OGC WCS Standard | Web Coverage Service Specification

OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Standard

This standard offers multi-dimensional coverage data for access over the Internet. WCS Core specifies a core set of requirements that a WCS implementation must fulfill. The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) supports electronic retrieval of geospatial data as “coverages.” Coverages are digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena, specifically spatio-temporal regular and irregular grids, point clouds, and general meshes. Core requirements are mandatory for any implementation claiming to be conformant with WCS. Extensions to the core define extensions to meet additional requirements, such as the response encoding. Additional extensions are required in order to completely specify a WCS for implementation.

Official model files and encoding schemas

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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 fulfil.

2) Documents

WCS service model

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
2.1	Core:
	OGC® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard – Core, version 2.1	17-089r1	IS
2.0	Core:
	OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.1	09-110r4	IS
	Service Extensions:
	OGC® Web Coverage Service Interface Standard – Transaction Extension	13-057r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Range Subsetting Extension, version 1.0.0	12-040	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Scaling Extension, version 1.0.0	12-039	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – CRS Extension, version 1.0.0	11-053r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Interpolation Extension, version 1.1.0	24-018r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Interpolation Extension, version 1.0.0	12-049	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Processing Extension, version 2.0.0	08-059r4	IS
	Protocol Extensions:
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.1	09-147r3	IS
	OGC® WCS – XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-148r1	IS
	OGC® Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – XML/SOAP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-149r1	IS
	Application Profiles:
	OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 0 MetOcean Metadata	15-045r7	IS
	OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 1 MetOcean GetCorridor Extension v1.0	15-108r3	IS
	OGC® MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 2 MetOcean GetPolygon Extension v1.0	17-086r3	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.1	10-140r2	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.0	10-140r1	IS

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

Version	Document Title (click to download)	Document #	Type
2.0
	OGC® WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.0	09-110r3	D-IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-147r1	IS
	OGC® WCS Interface Standard – XML/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0	09-148r1	IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Processing Extension, version 1.0.0	08-059r3	IS
	WCS Processing Extension (WCPS) Abstract Test Suite (1.0.0)	08-053r2	TS
1.1
	Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard, version 1.1.2	07-067r5	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.1	07-067r2	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0	06-083r8	D-IS
	Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1 extension for CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding (0.2.2)	09-018	DP
	OGC® WCS – Transaction operation extension, version 1.1.4	07-068r4	IS
1.0
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0.0	05-076	D-IS
	OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0	03-065r6	D-IS
0.7
	Web Coverage Service	02-024	D-RP

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