Site
A facility or location at which observations have been collected. A site may have instruments or equipment installed and may contain multiple other sampling features (e.g., a stream gage, weather station, observation well, etc.). Additionally, many specimen sampling features may be collected at a site. Sites are also often referred to as stations. A site is represented as a point, but it may have a geographical footprint that is not a point. The site coordinates serve as a reference for the site and offsets may be specified from this reference location.
SamplingPoint
CUAHSI Observations Data Model
SamplingFeatureType
ODM2 Working Group
A vocabulary for describing the type of SamplingFeature. Many different SamplingFeature types can be represented in ODM2. SamplingFeatures of type Site and Specimen will be the most common, but many different types of varying levels of complexity can be used.