Web Coverage Service

The specification defines three operations:

# The GetCapabilities operation returns an XML document de-scribing the service and brief descriptions of the data collections from which clients may request coverages.
# The DescribeCoverage operation lets clients request a full description of one or more coverages served by a particular WCS server. The server responds with an XML docu-ment that fully describes the identified coverages.
# The GetCoverage operation returns a coverage (that is, values or properties of a set of geographic locations), bundled in a well-known coverage format. The GetCoverage operation of a Web Coverage Service is normally run after GetCapabilities and DescribeCoverage replies have shown what requests are allowed and what data are available. {Link without Title}

EXTERNAL LINKS

WCS Implementation Specification (PDF)

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

REFERENCES

OpenGIS Specification List

WCS Implementation Specification

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Web Coverage Service