GeoRoundtable

Current Activities and Developments 

• Spatial Web Foundation:  Distinguished Engineering Fellow 

  • Spatial Web and Digital Twins: ILIAD Webinar with IEEE P2874 overview

  • Using Hypergraphs in the Spatial Web

• IEEE Spatial Web Protocol, Architecture and Governance: Vice Chair

  • Join the IEEE Spatial Web Working Group; subscribe to the mailing list

• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Standards Committee, Vice Chair

  • Analysis-Ready Data and FAIR-AI—Standardization of Research Collaboration and Transparency Across Earth-Observation Communities, GRSS Magazine, June 2023

  • IGARSS 2023: ARD, FAIR EARTH OBSERVATION PRINCIPLES, DATA FUSION: WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?

  • IGARSS 2023: GRSS ENTERPRISE MODEL: STRUCTURING A DISCUSSION ABOUT STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES

• Augmented Reality/XR Technology by Ethar : Advisor

  • First ever AR open standard, multi-vendor demo, MWC 2015 

Contact George Percivall mailto:percivall@ieee.org 

Links

• GeoRoundtable on LinkedIn

• Twitter

• IEEE Xplore

• Google Scholar

• Slideshare 

Blogs

• ApacheCon Geospatial Track session

• Remote Sensing and Analysis Ready Data 

• Spatial Computing: current, emerging, long-term

• Innovation, Maturation and Adaptation for Standards Development

• Urban Digital Twins Deployment

• OGC Tech Trends Update

• Innovations and Standards: a complex adaptive system perspective

• Interoperability Program: "Innovation in OGC"

GeoRoundtable is a consultancy to facilitate geospatial technology development.  GeoRoundtable is builds on:  1) geospatial technology expertise based on NASA projects (EOS, ESTO, Digital Earth), geo standards (IEEE, ISO/IEC/ITU, OGC), computer engineering, and remote sensing; 2) Roundtable facilitation expertise based on leadership of numerous international, open workshops; and St John's College seminar methodology.

Previous Technology Leadership

• NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) 

• Open Geospatial Consortium

  • Urban Digital Twins

  • Geospatial Data Science

  • Geospatial Fusion

  • Sensor Web Enablement

  • Augmented Reality

• NASA Digital Earth Office

  • Geography of Digital Earth

  • WMS Global Mosaic: world's first online global mosaic; United Nations, Dec 2002

• NASA Mission to Planet Earth

  • "Application Of Complexity Theories To Evolutionary System Development", The Evolution of Complexity, 1995

  • Iterative development for large information systems (ECS Evaluation Packages, EO Observer, 1994)

• General Motors Systems Engineering

  • National Automated Highway System Consortium

  • GM EV1 Electric Vehicle Program: Vehicle System Engineer, Vehicle Technical Specification

  • Systems engineering in the automotive industry. NCOSE Annual Conference 1992

• Hughes Aircraft Space and Communication satellites

  • GOES/GMS weather satellites