A Sensor Web architecture for sharing oceanographic sensor data

This paper introduces the Sensor Web architecture of the NeXOS project as example how interoperable standards help, to facilitate the creation of an infrastructure for sharing oceanographic observation data and the integration of sensor data into applications. Important technological foundations of the NeXOS Sensor Web architecture are the concepts of spatial data infrastructures and the Sensor Web Enablement framework of the Open Geospatial Consortium. As a result an architecture concept has been developed, which is introduced in this paper.