An instrument used to take readings as part of a measurement. A sensor is equipment,and may be assigned a location by a coordinate or by a text description. It can alsohave one or more detectors, each with its own location, a measurand and ameasurement axis orientation.
Database handle for the object. It is of XML type ID, so is constrained to beunique in the XML document within which it occurs. An external identifier for the object inthe form of a URI may be constructed using standard XML and XPointer methods. This is doneby concatenating the URI for the document, a fragment separator, and the value of the idattribute.
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<element name="Sensor" type="diggs:SensorType" substitutionGroup="diggs:AbstractSensor" abstract="false"><annotation><documentation>An instrument used to take readings as part of a measurement. A sensor is equipment, and may be assigned a location by a coordinate or by a text description. It can also have one or more detectors, each with its own location, a measurand and a measurement axis orientation.</documentation></annotation></element>