Web Coverage Service
1) Overview
2) Downloads
3) Related News
1) Overview
This document specifies how a Web Coverage Service (WCS) offers multi-dimensional coverage data for access over the Internet. This document specifies a core set of requirements that a WCS implementation must fulfill. WCS extension standards add further functionality to this core; some of these are required in addition to the core to obtain a complete implementation. This document indicates which extensions, at a minimum, need to be considered in ad-dition to this core to allow for a complete WCS implementation. This core does not prescribe support for any particular coverage encoding format. This also holds for GML as a coverage delivery format: while GML constitutes the canonical format for the definition of WCS, it is not required by this core that a concrete instance of a WCS service implements the GML coverage format. WCS extensions specifying use of data encoding formats in the context of WCS are designed in a way that the GML coverage information contents specified in this core is consistent with the contents of an encoded coverage.
2) Downloads
Active OGC standards:
WCS service model:
Coverage data model:
| Version | Document Title (click to download) | Document # | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core: | |||
| 1.0.1 | Coverage Implementation Schema ("CIS"), formerly named: GML 3.2.1 Application Schema - Coverages ("GMLCOV") |
09-146r2 | SAP |
| Format encoding extensions: | |||
| 1.0.1 | OGC® GML Application Schema - Coverages - GeoTIFF Coverage Encoding Profile | 12-100r1 | IS |
| 1.0.0 | OGC® GML Application Schema - Coverages JPEG2000 Coverage Encoding Extension | 12-108 | IS |
| 2.0 | CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using GML Coverage Application Schema | 14-100r2 | IS |
Deprecated OGC standards:
Supportive documents (not standards):
| Version | Document Title (click to download) | Document # | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | OGC® GML Application Schema - Coverages JPEG2000/JPIP Coverage Encoding Extension | 14-110r2 | BP |
| OGC WCS 2.0.1 Corrigendum Release Notes | 12-052 | Notes | |
| Corrigendum 2 for the OGC Standard Web Coverage Service 1.1 (1.1.2) | 07-066r5 | Notes | |
| Change Request: WCS: Add Transaction operation (1.1.0) | 06-043r3 | CR | |
| Change Request: WCS: Proposal for WCS Transactional - WCS-T (1.0) | 06-098 | CR | |
| OWS-5 WCS JPIP Coverage Subsetting Engineering Report, version 0.9.0 | 07-169 | DP | |
| WCS Change Request: Support for WSDL & SOAP, version 0.1.0 | 04-049r1 | D-DP | |
| OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Engineering Report | 11-096 | PER | |
| OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Compliance Tests Engineering Report | 11-095r1 | PER |
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