Goals
• Determine requirements for O&M within INSPIRE• Provide recommendations for– Observations on INSPIRE features– Referencing of observations from INSPIRE features– Use of elements of Sensor Web Enablement
D2.9 Guidelines for the use of Observations & Measurements and Sensor Web Enablement-related standards in INSPIRE Annex II and III data specification development
Overview Thematic Areas
• Geology (GE)• Oceanographic geographical features (OF)• Atmospheric conditions and Meteorological
geographical features (AC-MF)• Environmental monitoring facilities (EF)• Soil (SO)
Other Thematic Areas• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units: Not
mentioned but relevant for reporting• Land cover: Mentions observation date for LC type• Natural risk zones: Not in model, but use case states: "Monitoring data:
– Type of monitoring instrumentation– Location of sampling measurements– Type and record of measurements"
• Human Health: Health determinants• Production and industrial facilities: Not mentioned but relevant for E-PRTR• Statistical units & Population distribution, demography: StatisticalDataValue
looks a bit like OM_Observation, SU would also make sense• Utility and governmental services: Statement "Non-geographic data (e.g.
information on flow in m³/s) is also out of scope of this specification"• Habitats and biotopes & Species distribution: Observation Aggregation can
be data source, no direct link to observations
Design Patters by Result Type
• Result/Coverage-centric view– Coverages are “first class citizens”– Description of observation process metadata of result– Provide Observation information as metadata
• MI_Metadata: acquisition source• OM_Observation• ObservingCapability
• Observation-centric view– observations are “first-class citizens”– result ~ “metadata”– Use O&M
Observation refers to Feature
• EnvironmentalFeatureReference Class• Can be used in the Observation Parameter
Feature of Interest
• Often sampling features are defined without a sampled feature to put the feature in reference
• Recommendation: provide sampled feature• High level sampling features: could be taken from the
Sweet realms ontology
Procedure - Process Parameters
• Observation can carry parameters • Define which parameters in
INSPIRE_OM_Process• “Informal” constraint that all Observation
parameters should be specified as process parameters in the procedure
Note: not formal constraint because would modify O&M
Procedure - Process Parameters
• Results of related "observations": – water hardness of river– width of river at measurement point
• Temporal information – Analysis Time – Forecast period
• Instrument settings – sampling rate– minimum & maximum offset
• Ensemble Member
Result Encoding
• Allow for industry standards for result encoding – i.e. NetCDF, SEG-Y, LAS, WITSML
• Result should include basic information on type of external result + link to result
• Use design pattern from CSML
Observing Capability
Requirement to attach information on measurements to a feature
Class ObservingCapabilityProvide information on • What• Where• How