Observations and Measurements

OpenGIS Observations and Measurements Encoding Standard

The OpenGIS® Observations and Measurements Encoding Standard (O&M) defines an abstract model and an XML schema encoding for observations and for features involved in sampling when making observations.  it provides support for common sampling strategies.

While the O&M standard was developed in the context of geographic information systems, the model is not limited to spatial information. O&M is one of the core standards in the OGC Sensor Web Enablement suite, providing the response model for Sensor Observation Service (SOS) which scopes the SOS GetObservation request.

O&M also provides a general framework for systems that deal in technical measurements in science and engineering. This is one of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of standards.

A revision of O&M has been triggered by submission of OGC O&M to ISO/TC 211 as a proposed New Work Item. The Work Item has been assigned the number 19156.

Reference URLs: 
O&M at OGC
SWE at OGC
Sources for Content: 
O&M at wikipedia
O&M working group at OGC
O&M at OGC
Maturity Estimate: 
Emerging
Posted October 26th, 2009 by ngalbraith
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