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Welcome to 52°North

52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH is an international research and development company whose mission is to promote the conception, development and application of free open source geo-software for research, education, training and practical use. 52°North backs an open initiative, which is driven by leading research organizations and individuals in the international GIS field. Cooperation partners participate in research and development with focii on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), Web Security and Geo-Rights Management, as well as Geo-Processing .

The work of our partners results in a collection of Java and C++ based web services implementations. Our software is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL), but is also available via a dual licensing model for those who would like to tightly integrate our software into their own commercial software products.
 

Sensor Web Community

We focus on the development of a broad range of services and encoding implementations related to Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), as well as multi functional clients to access all of these services.

Security & Geo-RM Community

We provide ready-to-use software, as well as prototype implementions to enable interoperable business and access control process for geospatial services and spatial data infrastructures.

Geoprocessing Community

We aim to design a pluggable web service architecture for orchestrating and executing geo-processes, as well as research GRID based and spatio-temporal data analysis processing techniques.

ILWIS Community

We strive to advance ILWIS into re-usable, interoperable web services, as well as to further it as client software in a distributed service environment (SDI).
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