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cal Committees on how to proceed. The advisory groups do not belong to the Working Groups; theyare directly responsible to the Technical Committee and support the
chairman. The Technical Committee has also created a Harmonized Model Maintenance Group (HMMG) that is working on the integration of all partly incompatible
models ofthe ISO 19100 standards.
The ISO/TC21I has no Subcommittees (as ofSeptember, 2003).
Statistics
The work ofISO/TC211 can be described in the following numbers (June 2003):
ISO-deliverables
Total of 40 standardisation projects
7 International Standards (lS) completed
11 standardisation projects in the stages Draft International Standard (DIS) or
Final Draft International Standard (FDIS)
2 Technical Reports (TR)
1 Review Summary (RS)
1 standardisation project withdrawn
Presently 18 projects still active
1st International Standard: ISO 19105:2000 (Conformance and testing)
1st Technical Report: ISO/TR 19121 :2000 (lmagery and gridded data)
Members
29 P-members
270-members
22 Externailiaison members
11 Internailiaison members
2 Relations to CEN Technical Committees (Europe)
2 Advisory groups and three other groups
About 600 individuals involved since 1994
Meetings
16 Plenary meetings until May, 2003
Program of work
In 1994, the ISO/TC211 started with only 20 standardisation projects. These
formed a suite of base standards for geographie information and thus made the
Technical Committee a coherent and powerful group. Some experts consider these
abstract base standards as the original obligation of the ISO/TC211. The base standards included: the reference model, feature definition, spatial and temporal schema,
Coordinate Reference System, portrayal, encoding, quality, and metadata, to mention
the most important ones. The majority of the base standards have reached a final
stage of development.
2 Geomatics standards
cal Committees on how to proceed. The advisory groups do not belong to the Working Groups; theyare directly responsible to the Technical Committee and support the
chairman. The Technical Committee has also created a Harmonized Model Maintenance Group (HMMG) that is working on the integration of all partly incompatible
models ofthe ISO 19100 standards.
The ISO/TC21I has no Subcommittees (as ofSeptember, 2003).
Statistics
The work ofISO/TC211 can be described in the following numbers (June 2003):
ISO-deliverables
Total of 40 standardisation projects
7 International Standards (lS) completed
11 standardisation projects in the stages Draft International Standard (DIS) or
Final Draft International Standard (FDIS)
2 Technical Reports (TR)
1 Review Summary (RS)
1 standardisation project withdrawn
Presently 18 projects still active
1st International Standard: ISO 19105:2000 (Conformance and testing)
1st Technical Report: ISO/TR 19121 :2000 (lmagery and gridded data)
Members
29 P-members
270-members
22 Externailiaison members
11 Internailiaison members
2 Relations to CEN Technical Committees (Europe)
2 Advisory groups and three other groups
About 600 individuals involved since 1994
Meetings
16 Plenary meetings until May, 2003
Program of work
In 1994, the ISO/TC211 started with only 20 standardisation projects. These
formed a suite of base standards for geographie information and thus made the
Technical Committee a coherent and powerful group. Some experts consider these
abstract base standards as the original obligation of the ISO/TC211. The base standards included: the reference model, feature definition, spatial and temporal schema,
Coordinate Reference System, portrayal, encoding, quality, and metadata, to mention
the most important ones. The majority of the base standards have reached a final
stage of development.