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.

WCS Spec Hierachy

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Active OGC standards:

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

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