Web Service
The 52°North Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
supports the interoperable provision of live and archived sensor observation
data. A sensor could be a water level meter in a stream, a weather station, or
an air quality monitoring station.
Features
- Implements the SOS 1.0.0 and 2.0.0 standards.
- A browser based client provides means for administration and provides test
queries for all supported operations.
SOS Operations
Queries:
- GetCapabilities: for requesting a self-description of the service.
- DescribeSensor: for requesting information about the sensor.
- GetFeatureOfInterest / GetFeatureOfInterestTime (1.0): for requesting features (e.g. sensor/measurement locations).
- GetObservationById / GetObservation (1.0): for requesting observations.
- GetResult: for requesting sensor data.
- GetResultTemplate (from 2.0): for requesting a template of the result structure that
will be returned by a GetResult request.
- GetDataAvailability (from 2.0): for requesting the data availability for certain
configurations.
Transactions:
- InsertSensor (from 2.0) / RegisterSensor (1.0): for inserting metadata of new sensors.
- InsertObservation, for inserting new observations.
- UpdateSensorDescription (from 2.0): for updating the description of a sensor.
- DeleteSensor (from 2.0): for deleting a sensor/procedure and all related offerings
and observations.
- DeleteObservation (from 2.0): for deleting an observation.
- InsertResultTemplate (from 2.0): for inserting a result template.
- InsertResult (from 2.0): for inserting results.
Within these operations the following filter operators are possible where
applicable:
- Spatial filter: BBOX, using a bounding box.
- Temporal filter: During, with time period.
- Temporal filter: TEquals, with time instant.
