SOS Extensions for AQUARIUS Data Management System
Enhancing the 52°North SOS server to enable interoperable sharing of hydrological data
AQUARIUS is a hydrological software system developed and sold by Aquatic Informatics. It enables organizations to acquire, process, model and publish water information. Several regional councils in New Zealand use this system to manage their hydrological data. Some of these councils need to provide an SOS interface in combination with WaterML 2.0 in order to interoperably share the hydrological data collected and simultaneously fulfill corresponding data provision obligations. To address this issue, the 52°North SOS Server uses AQUARIUS as a data source.
52°North’s task was to extend their SOS AQUARIUS proxy server to meet the specific requirements of the regional councils, such as providing qualifier and code quality/grade information in WaterML 2.0. As a result, the updated Sensor Web installation was optimized to deliver hydrological data with all the necessary contextual information required by hydrological experts.
Customer
Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana, New Zealand