Add DEFRA Air Quality Sensor Observation Service

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Please fill in the following information:

Base URL:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/sos-ukair/service?service=SOS&request=GetCapabilities

Name: UK-AIR Sensor Observation Service

Description:

This is an OGC standards based Sensor Observation Service interface to Defra's UK Air Information Resource (UK-AIR). The service supports the UK obligations to European air quality e-Reporting initiative & Defra Open Data policy. The SOS provides a machine readable access point for air pollution measurements funded by Defra, Scottish Government, Welsh Government & Department of the Environment Northern Ireland. The service implements INSPIRE guidelines. For more on the European air quality e-Reporting initiative go to http://www.eionet.europa.eu/aqportal.. The OGC SOS 2.0 standard is described at https://www.ogc.org/standards/sos

Documentation URL:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/about_sos

Maintainer:

The service provider is described on the Capabilities document as: Ricardo Energy & Environment (http://ee.ricardo.com/cms/). The phone number and email address are on the GetCapabilities response document in the <ows:ServiceProvider> element.

Provider:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk)

Area Served: Optional - The geographic area that the API serves. For example: 'Greater London'.

Start Date: Optional - The date the API comes into service. For example: '2020-07-01'.

End Date: Optional - The date the API will be retired. For example: '2022-07-01'.

Alternate Name: Optional - the acronym of the department or organisation. For example: 'GDS'.

Provider URL:

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk

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