Re: Metadata on sensor, actuator or sampler [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Dirk,

There has been a lot of work that has been done within the World Meteorological Organisation to describe the context within which an observation has been made. This includes 'metadata' describing the sensor, observation procedure etc.

This work is referred to as the WIGOS Metadata Standard [1]. This work has now been approved as a WMO Standard.

I hope that this helps.

Kind regards,

Bruce

[1] https://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1160_en.pdf#page=48


From: Dirk Jan Venema <D.Venema@geonovum.nl<mailto:D.Venema@geonovum.nl>>
Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 19:42
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Subject: Metadata on sensor, actuator or sampler
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Hi SDW - SSN,

I have been following the SSN developments for the last couple of months and I have not found much on metadata of the actual sensor. Contrary to O&M and ISO19115 which is metadata on the observations or measurements, I mean the metadata on a physical sensor, actuator or sampler. For example as is done in SensorML, see: http://www.sensorml.com/sensorML-2.0/examples/metadata..html. This could be metadata such as: name of the sensor, type, manufacturer, electrical requirements, start time, or measurement properties. Has any work been done on aligning SOSA to SWE / SensorML, or are there other options to link to metadata of a sensor, actuator or sampler?

Any insight is greatly appreciated.



Kind regards,

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