Observation Offerings

In the Sensor Observation Service 1.0.0 the concept of an Observation Offering is equivalent to that of a sensor constellation. An Observation Offering is analogous to a “layer” in Web Map Service because each offering is typically a non-overlapping group of related observations.

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Creating a new offering

Open the “Offerings” panel.

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Example

Name: workshop
Description: demo dataset for FOSS4G meeting
Expiration (optional): 2015-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
Validity: Enabled

Associate procedures with offering

Activate the tab panel pressing “Offering-procedure memberships”.

In the dropdown list select the newly created offering “workshop”.

On the left side you will see all the procedure that will be assigned to that offering.

On the right there are all the procedures not assigned to that offering.

Use drag and drop functionality to move procedures from right to left.

Verify that procedures are associated with offering as desired

To verify execute a getCapabilities request.

Example

http://localhost/istsos/demo?request=getCapabilities&section=contents&service=SOS&version=1.0.0

Note

replace “demo” in the URL with your service of interest