The study, Increasing the interoperability of snow/ice hyperspectral observations, stems from the collaboration between some researchers of CNR-ISP and CNR-IIA, starting from the spectral signature library, the Snow and Ice Spectral Library (SISpec), the authors built the metadata schema for snow to improve its sharing. In order to ensure accessibility as Open Data, they tried to find a compromise between the European Research Council (ERC) guidelines, the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reuse) Data principles defined by the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Data Sharing Principles. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO-19115) standard was chosen as the standard framework to describe SISpec. When the available metadata schema was not sufficient or suitable, extensions and new metadata components were created to describe the spectral signatures and microphysical parameters of the snow. The result is a metadata model specific to snow spectral signatures, which is useful for sharing SISpec in both the European and international context.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2022.105076 - Sabrina Di Franco (CNR-ISP)
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