Open (geo)data IRCEL-CELINE

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Also see: https://www.irceline.be/en/documentation/open-data

Catalog Service for the Web (CSW)

Metadata is hosted via:

• https://geo.irceline.be/csw

Documentation specific CSW implementation:

• https://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/eng/users/index.html

General documentation of the OGC standard for CSW:

• https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat

Web Map Service (WMS) - viewing service

A WMS serves geo-registered map images

Our end-point:

• https://geo.irceline.be/wms

See GetCapabilities:

• https://geo.irceline.be/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities (slow due to large amount of layers) Better request metadata per workspace:
• https://geo.irceline.be/realtime/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
• https://geo.irceline.be/rio/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
• https://geo.irceline.be/annual/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
• https://geo.irceline.be/rioifdm/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities

Or even per layer:

• https://geo.irceline.be/realtime/no2_hmean_station/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
• https://geo.irceline.be/rio/no2_hmean/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
• https://geo.irceline.be/annual/no2_anmean/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
• https://geo.irceline.be/rioifdm/no2_anmean_2018_atmostreet/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities

The following workspaces serve a subsection of the data:

1. https://geo.irceline.be/rio/wms

   • interpolated maps of RIO 4x4km
   • Coverage Belgium and per region
   • see further details here

2. https://geo.irceline.be/realtime/wms

   • real time measurement data per station
   • selection possible via time parameter
   • see further details here

3. https://geo.irceline.be/annual/wms

   • aggregated measurement data per station

4. https://geo.irceline.be/rioifdm/wms

   • maps of RIO-IFDM and ATMO-Street
   • Coverage Belgium and per region

Encodings

Available encodings (see format parameter):

• png
• png8
• jpeg
• tiff
• kml
• ...

See full list in, e.g.: GetCapabilities under <GetMap> <Format>

Projections

Available projections (see srs parameter):

• EPSG:31370
• EPSG:4258
• EPSG:4326
• EPSG:900913

Documentation WMS

Documentation interacting with the specific WMS implementation:

• https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wms/reference.html

General documentation of the OGC standard for WMS:

• https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms

Web Feature Service (WFS) - download service

A WFS serves vector format geographical data.

Our end-point:

• https://geo.irceline.be/wfs

See GetCapabilities: https://geo.irceline.be/wfs?service=wfs&version=2.0.0&request=GetCapabilities

Encodings

Available encodings (see output formats parameter):

• gml (outputFormat=GML2 or outputFormat=GML3)
• json (outputFormat=application/json)
• csv (outputFormat=csv)
• shp (outputFormat=shape-zip)
• jsonp (outputFormat=text/javascript)

See full list in GetCapabilities under <ows:Parameter name="outputFormat">

Projections

Most commonly used projections are supported (cf EPSG)

Documentation WFS

Documentation specific WFS implementation:

• https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/reference.html

General documentation of the OGC standard for WFS:

• https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs

Web Coverage Service (WCS) - download service

A WCS serves raster format geographical data.

Our end-point:

• https://geo.irceline.be/wcs

See GetCapabilities: https://geo.irceline.be/wcs?service=WCS&version=2.0.1&request=GetCapabilities

Use DescribeCoverage to get a full description of the coverages by layer: https://geo.irceline.be/wcs?service=WCS&version=2.0.1&request=DescribeCoverage&coverageid=rioifdm:no2_anmean_2017_atmostreet

Size for output download is limited to 50Mb.

Documentation WCS

Documentation specific WCS implementation:

• https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wcs/index.html

General documentation of the OGC standard for WCS:

• https://www.ogc.org/standard/wcs/

Sensor Observation Service (SOS) - download service

A SOS serves sensor data (time series, metadata of stations and measuring devices) collected at a specific geographical location.

Our end-point:

• https://geo.irceline.be/sos

Browse data via the following clients:

• https://geo.irceline.be/sos/static/client/jsClient/#map

SOAP

Client: https://geo.irceline.be/sos/client

Documentation specific SOS implementation: https://wiki.52north.org/bin/view/SensorWeb/SensorObservationServiceIVDocumentation

SOS adapted for e-reporting under the Air Quality Directive: https://wiki.52north.org/bin/view/SensorWeb/AqdEReporting

General documentation of the OGC standard for SOS:

• https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos

REST-api

• https://geo.irceline.be/sos/api/v1/

Documentation:

• https://geo.irceline.be/sos/static/doc/api-doc/

Bulk downloads

RIO: http://ftp.irceline.be/rio4x4/

RIO-IFDM: http://ftp.irceline.be/rioifdm

ATMO-Street: http://ftp.irceline.be/atmostreet

Legends

See: https://github.com/irceline/map_legends

Abbreviations

A list of abbreviations used in het layer names:

Abbreviation	Description
bc	Black Carbon (BC)
no2	Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
o3	Ozone (O3)
pm10	Particulate Matter < 10 µm (PM10)
pm25	Particulate Matter < 2.5 µm (PM2.5)
so2	Sulphur dioxide (SO2)
hmean	hourly mean (timstamp = end-time of hour)
24hmean	Running 24-hour mean (timstamp = end-time of 24 hour period)
8hmean	Running 8-hour mean (timstamp = end-time of 8 hour period)
maxhmean	Daily (01h00 to 24h00) maximum hmean (timstamp = 01h00 of the running day)
max8hmean	Daily (01h00 to 24h00) maximum 8hmean (timstamp = 01h00 of the running day)
dmean	Daily mean concentration (hmean 01h00 to 24h00 - timstamp = 01h00 of the following day)
anmean	Annual mean concentration (calendar year)
rio	RIO interpolation - see rio datasets
station	data measured in a monitoring station - see measurements datasets
vl	the network "Flanders"
wl	the network "Wallonia"
br	the network "Brussels"