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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.
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Active OGC standards:
WCS service model:
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:
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
OGC Standards
- 3D Tiles
- 3dP
- ARML2.0
- Cat: ebRIM App Profile: Earth Observation Products
- Catalogue Service
- CDB
- CityGML
- CityJSON
- Coordinate Transformation
- EO-GeoJSON
- Filter Encoding
- GML in JPEG 2000
- GeoAPI
- GeoPackage
- GeoPose
- GeoSciML
- GeoSPARQL
- Geography Markup Language
- GeoRSS
- Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML)
- Geospatial User Feedback (GUF)
- GeoTiff
- GroundwaterML
- HDF5
- I3S
- Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)
- IndoorGML
- KML
- LandInfra/InfraGML
- LAS
- Location Services (OpenLS)
- Moving Features
- NetCDF
- Observations and Measurements
- OGC API – EDR
- OGC API – Common
- OGC API – Features
- OGC API – Processes
- OGC API – Tiles
- Open GeoSMS
- OpenMI
- OpenSearch
- Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products
- OWS Context
- OWS Security
- PipelineML
- PubSub
- PUCK
- SWE Common Data Model
- SWE Service Model
- Sensor Model Language
- Sensor Observation Service
- Sensor Planning Service
- SensorThings
- Semantic Sensor Network (SSN)
- Symbology Core
- Simple Features
- Simple Features CORBA
- Simple Features OLE/COM
- Simple Features SQL
- Styled Layer Descriptor
- Symbology Encoding
- Table Joining Service
- Time Ontology in OWL
- TimeseriesML (tsml)
- Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set
- WaterML
- Web Coverage Processing Service
- Web Coverage Service
- Web Feature Service
- Web Map Context
- Web Map Service
- Web Map Tile Service
- Web Processing Service
- Web Service Common
- WKT CRS
