This XML Schema defines the GetObservation request XML elements and types. SOS is an OGC Standard. Copyright (c) 2006,2010 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved. To obtain additional rights of use, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/ . Request to a SOS to perform the GetObservation operation using an Observation ID. ID of the observation to obtain. This could have been obtained by the client via a URL in a feed, alert, or some other notification ID of the output format to be used for the requested data. The supported output formats are listed in the selected offering capabilities. This element allows the client to request the form of the response. The value of resultTemplate is used to retrieve an observation template that will later be used in calls to GetResult. The other options allow results to appear inline in a resultTag (inline), external to the observation element (out-of-band) or as a MIME attachment (attached)