SPS is an OGC Standard. Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Open Geospatial Consortium. To obtain additional rights of use, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/ . contains metadata about a sensor provided by the service the area that the sensor can observe duration in which the service provides status information about a task or tasking request after it has been finalized unknown encoding supported by the service that can be used to encode tasking parameter values represents a choice between a point or a polygon