Source:
iEMSs 2008: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Volume 3, Barcelona, Spain, p.1901-04 (2008)
URL:
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/W01-03-Havlik_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf
Keywords:
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), OGC Sensor Web Enablement (OGCSWE), SANY IP, ORCHESTRA IP, Sensor Observation Service (SOS), cascading SOS, translating SOS, UWEDAT, Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), Global Monitoring for Environment an
Abstract:
Austrian Research Centres (ARC) participates in development of the IT-infrastructure,
architecture and services capable of addressing this challenge in the context of risk
management through ORCHESTRA IP (http://www.eu-orchestra.org/), and in the context
of environmental monitoring networks through SANY IP (http://sany-ip.eu/).
In order to minimize the cost associated with "bridging the technology gaps" between the
networks, ORCHESTRA proposes an abstract architecture and a methodology for mapping
this abstract architecture onto the technical platform of choice. At the level of information
exchange, ORCHESTRA demands self-description of all services and data offered in a
network. In particular: "all meta-information MUST be provided at least in a form suitable
for interpretation by humans"; "syntactic meta-information MUST also be provided in a
form suitable for interpretation by machines"; and "providing semantic meta-information in
a form suitable for interpretation by machines (e.g. by means of an ontology) is highly
encouraged" [Schimak (Ed.), 2007].
An analysis of the service specifications developed by Open Geospatial Consortium
"Sensor Web Enablement" working group (OGC SWE; see
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sensorweb) performed by SANY IP [Havlik
et. al 2007; Bartha,(ed.), 2006] has shown that OGC SWE services are both very generic
and compatible with the ORCHESTRA architectural model [Usländer, 2007].
Consequently, SANY IP decided to embrace the OGC SWE service interfaces as they are,
and concentrate on implementing the advanced "GEOSS (software) building blocks",
extending the functionality and optimizing the overall sensor network performance. One
such "building block", which will be firstly discussed at this workshop, is the advanced
cascading SOS service (SOS-X).
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