-- Name -- observing capability -- Definition -- Explicit capability of an AbstractMonitoringObject.
-- Name -- environmental monitoring network -- Definition -- Administrative or organisational grouping of EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities managed the same way for a specific purpose, targeting a specific area. Each network respects common rules aiming at ensuring coherence of the observations, especially for purposes of EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities, mandatory parameters selection, measurement methods and measurement regime.
-- Name -- environmental monitoring facility -- Definition -- A georeferenced object directly collecting or processing data about objects whose properties (e.g. physical, chemical, biological or other aspects of environmental conditions) are repeatedly observed or measured. An environmental monitoring facility can also host other environmental monitoring facilities. -- Description -- NOTE 1: An EnvironmentalMonitoringFacility is not a facility in the common INSPIRE sense realised by the Generic Conceptual Model class ActivtiyComplex. NOTE 2: Laboratories are not EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities from an INSPIRE perspective as the exact location of the laboratory does not add further information to the measurement. The methodology used in the laboratory should be provided with observational data.
-- Name -- abstract monitoring object -- Definition -- An abstract base class for environmental monitoring objects.
-- Name -- environmental monitoring programme -- Definition -- Framework based on policy relevant documents defining the target of a collection of observations and/or the deployment of AbstractMonitoringFeatures on the field. Usually an Environmental Monitoring Programme has a long term perspective over at least a few years.
-- Name -- environmental monitoring activity -- Definition -- Specific set of AbstractMonitoringFeatures used for a given domain in a coherent and concise timeframe, area and purpose. Usually the information collected is treated as one time step in a long term monitoring programme. It is a concrete realisation of a given EnvironmentalMonitoringProgramme. -- Description -- For example a vessel could be equipped with a collection of EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities for a given campaign (= EnvironmentalMonitoringActivity) fulfilling an EnvironmentalMonitoringProgramme requirements. Then, after a given period this exact same vessel could be equipped with another set of EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities for another campaign fulfilling another EnvironmentalMonitoringProgramme requirements.
-- Name -- operational activity period -- Definition -- Corresponds to a period during which the EnvironmentalMonitoringFacility has been up and running.
-- Name -- abstract monitoring feature -- Definition -- An abstract base class for environmental monitoring features in the real world (EnvironmentalMonitoringNetwork, EnvironmentalMonitoringFacility). -- Description --
-- Name -- report to legal act -- Definition -- Information on the involvement of an AbstractMonitoringFeature in reporting. The information is specific per submitted reporting envelope and not per obligation/agreement. -- Description -- From INSPIRE perspective, an AbstractMonitoringFeature requires the provision of ISO 19156 compliant observations & measurements only in the case that these have been required by a legal reporting obligation or a commonly agreed voluntarily data flow using INSPIRE EF dataspecification for the definition of datastructure.
-- Name -- result nature -- Definition -- State of the result of an observation.
-- Name -- specialised EMF type -- Definition -- Categories for different types of EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities.
-- Name -- measurement regime -- Definition -- Categories for different types of the MeasurementRegime.
-- Name -- result acquisition source -- Definition -- Categories for different types of the ResultAcquisitionSource.
-- Name -- process type -- Definition -- Categories for different process types.
-- Name -- purpose of collection -- Definition -- Categories for different purposes of collections.
-- Name -- any domain link -- Definition -- Any domain relevant link to an EnvironmentalMonitoringFacility that is not hierarchical or associated with a notion of genealogy.
-- Name -- network facility -- Definition -- Link between EnvironmentalMonitoringNetwork and EnvironmentalMonitoringFacility.