that can be implemented in catalog servers that data
providers will use to publish collections of descriptive information
(metadata) about Earth Observation data and services. Developers can
also implement this standard as part of Web clients that enable data
users and their applications to very efficiently search and exploit
these collections of Earth Observation data and services.

The standard is available at:
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=15547 .

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 385
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support
interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wireless and
location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
technology developers to make geospatial information and services
accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org.