OGC TimeseriesML is an OGC Standard. Copyright (c) 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021 Open Geospatial Consortium. To obtain additional rights of use, visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/legal/ . The Monitoring Feature schema contains the definition of the Monitoring Feature type that is the (sampling) feature of interest of a TimeSeries observation. A MonitoringFeature is a spatial sampling feature (O&M) where observations are recorded. This monitoring feature often corresponds to a fixed instrument or monitoring site but it can also be an anonymous spatial location. The monitoring feature is a proxy for a real world feature. The details of a party related to this MonitoringFeature. Multiple related parties may be described using the role code list (from ISO 19115). The most common relationships are likely to be: owner, originator, pointOfContact, principalInvestigator and distributor. A point location that is representative of the monitoring feature's location. Typically this is used when the shape of the monitoring feature is an area or other non-point geometry. It may also be used to provide an approximate point location in sensitive observation scenarios. A thematic characterisation of the type of monitoring feature. E.g. meteorological, surface water, groundwater, water quality etc. Provide extra descriptive information about a monitoring feature. This could be a link to an HTML page describing the location, photos of a monitoring point, history records etc. Specifies the elevation that is used as the zero point, or datum, for height-related measurements. The datum is defined using a vertical datum, which may be defined using the ISO19111 type CD_VerticalDatum, or an agreed upon datum may be reference by its identifier. E.g. the Australian Height Datum (AHD), Tasmania = “EPSG::5112”. The CD_VerticalDatum type allows specification of the local vertical datum as a height above another reference datum. E.g. local vertical datum is 23m above the AHD. The timezone that the MonitoringFeature is located in. The timezone that the MonitoringFeature is located in when daylight savings applies. Representation of a timezone. Time zone offset e.g. +10:00 GMT Abbreviation for a timezone e.g. AEST.