OGC extensions to Web Coverage Service Standard improve access to Earth data
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OGC extensions to Web Coverage Service Standard improve access to Earth data

29 May 2014 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Membership has approved six OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard extensions as official OGC standards. These WCS extensions significantly expand the ability of researchers, environmental managers, disaster managers, policy advisers and others to access the world's network-distributed Earth imaging data resources.

The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard defines an interface for requesting coverage data, such as sensor data, satellite imagery, image time series, point clouds, and TINs (triangulated irregular networks). The six new WCS Extensions specify standard mechanisms for providing additional control over the processing of a coverage during its server-side processing:

All OGC standards are free and publicly available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards. An overview, and downloads of the complete WCS suite are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs.

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact


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