Source:
ERCIM News, Issue 79, p.48-49 (2009)
ISBN:
ISSN 0926-4981
URL:
http://ercim-news.ercim.org/images/stories/EN79/EN79-web.pdf
Keywords:
SANY; Sensors Anywhere; Air Quality; best practices; INSPIRE; Clean Air For Europe; CAFE reporting; Sensor Web Enablement
Abstract:
Two European research projects, SANY (Sensors Anywhere) and the Austrian INSPIRE CAFE prototype are currently testing the usability of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite for CAFE (Clean Air For Europe) and INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community), by developing a prototype air quality reporting system in accordance with the CAFE directive. Unlike the Web Feature Service, which excels at geographic features, the SWE services and encodings help to model the world from a sensor-centric view, with each observed value being associated with a geographic and temporal position, as well as the unit of measurement, data quality value, and process description.
Notes:
All parties interested in the use of SensorSA and OGC SWE in the context of CAFE and INSPIRE are invited to join the final SANY event and SP4 demonstration on November 19th in Linz.
