Integration and Visualization of dynamic Sensor Data into 3 D Spatial Data Infrastructures in a standardized way

Integrating actual sensor data, such as weather or environmental information can improve the value of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) enormously. These applications are nowadays supported by Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) in order to find, access and utilize relevant geodata. In contrast to the mostly static data in conventional Spatial Data Infrastructures (e.g. administrative boundaries) by now, sensor information need new standards to realize the integration of this dynamic data into SDI. These new challenge was handled by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) within its Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) (Botts et al., 2007) initiative. Several standards to administrate, detect and receive sensor data were passed, for example a Sensor Observation Service (SOS) (Na et al., 2007). For validating the standards of the SWE there are already existing applications using sensor information that is provided by a SOS. But those cases are predominantly designed for 2D data. This paper demonstrates an approach to integrate sensor information into a 3Dclient of a 3D-SDI completely based on the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (Basanow et al., 2007). This leads to the new concept of dynamic 3D-SDIs. An according prototype has already been implemented and will be presented.