Web Coverage Service

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

1) Overview

The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) supports electronic retrieval of geospatial data as "coverages" – that is, digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phe-nomena. This document specifies the WCS core; every implementation of a WCS shall adhere to this standard. This standard thus defines only basic requirements. Extensions to the core will define extensions to meet additional requirements, such as the response encoding. Indeed, additional extensions are required in order to completely specify a WCS for implementation. A WCS provides access to coverage data in forms that are useful for client-side rendering, as input into scientific models, and for other clients. The WCS may be compared to the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) [4] and the Web Map Service (WMS) [5]. As WMS and WFS service instances, a WCS allows clients to choose portions of a server's information holdings based on spatial constraints and other query criteria.

2) Downloads

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
2.0	OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard - Core	09-110r3	IS
	OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard- Core: Corrigendum (2.0.1)	09-110r4	ISC
	OGC WCS 2.0.1 Corrigendum Release Notes	12-052	Notes
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard - KVP Protocol Binding Extension (2.0)	09-147r1	D-IS
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard - KVP Protocol Binding Extension - Corrigendum (1.0.1)	09-147r3	ISC
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Primer: Core and Extensions Overview (2.0)	09-153r1	BP
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard - XML/SOAP Protocol Binding Extension (2.0)	09-149r1	IS
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard - XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension (2.0)	09-148r1	IS
1.1.2	Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard	07-067r5	D-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)	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
	OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Engineering Report	11-096	PER
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
	OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Compliance Tests Engineering Report	11-095r1	PER
0.9.0	OWS-5 WCS JPIP Coverage Subsetting Engineering Report	07-169	DP