U.S. Geological Survey Field Measurements Metadata API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    name: US Geological Survey - Water Data for the Nation
    url: https://waterdata.usgs.gov
    x-ogc-serviceContact:
      addresses: []
      emails:
      - value: wdfn@usgs.gov
      hoursOfService: pointOfContact
      links:
      - href: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/questions-comments/?referrerUrl=https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov
        type: text/html
      name: WDFN Support
  description: 'The United States Geological Survey (USGS) collects water data at monitoring locations across the United States using both automated sensors and manual data collection. These APIs provide access to that data, alongside metadata about data collections and monitoring locations, in standardized machine-readable formats.

    '
  license:
    name: US Government work in the public domain
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  termsOfService: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  title: USGS Water Data Field Measurements Metadata API
  version: 0.71.7
  x-keywords:
  - geospatial
  - data
  - api
  - hydrology
  - USGS
servers:
- description: 'The United States Geological Survey (USGS) collects water data at monitoring locations across the United States using both automated sensors and manual data collection. These APIs provide access to that data, alongside metadata about data collections and monitoring locations, in standardized machine-readable formats.

    '
  url: https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0
tags:
- description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

    '
  name: field-measurements-metadata
paths:
  /collections/field-measurements-metadata:
    get:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: describeField-measurements-metadataCollection
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/Collection
        '400':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '404':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429'
        '500':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError
      summary: Get Field measurements metadata metadata
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
  /collections/field-measurements-metadata/items:
    get:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: getField-measurements-metadataFeatures
      parameters:
      - description: The optional f parameter indicates the output format which the server shall provide as part of the response document.  The default format is GeoJSON.
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: f
        required: false
        schema:
          default: json
          enum:
          - json
          - html
          - jsonld
          - csv
          type: string
        style: form
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/bbox'
      - description: The optional limit parameter limits the number of items that are presented in the response document (maximum=50000, default=10).
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: limit
        required: false
        schema:
          default: 10
          maximum: 50000
          minimum: 1
          type: integer
        style: form
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/crs'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/bbox-crs'
      - description: The properties that should be included. The parameter value is a comma-separated list of property names.
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: properties
        required: false
        schema:
          items:
            enum:
            - id
            - reading_type
            - monitoring_location_id
            - parameter_code
            - parameter_name
            - parameter_description
            - begin
            - end
            - last_modified
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/skipGeometry'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/wda_sortby'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - description: "A unique identifier representing a single collection series. This corresponds to the `field_measurement_series_id` field in the `field-measurements` endpoint. Collection series are defined as the set of field measurements at a given monitoring location for a single parameter code using a single reading type.\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas."
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: id
        required: false
        schema:
          description: "A unique identifier representing a single collection series. This corresponds to the `field_measurement_series_id` field in the `field-measurements` endpoint. Collection series are defined as the set of field measurements at a given monitoring location for a single parameter code using a single reading type.\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas."
          title: Field measurement series ID
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: 'Distinguishes field-measurement readings from measurements. Readings have a value of ReferencePrimary; measurements are Discharge or MeanGageHeight.

          '
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: reading_type
        required: false
        schema:
          description: 'Distinguishes field-measurement readings from measurements. Readings have a value of ReferencePrimary; measurements are Discharge or MeanGageHeight.

            '
          title: Reading type
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: "A unique identifier representing a single monitoring location. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `monitoring-locations` endpoint. Monitoring location IDs are created by combining the agency code of the agency responsible for the monitoring location (e.g. USGS) with the ID number of the monitoring location (e.g. 02238500), separated by a hyphen (e.g. USGS-02238500).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas."
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: monitoring_location_id
        required: false
        schema:
          description: "A unique identifier representing a single monitoring location. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `monitoring-locations` endpoint. Monitoring location IDs are created by combining the agency code of the agency responsible for the monitoring location (e.g. USGS) with the ID number of the monitoring location (e.g. 02238500), separated by a hyphen (e.g. USGS-02238500).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas."
          title: Monitoring location ID
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: "Parameter codes are 5-digit codes used to identify the constituent measured and the units of measure. A complete list of parameter codes and associated groupings can be found at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas."
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: parameter_code
        required: false
        schema:
          description: "Parameter codes are 5-digit codes used to identify the constituent measured and the units of measure. A complete list of parameter codes and associated groupings can be found at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items).\n Split parameters are enabled for this field, so you can supply multiple values separated by commas."
          title: Parameter code
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: A human-understandable name corresponding to `parameter_code`.
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: parameter_name
        required: false
        schema:
          description: A human-understandable name corresponding to `parameter_code`.
          title: Parameter name
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: 'A description of what the parameter code represents, as used by WDFN and other USGS data dissemination products.

