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4 Normative
references
SO : Geographic information – Data quality measures
nty of measurement – Part : Guide to the expression of UM:
SOEC GUDE ‐ : Uncertai uncertainty in measurement G
Geography Markup Language Observations Measurements
Sensor Model Language SensorML Enablement Common SWE Common
tion Sensor Web
W C XLink, XML Linking Language XLink Version . . W C Recommenda June
W C XML, Extensible Markup Language XML . Second Edition , W C Recommendation October
mespaces, Namespaces in XML. W C Recommendation January
W C XML Na W C XML Schema Part , XML Schema Part : Structures. W C Recommendation
hema Part , XML Schema Part : Datatypes. W C Recommendation May
W C XML Sc May
5 Conventions
5.1 Symbols and abbreviated terms
GML
Geography Markup Language
UML SWE
Sensor Web Enablement
UncertML
Unified Modelling Language Uncertainty Markup Language
Uniform Resource dentifier
XML
eXtensible Markup Language
URI
5.2 UML
Notation
The diagrams that appear in this document are presented using the Unified Modelling Language UML static structure diagram. The UML notations used in this document are described in the
diagram below.
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Figure 3: UML Notation.
n this document, the following three stereotypes of UML classes are used: a
DataType is a set of properties that lack identity independent existence and the
possibility of side effects . A DataType is a class with no operations whose primary purpose is to hold the information.
Union is a
he b
set of properties. Semantic constraints ensure that only one of t properties may be present at any time.
c Abstract
is an abstract object type the stereotype is used in addition to formatting the class name in italics .
n th d d:
is ocument the following standard data types are use loating point number
a o
D uble – a double precision f
b nteger – an integer number
5.3 Definitions
of terms as used within this document
Domain point : a uniquely‐identifiable sampling location within a set, which will often, but not always, be distinguished by its location in space andor time.
Random quantity : a quantitative result that is not known with certainty. We do not debate the philosophical or technical questions that this might introduce here.
Random variable : a random quantity that is attached to a specific variable or outcome, that is has units of measure and often a real physical interpretation. Note again this is not the precise
mathematical definition.
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Realisation : one of many possible values derived by sampling or simulation from a probability density function.
6 Conceptual
Models
This section provides a detailed conceptual model for all types in UncertML. Diagrams depicting all types and their properties are provided in UML notation outlined in Section . .
6.1 Base
