This XML Schema defines the DescribeSensor request and response XML elements and types. SOS is an OGC Standard. Copyright (c) 2006,2010 Open Geospatial Consortium. To obtain additional rights of use, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/ . Request to a SOS to perform the DescribeSensor operation. This operation is designed to request detailed sensor metadata. Identifier of the sensor, for which detailed metadata is requested. Identifier of the output format to be used for the requested data. The outputFormats supported by a SOS server are listed in the operations metadata section of the service metadata (capabilities XML). If this attribute is omitted, the outputFormat should be tex/xml;subtype="sensorML/1.0.0". If the requested outputFormat is not supported by the SOS server, an exception message shall be returned.