TEODOOR - A Spatial Data Infrastructure for terrestrial observation data

Within the TERENO initiative four long-term terrestrial observatories, collecting huge amounts of environmental relevant data are being set up since 2008. In order to manage, describe, exchange and publish these data, the distributed Spatial Data Infrastructure TEODOOR (http://www.tereno.net) has been created. Each institution responsible for an individual observatory set up its own local data infrastructure, which may communicate to each other to exchange data and metadata internally or to the public by OGC-conformal Web services. The TEODOOR data portal serves as a database node to provide scientists and decision makers with reliable and well accessible data and data products. Various tools like hierarchical search or Web-GIS functions allow a deeper insight into the different observatories, test areas and sensor networks. Sensor data can be selected according to the measured parameters, stations and/or time periods, visualized and downloaded according to the common TERENO data policy. Currently, TEODOOR provides free access to data from more than 500 monitoring stations.