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2023 Edition


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first published week of:   02/27/2023

Steve Liang Receives OGC’s 2022 Gardels Award

by OGC

Congratulations to Steve Liang, awarded the 2022 Gardels Award for his work in sensor technologies for geospatial and pioneering web standards for publishing spatial data.

At the 125th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Member Meeting, held in Frascati, Italy, Steve Liang was presented the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award is presented each year to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to advancing OGC’s vision of building the future of location with community and technology for the good of society.

Steve Liang, Professor and Rogers IoT Research Chair at University of Calgary and Founder and CTO of SensorUp, was selected as the 2022 recipient because of his pioneering work in sensor technologies in the geospatial context.

A member of the nominating committee noted that Steve was “the first within OGC to come up with a more RESTful API and thus one of the pioneers of leveraging web standards for publishing spatial data.””Another committee member noted that Steve has “been a promoter for OGC for some time and has done an exceptional job promoting the OGC to the IoT world. Steve does a lot internally as well as externally as part of this promotion.”

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