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.

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.

GCMD Platform Keywords

kwalz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:48:00 -0800

The Global Change Master Directory (GMCD) maintains a list of platform keywords (short names and long names). The majority of this list contains satellites and space stations. All ships are covered under the single keyword SHIPS.

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.

ISDM Code Lists

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

ISDM has published a set of various code lists, including activity codes, country codes, data type codes, digit codes, instrument type codes, and sampling technique codes. See the link below for a complete list, and access to the various vocabularies.

MGD77: Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0800

MGD77 is an exchange format for marine geophysical data (bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity). It is intended to be used for the transmission of data to and from a data center and may be useful for the exchange of data to and from a data center and may be useful for the exchange of data between marine institutions.

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.

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

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 Platform Type Codes (copy)

graybeal — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:53:00 -0800

The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) code list contains a list of platform codes. To assure preservation and for local reference, we have copied it here.

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.

SeaDataNet Platform Type

kwalz — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:24:00 -0800

SeaDataNet uses 4-character (alphanumeric combinations) assignments for platform type.

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

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.

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