1. www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Serving society Stimulating innovation Supporting legislation Meeting on OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) for INSPIRE Mickael Treguer, Thomas Loubrieu Ifremer (France)

2. Delivered content Ifremer manage marine and oceanographic datasets  Profiles: CTD, profiling floats (ARGO)  PointSeries: moorings, including moorings with different vertical levels  Trajectories: thermo-salinomers, gliders  Scanning radar: waves observation with Doppler  Swath: sea bottom observations with multi-beam echo sounder, satellite observation  Grid: analysis, climatologies, forecasts  Grid series: analysis, climatologies  Section: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, geoseismic profiles

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4. Technologies / software used In 2008 development of a prototype on marine time series with O&M results Connection of SOS (constellation project) to one of our thematic database experiences with 52°north deployment

5. Technologies / software used On-going development of operational version Oceanotron is a data server dedicated to marine in-situ observations dissemination

6. Technologies / software used Oceanotron focus on in-situ water column observations:  Profiles  PointSeries  Trajectories Development of the protocol SOS (2.0) by using opensource project ‘constellation’ : http://www.geomatys.com/en/applications/cstlsdi.html

7. Other download services available ‘Usual’ GIS format:  WFS (Mapserver/QGIS-Server) –example : seabed habitats  WCS (Mapserver/QGIS-Server) –example : scan, orthophoto…  WCS / Opendap (Thredds) –example : analysis, climatologies, forecasts In-situ data observation are available as  prepared dataset under ftp  dedicated web interface (no services)

8. Why an INSPIRE/SOS? Need:  Subseting of in-situ dataset  Advanced viewing services (need data to plot/graph)  Download services –mechanism are wanted to manage big volumes –asynchronous mechanism SOS interface has well-defined  temporal, spatial, and thematic filters  for near realtime environmental data

9. Technical issues (do you have recommendation?) Common vocabularies : platform types, observed properties, organizations, units … urn (+ urn resolver) vs url ? The NERC Vocabulary Server (NVS) has been used to publish controlled vocabularies of terms relevant to the marine environmental sciences domain http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/

10. Additional information (other project) Eurofleets : Pilot experiences to apply SWE technologies on-board. 'Real-time' links from sensors to data center (on-shore) : this means transactional functions for :  Sensor descriptions (SensorML) : events,history,calibration...  Sensor observations (O&M). Data models adapted to the marine observation data such as water column vertical profiles, time series, and vessel underway data.