Web Coverage Service

This standard offers multi-dimensional coverage data for access over the Internet. WCS Core specifies a core set of requirements that a WCS implementation must fulfill. The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) supports electronic retrieval of geospatial data as “coverages.” Coverages are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, specifically spatio-temporal regular and irregular grids, point clouds, and general meshes. Core requirements are mandatory for any implementation claiming to be conformant with WCS. Extensions to the core define extensions to meet additional requirements, such as the response encoding. Additional extensions are required in order to completely specify a WCS for implementation.

A Web Coverage Service (WCS) offers multi-dimensional coverage data for access over the Internet. WCS Core specifies a core set of requirements that a WCS implementation must fulfil.

WCS Spec Hierachy

2) Documents

WCS service model

VersionDocument Title (click to download)Document #Type
2.1Core:  
 OGC® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard – Core, version 2.117-089r1IS
2.0Core:  
 OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.109-110r4IS
 Service Extensions:  
 OGC® Web Coverage Service Interface Standard – Transaction Extension13-057r1IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Range Subsetting Extension, version 1.0.012-040IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Scaling Extension, version 1.0.012-039IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – CRS Extension, version 1.0.011-053r1IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Interpolation Extension, version 1.0.012-049IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Processing Extension, version 2.0.008-059r4IS
 Protocol Extensions:  
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.109-147r3IS
 OGC® WCS – XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.009-148r1IS
 OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – XML/SOAP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.009-149r1IS
 Application Profiles:  
 OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 0 MetOcean Metadata15-045r7IS
 OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 1 MetOcean GetCorridor Extension v1.015-108r3IS
 OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 2 MetOcean GetPolygon Extension v1.017-086r3IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.110-140r2IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.010-140r1IS

Coverage data model

VersionDocument Title (click to download)Document #Type
 Core:  
1.1.1Coverage Implementation Schema with Corrigendum(“CIS”)09-146r8ISc
1.0.1Coverage Implementation Schema (“CIS”), formerly named:
GML 3.2.1 Application Schema – Coverages (“GMLCOV”)
09-146r2SAP
 Format encoding extensions:  
1.0OGC® GML Application Schema – Coverages : GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile16-060r2IS
1.0.1OGC® GML Application Schema – Coverages – GeoTIFF Coverage Encoding Profile12-100r1IS
1.0.0OGC® GML Application Schema – Coverages JPEG2000 Coverage Encoding Extension12-108 IS
2.0CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using GML Coverage Application Schema14-100r2IS 
 Data model extensions:  
1.0.1OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension with Corrigendum16-083r3ISC 
1.0OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension16-083r2IS 

Deprecated OGC standards

VersionDocument Title (click to download)Document #Type
2.0   
 OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.009-110r3D-IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.009-147r1IS
 OGC® WCS Interface Standard – XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.009-148r1IS
 OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Processing Extension, version 1.0.008-059r3IS
 WCS Processing Extension (WCPS) Abstract Test Suite (1.0.0)08-053r2TS
1.1   
 Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard, version 1.1.207-067r5D-IS
 OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.107-067r2D-IS
 OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.006-083r8D-IS
 Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1 extension for CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding (0.2.2)09-018DP
 OGC® WCS – Transaction operation extension, version 1.1.407-068r4IS
1.0   
 OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0.005-076D-IS
 OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.003-065r6D-IS
0.7   
 Web Coverage Service02-024D-RP

Supportive documents (not standards)

VersionDocument Title (click to download)Document #Type
1.0OGC® GML Application Schema – Coverages JPEG2000/JPIP Coverage Encoding Extension14-110r2BP
 OGC WCS 2.0.1 Corrigendum Release Notes12-052Notes
 Corrigendum 2 for the OGC Standard Web Coverage Service 1.1 (1.1.2)07-066r5Notes
 Change Request: WCS: Add Transaction operation (1.1.0)06-043r3CR
 Change Request: WCS: Proposal for WCS Transactional – WCS-T (1.0)06-098CR
 OWS-5 WCS JPIP Coverage Subsetting Engineering Report, version 0.9.007-169DP
 WCS Change Request: Support for WSDL & SOAP, version 0.1.004-049r1D-DP
 OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Engineering Report11-096PER
 OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Compliance Tests Engineering Report11-095r1PER