SANY Sensors Anywhere

Following illustration shows the resource types of the so called SANY Application Schema for Meta-information. Each resource type supports mandatory meta-information sections (table of contents and core elements) containing common meta-information elements like ‘title’, ‘keywords’ or ‘source url’. Further meta-information can be provided by specifying optional sections. This has been used for the description of the new resource types. Additionally the ‘Procedure’ resource type supports a SensorML section for a detailed description of sensors.

To support the possibilities of the SANY meta-information schema for the discovery process, the SensorSA Catalogue supports following search criteria ("queryables"):

• ‘FeatureOfInterest’ allows search for specific feature of interests, like a specific test region.
  
• ‘ObservedProperty’ allowa search for general phenomena, like ‘urn:ogc:phenomenon:temperature’.
  
• ‘Procedure’ supporting the possibility to search for general sensor types (e.g. accelerometer) and sensor instances.
  
• ‘DatasetType’ allows search for specific resource types like ‘Feature of Interest’, ‘Observed Property’ or ‘Procedure’.