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Formats of REFMAR tide gauge data available on http://data.shom.fr
Sea level observations are covered by the "Oceanographic geographical features" theme of Annex III of the INSPIRE Directive. More specifically, these data come under the Observations and Measurements model. Accordingly, the dissemination of REFMAR tide gauge data on data.shom.fr meets INSPIRE and ETALAB standards. The Sensor Observation Service provides two data formats: JSON and XML. To remain in continuity with the measurements delivered for several years on the REFMAR website, the TXT format was retained with no changes.
The Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
The Sensor Observation Service (SOS) is a special web service featuring an official standard. This service which is a standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently being adopted by INSPIRE as the official service for downloading observation and measurement data. Using SOS you can directly query measurement and observation data in a standardized way. The DescribeSensor query provides information on a given tidal observatory and GetObservations retrieves in XML or JSON the observations for a given site over a given period of time, for a given type of source (raw data, and validated data at different time steps).
ISO Metadata and cataloging
The platform data.shom.fr has implemented this standard to "easily" meet the INSPIRE requirements for tidal observation data. Likewise, the architecture of data.shom.fr complies with the Directive regarding cataloguing and displaying ISO metadata.
Dissemination of tidal data in XML or JSON formats
To familiarize you with future tide gauge data formats, we are providing an example of a download using the SOS format: Downloads.zip
REFMAR and data.shom.fr personnel are available to help you make the switch and answer all your questions.
References
- Inspire Directive and annexes
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- SOS standard
- SOS implementation
- ISO meta data - national guidelines and recommendations
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Last updated : 2015 06 01