ISO 19115 Metadata for Air Quality

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ISO_19115_Metadata_for_Air_Quality Description: The metadata has the primary purpose to facilitate finding and accessing the data in order to help dealing with first two hurdles that the users face. Clearly, the air quality specific metadata such as sampling platform, data domain and measured parameters etc. need to be defined by air quality users. Dealing with the hurdles of data quality and multi-sensory data integration are topics of future efforts.

Glossary Domain: WCS, HTAP

Contributors

Erin Robinson, CAPITA; Ted Habermann, NOAA; Wenli Yang, NASA; Chris Lynnes, NASA;

History

Jan-May, 2009 First AQ Community Catalog Record Created
May-August 2010 Worked with GEOSS AIP creating

Term Details

ISO 19115

ISO 19115 "Geographic Information - Metadata"<ref>ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata. International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Geneva, 2003</ref> from ISO/TC 211, the current "best practice" standard for geospatial metadata, does not in fact provide a definition of geospatial (or geographic) metadata; however, uses the following wording in its "scope" section:

"This International Standard provides information about the identification, the extent, the quality, the spatial and temporal schema, spatial reference, and distribution of digital geographic data."

A little further, it is stated: "Though this International Standard is applicable to digital data, its principles can be extended to many other forms of geographic data such as maps, charts, and textual documents as well as non-geographic data." (Wikipedia)