Exploiting observations and measurement data standard for distributed LTER-Italy freshwater sites. Water quality issues
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Abstract
Water quality is a multi-source, multi-purpose problem that needs exploiting observations, often taken by a number of heterogeneous bodies. This problem has been tackled within the Italian Long Term Ecological research network (LTER-Italy) in an experiment aimed at testing how ecological observations of mountain lakes water can be shared by OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standard services of the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative. A friendly and easy implementation of these services is fostered by the usage of the open source software Geoinformation Enabling Toolkit StarterKit ® (GET-IT). It has been used in the experiment to create SOS services, upload observations and create SensorML metadata of the involved sensors. This contribution describes the experiment and presents its results.
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2016. Exploiting observations and measurement data standard for distributed LTER-Italy freshwater sites. Water quality issues. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2233v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2233v2Author comment
In the version 2 we have:
- Improved the literature review on the subject in the section Introduction and Conclusion.
- Added a discussion on the selection of the used software stack and a comparison with other possible alternatives in the section Method.
- Improved the discussion in terms of software developments and future data additions in the section Conclusion.
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Supplemental Information
Figure 1: SOS DescribeSensor request in HTTP for metadata of a DX-500 Ion Chromatograph and relative response in XML
Figure 2: HTML page, provided by GET-IT, for metadata of a DX-500 Ion Chromatograph
Figure 4: GET-IT web map and graphical dialogue window to show results of GetObservation
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Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Simone Lanucara conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work.
Paola Carrara conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Alessandro Oggioni conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Michela Rogora conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Lyudmila Kamburska conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.
Giampaolo Rossetti conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.
Data Deposition
The following information was supplied regarding data availability:
http://sk.ise.cnr.it/
Funding
NextData Data-LTER-Mountain provided funding for this work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
