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52°North recently attended the OGC Web Services (OWS) 9 kickoff meeting in Washington, DC. This year’s testbeds cover 3 Acitivity Threads. 52°North contributes to the Aviation, Cross-Community Interoperability and Compliance (CITE) threads.

• Aviation: 52°North’s task is to work on WPS implementation and documentation with respect to closing the gaps in the current specification. Particular focus is on on-demand processing of aviation data as an addition to the previously exercised data centric focus in the aviation domain.
• Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI): Data fusion and data provenance are the focus of 52°North’s activities. 52°North tackles the problems of merging geometries from various data sources and documenting the original data sources.
• Compliance (CITE): The 52N SOS 2.0 and 52N SPS 2.0 will be tested to become reference implementations.

Results are due in the fall of 2012.