Web Coverage Service

Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard

1) Overview
2) Downloads
3) Official Schemas
4) Related News

1) Overview

The OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service Interface Standard (WCS) defines a standard interface and operations that enables interoperable access to geospatial "coverages" [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary/c]. The term "grid coverages" typically refers to content such as satellite images, digital aerial photos, digital elevation data, and other phenomena represented by values at each measurement point.

2) Downloads

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
1.1.2	Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard	07-067r5	IS
	Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1 extension for CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding (0.2.2)	09-018	DP
	Corrigendum 2 for the OGC Standard Web Coverage Service 1.1 (1.1.2)	07-066r5	Notes
1.1.0	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification	06-083r8	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification Corrigendum 1 (1.1.1 c1)	07-067r2	D-IS
	Change Request: WCS: Add Transaction operation (1.1.0)	06-043r3	CR
1.0	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification	03-065r6	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification (Corrigendum) (1.0.0)	05-076	D-IS
	Change Request: WCS: Proposal for WCS Transactional - WCS-T (1.0)	06-098	CR
0.7	Web Coverage Service	02-024	D-RP
1.0.0	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Processing Extension (WCPS)	08-059r3	IS
	WCS Processing Extension (WCPS) Abstract Test Suite (1.0.0)	08-053r2	TS
1.1.4	Web Coverage Service (WCS) - Transaction operation extension	07-068r4	IS
0.1.0	WCS Change Request: Support for WSDL & SOAP	04-049r1	D-DP
0.9.0	OWS-5 WCS JPIP Coverage Subsetting Engineering Report	07-169	DP

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3) Official Schemas

http://schemas.opengis.net/wcs/

Note: You may also download All Official OGC Schemas in a single zip file.

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