SOS 2.0 Tutorial
Contributing authors: Arne Bröring (52North), Christoph Stasch (IfGI), Johannes Echterhoff (igsi)
Last update: 18th of January 2012
The Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0 is an approved Open Geospatial Consortium standard. The standard defines a common web service interface for the retrieval of real time or archived data produced by all kinds of sensors like mobile or stationary as well as in-situ or remote sensors.
The sensor data are either observations or metadata of the sensors containing information like calibration information, positions, etc. Observations are returned encoded as O&M Observations, while information about sensors are returned encoded in SensorML. Used in conjunction with these OGC standards and other OGC specifications, the SOS provides a broad range of interoperable capability for discovering, binding to and interrogating individual sensors, sensor platforms, or networked constellations of sensors in real-time, archived or simulated environments.
This page aims to provide an overview on the data encodings in which data is provided by SOS and on the operations provided by a SOS inteface.
To learn about the data models and encodings used by the SOS, go to the following sub-pages:
The following sub-pages describe the operations of the SOS and its functionality:
- How to retrieve information about the content (i.e. observations, features, sensors) provided by a SOS 2.0?
- How to retrieve observations, features of interest and sensor metadata?
- How to insert new sensors and observations?
- How to retrieve plain observation results in case of limited bandwith?
- How to insert plain observation results in case of limited bandwith?