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Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA)
agINFRA Consortium
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
This vocabulary is a first formalization of the INSPIRE data model into an RDFs vocabulary.Developed by the Italian Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA) in collaboration...
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International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA)
Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP)
The International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA) has established a naming convention for agricultural model variables. AgMIP has adopted these standards for use in the...
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Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP)
Format used by AgMIP models: data are transferred into and out of the ACE and ACMO databases through the API using JSON objects, which consist of key:value pairs. Each key in a key:value pair...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
A list of codes referring to the countries / regional centres/ institutions that submitted the reference.
AGROVOC
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry,...
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American Meteorological Society (AMS)
In 1959, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of that...
ANAEETHES
The AnaEE thesaurus aims to provide a controlled vocabulary for the semantic description of the study of continental ecosystems and their biodiversity. It has been developed within the framework of...
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The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC)
The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) Metadata Profile (version 1.1) is the recommended e-GIF geospatial metadata standard for use by New Zealand government agencies. The...
ASFA
An indexing and searching tool. It contains the subject descriptors used to index the records contained in the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) bibliographic database.
METAR
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by pilots in fulfillment of a part of a pre-flight weather briefing, and by meteorologists, who use...
BUFR
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) code form FM 94 BUFR (Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data) is a binary code designed to represent, employing a continuous...
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Center for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
CEDA has used NASA-Ames formatted data for many years. NASA-Ames was devised primarily as a format for aircraft observations, but can be adapted for many atmospheric observation data. However, NASA-...
CIESIN
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NASA
CLIMAT
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
CLIMAT is a code for reporting monthly climatological data assembled at land-based meteorological surface observation sites to data centres. CLIMAT-coded messages contain information on several...
CSML
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British Atmospheric Data Centre
Climate Science Modelling Language v3.0 is a data model for encoding climate, atmospheric and oceanographic data in terms of geometry-based observation classes such as Points, Profiles, Trajectories...
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CLIPC Consortium
CLIPC (Constructing Europe's Climate Information Portal) is an EC FP7 project giving access to data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, as well as transformed...
CAP
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
OASIS Emergency Management TC
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks. CAP allows a consistent warning message to...
FGDC
The objectives of the standard are to provide a common set of terminology and definitions for the documentation of digital geospatial data. The standard establishes the names of data elements and...
CO_705
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CGIAR
Describes official ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric country codes along with location names.
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Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
agINFRA Consortium
Knowledge Organization System containing all terms used as controlled values in the soil database of the Italian Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura - Research Centre for...
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INSPIRE Registry
World Reference Base for Soil Resources
BUFR
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
DIF
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Global Change Master Directory, NASA
NASA
approved standard recommended for use in NASA Earth Science Data Systems in September 2008. It inlcudes elements focusing on instruments that capture data, temporal and spatial characteristics of the...
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
{Not accessible anymore?] EARTh terminological content is derived from various multilingual and monolingual sources of controlled environmental terminology:GEMET - GEneral Multilingual Environmental...
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
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The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America...
EPW
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption—for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and...
ENVO
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Envo Administrators
Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group
Ontology of environmental features and habitats
ISSCFC
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The FAO International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishery Commodities (ISSCFC) has been developed for the collation of national data in its fishery commodities production and trade...
LCCS
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) is a comprehensive, standardized a priori classification system, designed to meet specific user requirements, and created for mapping exercises,...
FIGIS
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The fisheries glossary is a multilingual glossary which provides definitions related to the field of responsible (sustainable) fisheries development and management (including science and technology...
FIMES
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
The Fisheries Metadata Element Set is a proposed standard for the encoding of structured documents within the domain of fisheries research and policy.FiMES is an exponent of the Dublin Core metadata...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This ontology manages reference data about gear types needed for the fisheries fact sheets. The type of gear installed on a vessel determines the type of fish that it can catch and therefore it is...
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British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range
A compilation of forestry terms commonly used by the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range. The definitions are provided for information only.
GCMD
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Global Change Master Directory, NASA
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The FAO Fisheries Department has published a multilingual Glossary of Aquaculture containing, at the time of publication 2958 terms with definitions, synonyms, related terms, information sources and...
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United States Environment Protection Agency
Glossary of Climate Change Terms is maintained by US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and defines terms used in relation to climate change.
GRIB
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) Extraordinary Meeting Number VIII (1985) approved a general purpose, bit-oriented data exchange format, designated FM 92...
HDF5
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
HDF Group
The format of an HDF5 file on disk encompasses several key ideas of the HDF4 and AIO file formats as well as addressing some shortcomings therein. The new format is more self-describing than the HDF4...
ICASA2
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications (ICASA)
Data format for documenting experiments and modeling crop growth and development. The foundation of the standards is a master list variables that is organized in a hierarchical arrangement with major...
ANT
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
international Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The Agricultural and Nutrition Technology Ontology (ANT) was developed by the CGIAR to make it easier for organizations to access information on tested technologies that can improve smallholder...
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Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
The INSPIRE directive came into force on 15 May 2007 and will be implemented in various stages, with full implementation required by 2019. The INSPIRE directive aims to create a European Union (EU)...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
The theme establishes a structure for spatial referencing of features by coordinates. It refers to ISO 19111 adding a higher accuracy level.
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Geographical grids are an agreed, defined and harmonised grid net for Pan-Europe with standardised location and size of grid cells. Examples of cell sizes could be 10x10 m, 100x100 m, 1x1 km, 16x16...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
A geographical name is a proper noun applied to a natural, man-made or cultural feature on Earth. A feature can have different names in one or several languages and the names may be provided,...
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European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Physical conditions in the atmosphere. Includes spatial data based on measurements, on models or on a combination thereof and includes measurement locations. The INSPIRE themes "Atmospheric...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction. The scope of 'Meteorological geographical features' thematic data should be...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
The International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme (IGBP) defines ecosystems surface classifications.
LCML
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Standards Organisation
ISO 19144-2:2012 specifies a Land Cover Meta Language (LCML) expressed as a UML metamodel that allows different land cover classification systems to be described based on the physiognomic aspects...
ISO 19156:2011
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Standards Organisation
ISO 19156:2011 defines a conceptual schema for observations, and for features involved in sampling when making observations. These provide models for the exchange of information describing...
GMD
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
ISO/TC 211 Organization
International Standards Organisation
XML schema (GMD) for the ISO 19115:2003 Geographic Information - Metadata..The objective of this International Standard is to provide a structure for describing digital geographic data. This...