ISO Platforms and Instruments

How ISO Does It

Most environmental datasets include observations that are made using instruments and, sometimes, platforms with multiple instruments. The characteristics of those instruments are, therefore, essential elements of the documentation for those instruments. Tracking changes in the instruments or their settings through time is also critical. The MI_Platform and MI_Instrument objects included in ISO 19115-2 provide a framework for connecting those descriptions to datasets.

MI_Platform
+ citation[0..*] : CI_Citation
+ identifier : MD_Identifier
+ description : CharacterString
+ sponsor[0..*] : CI_ResponsibleParty

MI_Instrument
+ citation[0..*] : CI_Citation
+ identifier : MD_Identifier
+ description : CharacterString
+ description[0..1] : CharacterString

ESIP Response

Yes

Henry - GZS DISC
Gao - NASA LARC
Daniel Jacob
Tyler Stevens - Yes, GCMD has platform & instrument information tagged with its metadata
Ed Armstrong
Deborah Smith - Discover
Karl Benedict
Rudy Husar
Ken Casey - We do already within our NOCD namespace which contains unique platform and instrument codes
Jeff Arnfield - For contemporary networks a great amount of detail needs to be captured for instruments

Maybe

John Schaldone - Not now, but maybe in the future.