Selected Conventions, based on Content Standard, Sensor
For a complete listing, please see Vocabularies & Standards References
Title | Description | Reference Type | Reference Topic |
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| Directory Interchange Format | The Directory Interchange Format, or DIF, was developed to catalog earth and atmospheric resources.
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| FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata | DescriptionCSDGM is applicable to any geospatial data. Its goal is to define the information required by a prospective user to determine the availability of a set of geospatial data, the fitness the set of geospatial data for an intended use, and the means of accessing the set of geospatial data, and to enable successful transfer. It was developed in response to Presidential Executive Order 12906, "Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure". TypeContent Standard | ||
| IEEE 1451 | There is no strong center of the IEEE 1451 web presence, but a google search on "IEEE 1451" finds many interesting and useful references. IEEE 1451 is a comprehensive, extremely detailed standard for describing sensors and actuators (together, "transducers"). From the web site: | ||
| ISO 19115 Metadata Standard for Geographic Information | |||
| Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115 | |||
| N4242 XML based standard | This standard specifies the XML data format that shall be used for both required and optional data to be made available by radiation instruments. The purpose of the ANSI N42.42 standard is to facilitate manufacturer-independent transfer of information from radiation measurement instruments for use in Homeland Security. | ||
| OceanSITES NetCDF Convention | OceanSITES is a project to assimilate measurements from long-term ocean reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters. The OceanSITES data managment team has developed specific guidance for the implementation of netCDF conventions. TypeContent Standard | ||
| Remote Sensing Extension to FGDC CSDGM | This extension includes metadata elements necessary to describe data obtained through remote sensing. The metadata elements include those describing the sensor, the platform, the method and process of deriving geospatial information from the raw telemetry, and the information needed to determine the geographical location of the remotely sensed data. Metadata elements to support aggregation are also supported. | ||
| SensorML | A mature and active specification. The model is presented in several different forms (graphical, XML schema), with lots of documentation, and so should be useful to most developers. The following description was taken from the web site on 2004.11.20. Purpose: SensorML provides the models and XML schema encoding for defining the geometric, dynamic, and observational characteristics of a sensor. The purpose of SensorML is: | ||
| TransducerML | TML is a digital data structure that permits streaming and is used to exchange data between a sensor and a processor. TML is an XML based specification that describes how to capture and time tag sensor data. It also includes a complete description of the data. Since TML is self-contained, a TML enabled processor is able to process data from any sensor without any additional information. |
