Use Case 1: Discover and plot data from common sensor types automatically -> e.g., via SOS Services 1. Portal presents a category "CTD" for a user to get data from a CTD sensor 2. Users goes to a portal and searches data from CTD sensors 3. Portal asks a registry for Sensor Observation Services which have as a method a CTD sensor [ need a URI to categorize this type ] 4. Registry looks for services whose method is a CTD sensor [URI of CTD ] 5. Registry returns services that uses a CTD sensor [ that matches the URI of the CTD ] 6. Portal uses the service information retrieve from the registry to get the data. 7. Portal knows how to plot CTD data and presents a preview to the user The term 'CTD' could be replaced by vertical profiler or any other type of sensor.