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ArcGIS Server SOS Extension – podcast

January 8, 2013 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

As reported earlier, we have implemented an SOS extension for ArcGIS Server as a so-called Server Object Extension (SOE). We have developed this software for the European Environment Agency (EEA) and in support of ESRI Inc.

The ArcGIS Server SOS Extension is compliant with the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0 standard defined by OGC. Additionally, the SOE provides a new REST interface to sensor resources which complies to the Geoservices REST API developed by ESRI, which is currently going through the standardization process at OGC.

More details on this development (e.g., demo, download link, SVN access, installation instructions, etc.) can be found on the project’s website.

In a recently published interview, Peter Kjeld (EEA), Satish Sankaran (ESRI), and Andreas Wytzisk (52°North) explain this mutual development and further plans with this software.

A detailed illustration of the functionality of the ArcGIS SOS extension is provided by the following screencast:

SOS Importer 0.3.0 Development Version Released

January 7, 2013 by Eike Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: 52°North, release, Sensor Observation Service, Sensor Web, Sensor Web Enablement, SOS

Today, a new version of the SOS (Sensor Observation Service) Importer was released. It is a tool for importing observations from CSV (Character Separated Values) files into a SOS instance using an eight step wizard for guiding a user through the often cumbersome process of data transformation.

Version 0.3 offers the following new features:

Support more observation types
- Truth
- Count
FTP Remote File Support
Fixed bugs: 523, 586, 589, 629, 630, 645, 649, 650, 668, 669, 707, 733, 736, 738
Use SOSWrapper from OXF 2.0-SNAPSHOT

More details can be found on the Wiki page of the SOS importer.

You can download the binaries from our Maven release repository:

Alternatively, you can build the binary files from the source code.

Feel free to share your experience with the Sensor Web community in our forum or mailing list (choose which you want, they are synchronized ;-)).

Ways to get data into an SOS

January 7, 2013 by Daniel Nuest Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: data access, proxy, SOS

The OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) is our choice when it comes to standardized interfaces for sensor data access on the web. But what if you already have an (online) database with sensor data, don’t want to get rid of it, and still use the powerful and standard conform 52°North SOS? A short presentation gives you a quick entry to that topic by introducing patterns for both of the currently maintained SOS versions (stable 3.5.x and the upcoming 4.0.0). The slides target both managers and developers and present the abstract ideas, as well as, the entry points into the source code and example implementations.

For more details please check the documentation in the Wiki: https://wiki.52north.org/bin/view/SensorWeb/SensorObservationService.

RESTful GeoServices SenseBox – first beta released

January 7, 2013 by DustinDemuth Leave a Comment

Filed Under: GSoC, Sensor Web Tagged With: Arduino, Feature Service, GeoServices, sensebox

The first beta for the 52°North RESTful GeoServices SenseBox can be downloaded from the SVN. This beta is the continuation of the Google Summer of Code Project “GIS link to the Web of Things“. The GeoServices SenseBox implements the Feature Service of the OGC GeoServices REST API draft in version 0.0.4 on an “open-hardware” microcontroller plattform.

The platform is capable of reading sensors and storing their measurements, as well as providing a simple web server. A RESTful interface provides easy access to the measurements and delivers them as features. When a feature or layer is queried, the platform responds with a JSON object containing that feature or layer.

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