Metadata for Acquisition (MAC)

Metadata for Acquisition (MAC) Version: 2.0

mac

Description

MAC 2.0 is an XML Schema implementation derived from ISO 19115-2, Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for acquisition and processing, Clause 6.3.2. It includes information related to acquisition platforms, instruments, operations and other details. The XML schema was encoded using the rules described in ISO/TS 19139:2007, Clause 8 and implementation approach from ISO/TS19115-3, Clause 8.

Sample XML files for mac 2.0

XML Namespace for mac 2.0

The namespace URI for mac 2.0 is http://standards.iso.org/iso/19115/-3/mac/2.0.

XML Schema for mac 2.0

mac.xsd is the XML Schema document to be referenced by XML documents containing XML elements in the mac 2.0 namespace or by XML Schema documents importing the mac 2.0 namespace. This XML schema includes (indirectly) all the implemented concepts of the mac namespace, but it does not contain the declaration of any types.

Note
The XML Schema for mac 2.0 are available here. A zip archive including all the XML Schema Implementations defined in ISO/TS 19115-3 and related standards is also available.

acquisitionInformationImagery.xsd implements the UML conceptual schema defined in ISO 19115-2, Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for acquisition and processing, Clause 6.3.2. It was created using the encoding rules defined in ISO 19118, ISO 19139, and the implementation approach described in ISO 19115-3 and contains the following classes (codeLists are bold): MI_AcquisitionInformation, MI_ContextCode, MI_EnvironmentalRecord, MI_Event, MI_GeometryTypeCode, MI_Instrument, MI_Sensor, MI_Objective, MI_ObjectiveTypeCode, MI_Operation, MI_OperationTypeCode, MI_Plan, MI_Platform, MI_PlatformPass, MI_PriorityCode, MI_RequestedDate, MI_Requirement, MI_SensorTypeCode, MI_SequenceCode, and MI_TriggerCode

event.xsd implements the UML conceptual schema defined in ISO 19115-2, Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for acquisition and processing, Clause 6.3.2. It was created using the encoding rules defined in ISO 19118, ISO 19139, and the implementation approach described in ISO 19115-3 and contains the following classes (codeLists are bold): MI_InstrumentationEventList, MI_InstrumentationEvent, MI_Revision, and MI_InstrumentationEventTypeCode

The mac 2.0 namespace imports these other namespaces:

Name Standard Prefix Namespace Location Schema Location

Geographic COmmon

gco

https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/-3/gco/1.0

gco.xsd

Geographic Markup Wrappers

gmw

https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/-3/gmw/1.0

gmw.xsd

Language localization

lan

https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/-3/lan/1.0

lan.xsd

Metadata Common Classes

mcc

https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/-3/mcc/1.0

mcc.xsd

Working Versions

When revisions to these schema become necessary, they will be managed in the ISO TC211 Git Repository.