          '
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: parameter_description
        required: false
        schema:
          description: 'A description of what the parameter code represents, as used by WDFN and other USGS data dissemination products.

            '
          title: Parameter description
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: "The datetime of the earliest observation in the time series. Together with `end_utc`, this field represents the period of record of a time series. Note that some time series may have large gaps in their collection record.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `begin_utc` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: begin
        required: false
        schema:
          description: "The datetime of the earliest observation in the time series. Together with `end_utc`, this field represents the period of record of a time series. Note that some time series may have large gaps in their collection record.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `begin_utc` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
          title: Time series first observation timestamp - UTC
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: "The datetime of the most recent observation in the time series. Data returned by this endpoint updates at most once per day, and potentially less frequently than that, and as such there may be more recent observations within a time series than the time series `end_utc` value reflects. Together with `begin_utc`, this field represents the period of record of a time series. It is additionally used to determine whether a time series is \"active\".\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `end_utc` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: end
        required: false
        schema:
          description: "The datetime of the most recent observation in the time series. Data returned by this endpoint updates at most once per day, and potentially less frequently than that, and as such there may be more recent observations within a time series than the time series `end_utc` value reflects. Together with `begin_utc`, this field represents the period of record of a time series. It is additionally used to determine whether a time series is \"active\".\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `end_utc` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
          title: Time series most recent observation timestamp - UTC
          type: string
        style: form
      - description: "The last time a record was refreshed in our database. This may happen due to regular operational processes and does not necessarily indicate anything about the measurement has changed.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `last_modified` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: last_modified
        required: false
        schema:
          description: "The last time a record was refreshed in our database. This may happen due to regular operational processes and does not necessarily indicate anything about the measurement has changed.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `last_modified` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
          title: Last modified date
          type: string
        style: form
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/filter'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeatures'
        '400':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '404':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429'
        '500':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Get Field measurements metadata items
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
    options:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: optionsField-measurements-metadataFeatures
      responses:
        '200':
          description: options response
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Options for Field measurements metadata items
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
    post:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: getCQL2Field-measurements-metadataFeatures
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/cql2/1.0/cql2.json
        description: Get items with CQL2
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeatures'
        '400':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429'
        '500':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Get Field measurements metadata items with CQL2
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
  /collections/field-measurements-metadata/items/{featureId}:
    get:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: getField-measurements-metadataFeature
      parameters:
      - $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/parameters/featureId
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/crs'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeature'
        '400':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '404':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429'
        '500':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Get Field measurements metadata item by id
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
    options:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: optionsField-measurements-metadataFeature
      parameters:
      - $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/parameters/featureId
      responses:
        '200':
          description: options response
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Options for Field measurements metadata item by id
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
  /collections/field-measurements-metadata/queryables:
    get:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: getField-measurements-metadataQueryables
      parameters:
      - description: The properties that should be included. The parameter value is a comma-separated list of property names.
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: properties
        required: false
        schema:
          items:
            enum:
            - id
            - reading_type
            - monitoring_location_id
            - parameter_code
            - parameter_name
            - parameter_description
            - begin
            - end
            - last_modified
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f'
      - description: The profile to be applied to a given request
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: profile
        required: false
        schema:
          enum:
          - actual-domain
          - valid-domain
          type: string
        style: form
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Queryables'
        '400':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '404':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429'
        '500':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Get Field measurements metadata queryables
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
  /collections/field-measurements-metadata/schema:
    get:
      description: 'This endpoint provides metadata about field measurement collections, including when the earliest and most recent observations for a parameter occurred at a monitoring location and its units.

