FYI: For those interested in Sensors and Sensor fusion - 'Sensors Anywhere' Book] -

[creed@opengeospatial.org]

The book is free! This book describes the EU funded Sensors Anywhere
project. There are also companion OGC documents on the SANY Architecture
and SANY fusion services.

All of this work is tied into integrating sensor observations for
emergency management applications, alerting, and into any portal
application (such as GEOSS).

Cheers

Carl

Wayland, MA, 22 March 2010.  The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
(OGC)® announces the availability of a new book "SANY - an open
service architecture for sensor networks," available free at
http://sany-ip.eu/publications/3317. The book provides an
excellent introduction to OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards,
which enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers and
sensor data repositories discoverable, accessible and useable via the
Web.

The acronym SANY stands for "Sensors Anywhere." As a major Integrated
Project in the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission,
SANY extends the interoperability advances of an earlier European
project, ORCHESTRA, into the domain of environmental sensor networks
and standards-based sensor web enablement to support decision-making.


OGC SWE standards were applied in SANY to three innovative risk
management applications involving air pollution, marine risks and
geohazards. These efforts yielded valuable reference implementations
of sensor web Web services and geospatial processing Web services for
decision support and data fusion.

SANY is the work of the SANY consortium, a group composed of 16
partners from seven EU member states (Austria, Belgium, Germany,
Spain, France, Poland, United Kingdom) and one associated state
(Switzerland).