Oceans of Tomorrow sensor interoperability for in-situ ocean monitoring

The Oceans of Tomorrow (OoT) projects, funded by the European Commission’s FP7 program, are developing a new generation of sensors supporting physical, biogeochemical and biological oceanographic monitoring. The sensors range from acoustic to optical fluorometers to labs on a chip. The result is that the outputs are diverse in a variety of formats and communication methodologies. The interfaces with platforms such as floats, gliders and cable observatories are each different. Thus, sensorPeer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

D4.2. Observation inventory description and results report

The ConnectinGEO Observation Inventory (OI) is created and populated using the current information in the metadata concentrated in the GEO Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) to analyse the observations and measurements currently available in it. WP4 defined a high-level process for the population of the Observation Inventory: (i) retrieve the full metadata content for each record in the GEO DAB, (ii) extract/Infer extra semantics (connecting to external knowledge systems when needed), and (iii) generate enriched metadata and write it to the OI. The OI system architecture was designed and developed. The first version of the OI was created and populated using the current information in the metadata concentrated in the GEO DAB. The first population process was run in December 2015, resulting in a total of more than 1.6M harvested metadata records. The developed OI is accessible online and can be used as a data source by different analysis tools, which create plots, report, or summary statistics useful for the ConnectinGEO gap analysis. A simple Web Client was developed to demonstrate how to interrogate the OI and provide also basic examples of how the developed OI can be used by web-based analysis tools

Making the Sensor Observation Service INSPIRE Compliant

The Sensor Observation Service (SOS) [3] provides access to near real-time environmental data, or observations, in a standardized way. Thereby, the SOS offers flexible spatial, temporal, and thematic filtering capabilities that enable clients to query and discover large sources of time series data over the Web. The SOS standard is already in version 2.0 [6] and applied in many projects and organizational infrastructures (see e.g., [4]). The data encoding leveraged by SOS is the Observations & Measurements (O&M) standard, which is been introduced in the INSPIRE data specification through the Guidelines for the use of O&M. O&M data can also be accessed through the Web Feature Service (WFS), which has been incorporated in INSPIRE [2] as an implementation of the INSPIRE Download Service [1]. However, the WFS interface is very generic and not optimized for O&M data access. So, an inclusion of the SOS in the INSPIRE Technical Guidance (TG) is desired. Hence, this work analyses the SOS specification on how it can be enhanced to conform to the implementation rules for INSPIRE download services.JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat

Applying OGC sensor web enablement to ocean observing systems

The complexity of marine installations for ocean observing systems has grown significantly in recent years. In a network consisting of tens, hundreds or thousands of marine instruments, manual configuration and integration becomes very challenging. Simplifying the integration process in existing or newly established observing systems would benefit system operators and is important for the broader application of different sensors. This article presents an approach for the automatic configuration and integration of sensors into an interoperable Sensor Web infrastructure. First, the sensor communication model, based on OGC's SensorML standard, is utilized. It serves as a generic driver mechanism since it enables the declarative and detailed description of a sensor's protocol. Finally, we present a data acquisition architecture based on the OGC PUCK protocol that enables storage and retrieval of the SensorML document from the sensor itself, and automatic integration of sensors into an interoperable Sensor Web infrastructure. Our approach adopts Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) as alternative serialization form of XML or JSON. It solves the bandwidth problem of XML and JSON.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

RiBaSE : a pilot for testing the OGC web services integration of water-related information and models

The design of an interoperability experiment to demonstrate how current ICT-based tools and water data can work in combination with geospatial web services is presented. This solution is being tested in three transboundary river basins: Scheldt, Maritsa and Severn. The purpose of this experiment is to assess the effectiveness of OGC standards for describing status and dynamics of surface water in river basins, to demonstrate their applicability and finally to increase awareness of emerging hydrological standards as WaterML 2.0. Also, this pilot will help in identifying potential gaps in OGC standards in water domain applications, applied to a flooding scenario in present work

Deliverable D7.2. Observation networks tutorials and portfolio of best practices

Report on the collection of best practices and tools for observation networks and data exchange

D4.1. Observation inventory requirements, database schema and queryable fields

Report on the observation inventory requirements, database schema and queryable fields to be adopted during the project. The observation inventory will be based on GCI Information, DAB, and Copernicus services catalogues

D7.4 Strategic view for the sustainability of ENEON after the end of the project

EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation (SC5-18a-2014 - H2020)Project title: Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN situ to fill the Gaps in European ObservationsTheme: SC5-18a-2014. Coordinating European Observation Networks to reinforce the knowledge base for climate, natural resources and raw materials.Report with options for the continuation and sustainability of ENEON after the end of the project

D4.3 : Feedback system description and results report

Report on the description and results of the publicly sign-on accessible feedback system, based on a catalogue integrating the observation inventory