Sensor Modeling Language

SensorML is an Open Standard developped by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) allowing the complete description of measurement systems and their components. This language takes a processing approach of measurement and lead to unambiguous descriptions of systems that can be understood by both humans and machines. Along with the Observations & Measurements (O&M) standard also from OGC and describing the sensor observations themselves, it can describe the full chain of measurement from the data collection to the final data delivery. This can be accomplished in an interoperable way so that multiple vendors can build software and infrastructures concurrently while maintaining compatibility.

The SensorML language was first developped at the University of Alabama in Huntsville by the VAST Research team where Mr. Alexandre Robin (then working as a Research Scientist) was heavily involved in its design and the development of various tools and processing software built around the standard.