PIXIA Becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium



The Consortium’s Principal Members exercise influence over the development, release and adoption of OGC standards through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee. They also provide valuable industry expertise to support the forward-thinking market strategy of the consortium.

“PIXIA’s move to Principal Membership in the OGC reflects the importance of standards in the broader industry effort to turn image data into knowledge,” said Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC.  “Their technical commitment to the development and market application of open standards is deeply appreciated, and we are excited that they will be playing an increasing role in advancing the market and policy direction of the consortium as a Principal member.”

Rahul Thakkar, VP of Technology for PIXIA, said, “As the lead advocate for the WAMI web services specification, PIXIA has invested considerable effort in promoting OGC interoperability and research in innovative solutions.”   

About PIXIA

PIXIA provides high-performance scalable data access solutions for Big Data. Its core technology focuses on increased storage Input/Output (I/O), scalability and interoperability to power data to be accessed anywhere within a Cloud environment. Three product lines, HiPER LOOK©, HiPER STARE© and HiPER WATCHtm, provide a broad range of options to address geospatial and video enterprise storage needs.

PIXIA Corp. is a commercial software company based in Sterling, Virginia, USA. 

Learn more about PIXIA at http://www.pixia.com.

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