Web Coverage Service
1) Overview
2) Downloads
3) Related News
1) 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:
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 |
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