Exploiting observations and measurement data standard for distributed LTER-Italy freshwater sites. Water quality issues

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1 Istituto per lo Studio Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy
2 Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Verbania Pallanza, Italy
3 Department of Bioscience, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2233v2
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Accepted
Subject Areas
Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, World Wide Web and Web Science
Keywords
Sensor Web Enablement, Spatial Data Infrastructure, Ecological research, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
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© 2016 Lanucara et al.
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Lanucara S, Carrara P, Oggioni A, Rogora M, Kamburska L, Rossetti G. 2016. Exploiting observations and measurement data standard for distributed LTER-Italy freshwater sites. Water quality issues. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2233v2

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.

Author 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.

Supplemental Information

Figure 1: SOS DescribeSensor request in HTTP for metadata of a DX-500 Ion Chromatograph and relative response in XML

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2233v2/supp-1

Figure 2: HTML page, provided by GET-IT, for metadata of a DX-500 Ion Chromatograph

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2233v2/supp-2

Figure 3: GET-IT form for InsertObservation

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2233v2/supp-3

Figure 4: GET-IT web map and graphical dialogue window to show results of GetObservation

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2233v2/supp-4