Sensor Web Enablement White Papers, Cookbooks, and Reference Papers

The following references provide architecture documents and "how-to" articles for the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework.

White Papers

Sensor Web Enablement: Overview and High-Level Architecture (OGC 07-165)

Supporting Georeferenceable Imagery (OGC 08-071) - Public Engineering Report discussing the use of SWE and other OGC standards for supporting the distribution and georeferencing of ungeorectified imagery from remote sensors.

Cookbooks and Tutorials

Overview Tutorial on SWE - Tutorial/course was created and held by 52North for Geonovum

Using SensorML to Describe a Complete Weather Station (2006) - Pre-version 1.0 tutorial of describing sensor systems with SensorML

SOS 1.0 Perl Cookbook (ASCII and RDBMS) - OOSTethys

SOS 1.0 Java Toolkit - OOSTethys

SOS 1.0 Python Cookbook - OOSTethys

Reference Papers

OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards (Percival and Reed, 2006), Sensors and Transducers

Sensor Web's Point of Beginning (Reichardt, 2003), Geospatial Solutions

New Implementations of OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards (Bacharach, 2007) - Sensors [erratum: Figure 1 is actually from efforts by the University of Alabama in Huntsville along with NASA MSFC]

Sensor Web Enablement for Coastal Buoys (Ling, Durbha, King, 2006) - AGU

Video on Semantic Sensor Web (Henson, Sheth, Jain, Pschorr, Rapoch, 2007)

OGC Sensor Web Standards Show GeoINT Potential (Bacharach, 2007)

Open Sensor Web Architecture: Core Services (Chu, Kobialka, Durnota, Buyya, 2006)