        '
      operationId: getField-measurements-metadataSchema
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/f'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Queryables'
        '400':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/InvalidParameter
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden403'
        '404':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/NotFound
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests429'
        '500':
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/responses/ServerError
      security:
      - ApiKeyQuery: []
      - ApiKeyHeader: []
      summary: Get Field measurements metadata schema
      tags:
      - field-measurements-metadata
components:
  schemas:
    FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeature:
      properties:
        geometry:
          $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/schemas/geometryGeoJSON
        id:
          type: string
        properties:
          properties:
            begin:
              description: "The datetime of the earliest observation in the time series. Together with `end_utc`, this field represents the period of record of a time series. Note that some time series may have large gaps in their collection record.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `begin_utc` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
              title: Time series first observation timestamp - UTC
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            end:
              description: "The datetime of the most recent observation in the time series. Data returned by this endpoint updates at most once per day, and potentially less frequently than that, and as such there may be more recent observations within a time series than the time series `end_utc` value reflects. Together with `begin_utc`, this field represents the period of record of a time series. It is additionally used to determine whether a time series is \"active\".\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `end_utc` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
              title: Time series most recent observation timestamp - UTC
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            id:
              description: 'A unique identifier representing a single collection series. This corresponds to the `field_measurement_series_id` field in the `field-measurements` endpoint. Collection series are defined as the set of field measurements at a given monitoring location for a single parameter code using a single reading type.

                '
              title: Field measurement series ID
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            last_modified:
              description: "The last time a record was refreshed in our database. This may happen due to regular operational processes and does not necessarily indicate anything about the measurement has changed.\nYou can query this field using date-times or intervals, adhering to RFC 3339, or using ISO 8601 duration objects. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end).\nExamples:\n\n  - A date-time: \"2018-02-12T23:20:50Z\"\n  - A bounded interval: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Half-bounded intervals: \"2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/..\" or \"../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z\"\n  - Duration objects: \"P1M\" for data from the past month or \"PT36H\" for the last 36 hours\n\nOnly features that have a `last_modified` that intersects the value of datetime are selected.\n"
              title: Last modified date
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            monitoring_location_id:
              description: 'A unique identifier representing a single monitoring location. This corresponds to the `id` field in the `monitoring-locations` endpoint. Monitoring location IDs are created by combining the agency code of the agency responsible for the monitoring location (e.g. USGS) with the ID number of the monitoring location (e.g. 02238500), separated by a hyphen (e.g. USGS-02238500).

                '
              title: Monitoring location ID
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            parameter_code:
              description: 'Parameter codes are 5-digit codes used to identify the constituent measured and the units of measure. A complete list of parameter codes and associated groupings can be found at [https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items](https://api.waterdata.usgs.gov/ogcapi/v0/collections/parameter-codes/items).

                '
              title: Parameter code
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            parameter_description:
              description: 'A description of what the parameter code represents, as used by WDFN and other USGS data dissemination products.

                '
              title: Parameter description
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            parameter_name:
              description: A human-understandable name corresponding to `parameter_code`.
              title: Parameter name
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            reading_type:
              description: 'Distinguishes field-measurement readings from measurements. Readings have a value of ReferencePrimary; measurements are Discharge or MeanGageHeight.

                '
              title: Reading type
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
          type: object
        type:
          enum:
          - Feature
          type: string
      required:
      - type
      - properties
      type: object
    queryables:
      properties:
        queryables:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/queryable'
          type: array
      required:
      - queryables
      type: object
    queryable:
      properties:
        description:
          description: a human-readable narrative describing the queryable
          type: string
        language:
          default: en
          description: the language used for the title and description
          type: string
        queryable:
          description: the token that may be used in a CQL predicate
          type: string
        title:
          description: a human readable title for the queryable
          type: string
        type:
          description: the data type of the queryable
          type: string
        type-ref:
          description: a reference to the formal definition of the type
          format: url
          type: string
      required:
      - queryable
      - type
      type: object
    FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeatureCollection:
      properties:
        features:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeature'
          type: array
        links:
          items:
            $ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/ogcapi/features/part1/1.0/openapi/ogcapi-features-1.yaml#/components/schemas/link
          type: array
        numberMatched:
          minimum: 0
          type: integer
        numberReturned:
          minimum: 0
          type: integer
        timeStamp:
          format: date-time
          type: string
        type:
          enum:
          - FeatureCollection
          type: string
      required:
      - type
      - features
      type: object
    Error:
      properties:
        error:
          properties:
            code:
              description: Error code such as OVER_RATE_LIMIT, see https://api.data.gov/docs/developer-manual/#general-web-service-errors
              type: string
            message:
              description: Error message
              type: string
          required:
          - code
          - message
          type: object
      type: object
  responses:
    FieldMeasurementsMetadataFeatures:
      content:
        application/geo+json:
          example:
            features:
            - geometry:
                coordinates:
                - -88.01
                - 44.5286111111111
                type: Point
              id: WDA-STABLE-SE

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