{"id":18169,"date":"2023-02-09T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=standards&p=4762"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:14:39","slug":"wcs","status":"publish","type":"standards","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/standards\/wcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Coverage Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Web Coverage Service<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n

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 \u201ccoverages.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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2) Documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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WCS service model<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Version<\/th>Document Title (click to download)<\/th>Document #<\/th>Type<\/th><\/tr>
2.1<\/td>Core:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard – Core<\/a>, version 2.1<\/td>17-089r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
2.0<\/td>Core:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS 2.0 Interface Standard – Core, version 2.0.1<\/a><\/td>09-110r4<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Service Extensions:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae Web Coverage Service Interface Standard \u2013 Transaction Extension<\/a><\/td>13-057r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – Range Subsetting Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>12-040<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – Scaling Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>12-039<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard \u2013 CRS Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>11-053r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – Interpolation Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/a><\/td>12-049<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – Processing Extension, version 2.0.0<\/a><\/td>08-059r4<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Protocol Extensions:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.1<\/a><\/td>09-147r3<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS – XML\/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>09-148r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae Web Coverage Service 2.0 Interface Standard – XML\/SOAP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>09-149r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Application Profiles:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 0 MetOcean Metadata<\/a><\/td>15-045r7<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 1 MetOcean GetCorridor Extension v1.0<\/a><\/td>15-108r3<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae MetOcean Application profile for WCS2.1: Part 2 MetOcean GetPolygon Extension v1.0<\/a><\/td>17-086r3<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.1<\/a><\/td>10-140r2<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – Earth Observation Application Profile, version 1.0<\/a><\/td>10-140r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Coverage data model<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Version<\/th>Document Title (click to download)<\/th>Document #<\/th>Type<\/th><\/tr>
 <\/td>Core:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1.1.1<\/td>Coverage Implementation Schema with Corrigendum(“CIS”)<\/a><\/td>09-146r8<\/td>ISc<\/td><\/tr>
1.0.1<\/td>Coverage Implementation Schema (“CIS”)<\/a>, formerly named:
GML 3.2.1 Application Schema – Coverages (“GMLCOV”)<\/td>		09-146r2<\/td>SAP<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Format encoding extensions:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1.0<\/td>OGC\u00ae GML Application Schema \u2013 Coverages : GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile<\/a><\/td>16-060r2<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
1.0.1<\/td>OGC\u00ae GML Application Schema – Coverages – GeoTIFF Coverage Encoding Profile<\/a><\/td>12-100r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
1.0.0<\/td>OGC\u00ae GML Application Schema – Coverages JPEG2000 Coverage Encoding Extension<\/a><\/td>12-108 <\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
2.0<\/td>CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding using GML Coverage Application Schema<\/a><\/td>14-100r2<\/td>IS <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Data model extensions:<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1.0.1<\/td>OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension with Corrigendum<\/a><\/td>16-083r3<\/td>ISC <\/td><\/tr>
1.0<\/td>OGC Coverage Implementation Schema – ReferenceableGridCoverage Extension<\/a><\/td>16-083r2<\/td>IS <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Deprecated OGC standards<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Version<\/th>Document Title (click to download)<\/th>Document #<\/th>Type<\/th><\/tr>
2.0<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS 2.0 Interface Standard \u2013 Core, version 2.0.0<\/a><\/td>09-110r3<\/td>D-IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – KVP Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>09-147r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS Interface Standard – XML\/POST Protocol Binding Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>09-148r1<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) – Processing Extension, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>08-059r3<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>WCS Processing Extension (WCPS) Abstract Test Suite (1.0.0)<\/a><\/td>08-053r2<\/td>TS<\/td><\/tr>
1.1<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard, version 1.1.2<\/a><\/td>07-067r5<\/td>D-IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.1<\/a><\/td>07-067r2<\/td>D-IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0<\/a><\/td>06-083r8<\/td>D-IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1 extension for CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding (0.2.2)<\/a><\/td>09-018<\/td>DP<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC\u00ae WCS – Transaction operation extension, version 1.1.4<\/a><\/td>07-068r4<\/td>IS<\/td><\/tr>
1.0<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0.0<\/a><\/td>05-076<\/td>D-IS<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification, version 1.0<\/a><\/td>03-065r6<\/td>D-IS<\/td><\/tr>
0.7<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Web Coverage Service<\/a><\/td>02-024<\/td>D-RP<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Supportive documents (not standards)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Version<\/th>Document Title (click to download)<\/th>Document #<\/th>Type<\/th><\/tr>
1.0<\/td>OGC\u00ae GML Application Schema – Coverages JPEG2000\/JPIP Coverage Encoding Extension<\/a><\/td>14-110r2<\/td>BP<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OGC WCS 2.0.1 Corrigendum Release Notes<\/a><\/td>12-052<\/td>Notes<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Corrigendum 2 for the OGC Standard Web Coverage Service 1.1 (1.1.2)<\/a><\/td>07-066r5<\/td>Notes<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Change Request: WCS: Add Transaction operation (1.1.0)<\/a><\/td>06-043r3<\/td>CR<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>Change Request: WCS: Proposal for WCS Transactional – WCS-T (1.0)<\/a><\/td>06-098<\/td>CR<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OWS-5 WCS JPIP Coverage Subsetting Engineering Report, version 0.9.0<\/a><\/td>07-169<\/td>DP<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>WCS Change Request: Support for WSDL & SOAP, version 0.1.0<\/a><\/td>04-049r1<\/td>D-DP<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Engineering Report<\/a><\/td>11-096<\/td>PER<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>OWS-8 WCS 2.0 Earth Observation Application Profile Compliance Tests Engineering Report<\/a><\/td>11-095r1<\/td>PER<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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