Sensor

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.

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.

CIMA Ontology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:17:00 -0800

CIMA is aimed at "Grid enabling" instruments as real-time data sources to improve accessibility of instruments and to facilitate their integration into the Grid. They are developing semantic metadata (in OWL/RDF) using a web-based tool, so that the semantic metadata can be used to drive the WSDL/SOAP middleware.

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.

Directory Interchange Format

swatson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:31:00 -0800

The Directory Interchange Format, or DIF, was developed to catalog earth and atmospheric resources.
URLs:

DIF Writer's Guide
What is a DIF (a short history of DIF)

Type
Content Standard

FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

swatson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:08:00 -0800

Description

CSDGM 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".

Type

Content 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.

GEOSS Workshop: The User and the GEOSS Architecture XVI "Regional Decisions for Climate Change"

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:46:00 -0800

Start: September 21, 2007

End: September 22, 2007

This workshop will address how the GEOSS Architecture will support citizens and policy makers in making local decisions based upon predictions of global climate change. Recognizing that the science to predict local changes is still advancing the workshop will define methods that GEOSS methods for users now and in the future to refine their understanding and the effects of global climate change on local decisions.

Global Change Master Directory Keywords

swatson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:21:00 -0800

A hierarchical list of keywords to the variable level (groupings: science, services, projects, instruments, platforms, locations), the GCMD keywords are used in many contexts. The keywords are updated with new submissions through a fairly informal process.

IEEE 1451

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

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:

International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

carynn — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:50:00 -0800

Start: April 22, 2008

End: April 24, 2008

International Workshop: Sensing a Changing World

carynn — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:43:58 -0700

Start: November 19, 2008

End: November 21, 2008

From the workshop website:

Current developments in sensor technology provide increasing opportunities to analyze human behavior and monitor environmental processes in a changing world.

ISDM Instrument Code List

kwalz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:59:00 -0800

ISDM uses a two-letter code for instruments.

ISO 19115 Metadata Standard for Geographic Information

swatson — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:10:00 -0800

Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115

glr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

MMI Ontologies Development Work

graybeal — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:46:00 -0800

(More context will be provided as time allows.)

MMI Sensors Ontology: A Community Development Project

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:12:00 -0800

Description

MMI has begun development of an ontology aimed at classifying sensor/device types, and possibly extending into more detailed sensor terminology. This project is being developed by interested members of the marine science and data community. See the project web site for details.

MMI Workshop Sensors Ontology

graybeal — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:56:00 -0700

This outline was developed by participants in the MMI Advancing Domain Vocabularies workshop in 2005. It is a top-level outline of sensor types, organized by measurement technique. Although it never moved beyond the preliminary stage, it is moderately comprehensive.

More Sensor Terms

graybeal — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:32:00 -0700

From Jer Hayes:

rumbleometer
salinometer
spectrophotometer
cytometer
penetrometer
velocimeter
spectroradiometer

Original email:

Ontology for Devices

N4242 XML based standard

swatson — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:39:00 -0800

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.

NASA Instrument Taxonomy

graybeal — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:15:00 -0800

Description
The instrument vocabulary results from an extended taxonomy development effort over multiple years, in this domain and others.

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.

Publication 47: WMO Codes for Instruments and Methods on Ships

luisBer — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:32:00 -0800

The code tables in this document contain a reasonably comprehensive list of data collection platforms and sensors.
The codes are in Annex 4, Code Tables. Code tables of interest for sensor types are 102, 202, 802, 1501, and 2002. Code tables of interest for platform types are 2201, 2202.

Remote Sensing Extension to FGDC CSDGM

swatson — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:07:00 -0800

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.

SeaDataNet Sensor Vocabularies

graybeal — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:41:00 -0800

SeaDataNet Project
SeaDataNet Vocabulary Server A client presenting the vocabularies of SeaDataNet via web interfaces
SeaDataNet sample collector categories Terms used to describe groups of devices that collect water, suspended matter, sediment, rock, air or biota samples.

Sensor Categorization in ASCII from the MMI workshop

luisBer — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:33:00 -0700

Click here to get the file

Ontology for Devices

Sensor Metadata Interoperability

graybeal — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:54:00 -0800

This MMI project is a work in progress, intended to pull together the relevant information to maximize progress toward sensor metadata interoperability. Links will be added to this page as material is developed.

Concepts we hope to address include:

Resource Selection

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:

SIO/GDC Vocabulary Terms

graybeal — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:14:00 -0800

Controlled Vocabulary utilized in SIOExplorer, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Geological Data Center (SIO/GDC). Includes listing of terms for various parameters in the GDC scheme.

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.

Strategies for Maximizing Sensor Interoperability

carynn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:55:09 -0700

Even though no single organization is anointed as the coordinator for marine sensor interoperability, there are many straightforward strategies that can be pursued to maximize the interoperability of these sensors. All the players in the life cycle of a sensor can contribute small pieces to increasing sensor interoperabilty, both for their own project and for the entire community.

Sensor Interoperability

Strategy for Data Sources 2006

luisBer — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:50:00 -0800

View the list of documents related to this activity.

Power Point presentaion at AGU

Ontology for Platforms

Symposium on Environmental Sensor Networks

carynn — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:52:00 -0800

Start: December 3, 2007

End: December 6, 2007

The MMI Workshop: Sensor Metadata Interoperability

graybeal — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:09:00 -0800

Workshop Report Released! The Sensor Metadata Interoperability Workshop Report has been released (Details...) (Download report)

TransducerML

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

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.

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.

Vocabularies on SeaDataNet Web

kwalz — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:46:00 -0800

The following vocabularies are available:

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.