Web Coverage Service

Overview

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 fulfill.

More information on spatio temporal coverage / datacube standards can be found at http://myogc.org/go/coveragesDWG, including tutorials and webinars, conformance testing, background information, and updates on standardization progress.

2) Downloads

Active OGC standards:

WCS service model:

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
2.1	Core:
	OGC® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard – Core, version 2.1	17-089r1	IS
2.0	Core:
	OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.1	09-110r4	IS
	Service Extensions:
	OGC® Web Coverage Service Interface Standard – Transaction Extension	13-057r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Range Subsetting Extension, version 1.0.0	12-040	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Scaling Extension, version 1.0.0	12-039	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – CRS Extension, version 1.0.0	11-053r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Interpolation Extension, version 1.0.0	12-049	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Processing Extension, version 2.0.0	08-059r4	IS
	Protocol Extensions:
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.1	09-147r3	IS
	OGC® WCS – XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-148r1	IS
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – XML/SOAP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-149r1	IS
	Application Profiles:
	OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 0 MetOcean Metadata	15-045r7	IS
	OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 1 MetOcean GetCorridor Extension v1.0	15-108r3	IS
	OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 2 MetOcean GetPolygon Extension v1.0	17-086r3	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.1	10-140r2	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.0	10-140r1	IS

Coverage data model:

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
	Core:
1.1.1	Coverage Implementation Schema with Corrigendum(“CIS”)	09-146r8	ISc
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	OGC® GML Application Schema – Coverages : GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile	16-060r2	IS
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
	Data model extensions:
1.0.1	OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension with Corrigendum	16-083r3	ISC
1.0	OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension	16-083r2	IS

Deprecated OGC standards:

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
2.0
	OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.0	09-110r3	D-IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-147r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-148r1	IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Processing Extension, version 1.0.0	08-059r3	IS
	WCS Processing Extension (WCPS) Abstract Test Suite (1.0.0)	08-053r2	TS
1.1
	Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard, version 1.1.2	07-067r5	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.1	07-067r2	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0	06-083r8	D-IS
	Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1 extension for CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding (0.2.2)	09-018	DP
	OGC® WCS – Transaction operation extension, version 1.1.4	07-068r4	IS
1.0
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0.0	05-076	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0	03-065r6	D-IS
0.7
	Web Coverage Service	02-024	D-RP

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

Official model files and encoding schemas

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Related links

• The OGC seeks comment on GML Coverages GeoTIFF extension and WCS 2.0 GeoTIFF extension standard 2012-11-16
• OGC Releases Discussion Papers: Uncertainty Markup Language and OGC WCS Extension for netCDF Weather Data 2010-04-09

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