Sensors, Instruments and Platforms

ACT Sensors List

graybeal — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:55:00 -0700

ACT has a searchable database of sensors used in coastal and ocean research and observing. The database is a living database; it is continually updated as new test results are available and as more information is provided on each sensor/instrument.

Argo Instrument List

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:54:00 -0800

(see Table 8, Page 50)

Argo instrument list contains 3-character number codes from 831-858 (14 instruments). From document: "The objective of Argo program is to operate and manage a set of 3000 floats distributed in all oceans, with the vision that the network will be a permanent and operational system."

Existing: The item is available for public use, has been released or widely adopted, and is sponsored or maintained.

Auxiliary Description of Instruments

graybeal — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:36:00 -0800

In order to support defining metadata for instruments, GCMD is working on a content standard called AD-I, for Auxiliary Description of Instruments. This standard would serve to extend the DIF metadata currently accepted.

AD-I was introduced in draft form for Track 1 DIF work of the MMI Sensors Metadata Interoperability workshop.

BODC Instruments List

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:53:00 -0800

The British Oceanographic Data Centre list of instrument terms.

CDI Sea Search Sensor and Platform Vocabularies

graybeal — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:30:00 -0800

Sea Search was a European data management initiative (ended in 2005). It was funded to develop and operate a pan-european infrastructure for ocean and marine data management, with many corresponding goals listed on the site.

Data Dictionary from SEACOOS

rkl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:52:00 -0800

Dictionary includes standard names that are coordinate-related, time_date names, atmospheric data, physical oceanographic, chemical oceanographic, electromagnetic radiation, ADCP, sensor-related, platform-related, M_aeri data-related, and navigation. For each name, there is a definition, short name, long name, data type, data class, units, axis, valid range, parameter reference, instrument general, equivalent standard name, and standard.

GCMD Sensors Vocabulary

graybeal — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:55:00 -0700

The GCMD (Global Change Master Directory) keyword vocabularies are maintained by NASA, and are fairly extensive. These keywords are used to reference data submitted to the NASA repository.

ICES-SeaDataNet Platform Code

kwalz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:46:00 -0800

The ICES-SeaDataNet platform code contains a 2-character country code (from ICES/ISO country code) followed by a 2-character vessel code. The vessel identifier is only unique in that country. As of late 2007, there are over 6000 codes for platforms around the world.

MMI Platforms Ontology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:11:00 -0800

Description

In 2006 MMI worked with volunteers to start developing a sensors and platforms ontology, using many other reference vocabularies but starting with a blank ontology. The first ontology that resulted is a platform ontology. Click on the link to the OWL file in Sourceforge to find the downloadable OWL file with this ontology.

NODC Codes for Biological Observations

kwalz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:02:00 -0800

This National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) document, dated 93/06/04, contains codes in many different domains associated with biological observations. Codes are 1, 2, or 3 characters.

Domains include:

NODC Sensors (Type) List

graybeal — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:40:30 -0700

The NODC instrument types list can be found by navigating to http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/search/prod/insttypes.pl and doing a search (with nothing entered).

A reference copy of the data has been attached in case this resource becomes unavailable.

OceanSITES NetCDF Convention

swatson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:52:00 -0800

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.

Type

Content Standard

Producer

The OceanSITES project.

Pine's SensorML Editor

carynn — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:29:47 -0700

From the User Manual

SensorML Editor is a program to assist SensorML researchers to explore and modify SensorML models. It provides the functions to navigate a SensorML model in tree structure, create new model, add\delete\modify existing model and export model in XML format.

SensorML

graybeal — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

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:

SSDS Sensor Types

graybeal — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:07:00 -0800

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been developing a sophisticated data system for many of its research platforms for some time. The data system has always described its data sources and platforms fairly thoroughly, and used a device type categorization to group the devices.

U.S. Globec Instrument Names

kwalz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:01:00 -0800

U.S. Globec Program maintains a Data Thesaurus. The Instrument Names have acronym-style codes or words assigned to each instrument. The list was based on preliminary guidelines from the JGOFS program.

WMO Codes for Temperature Sensors

luisBer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:13:00 -0800

The code tables in this document contain a very comprehensive list of temperature sensor types.