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Article: OGC to Support JRC/USGS Cooperative Technology Effort.
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- January 16, 2002
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WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2002
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that OGC's organizational processes and technical approaches will be key elements in a new joint project of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the US Geological Survey (USGS). This project, focused on removing technical obstacles to sharing earth observation data, is a direct result of the 1997 US and European Science and Technology Agreement concerning Earth Observation Technology Development and Application Research, and a subsequent 1999 cooperative arrangement between JRC and USGS.
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