Introduction The OGC defines an Web Coverage Service (WCS) Collection Extension –Coverage extension to the WCS Core [OGC 09-110r] to the collection and description of coverage collections during processing of a new request. DescribeCoverageCollection Note As such, this CoverageCollection Extension has impact on the operational behaviour and in particular the response to a GetCapabilities response. The concept of collections” is well established so given that a is a type of “feature “coverage” feature then the extension for is easy to understand. Each will have an identifier that will “” be exposed in the response document. “GetCapabilities” Support for coverage collections are reported by the service in its response. GetCapabilities
Introduction The OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) –Coverage Collection Extension defines an extension to the WCS Core [OGC 09-110r] to the collection and description of coverage collections during processing of a new DescribeCoverageCollection request. Note As such, this CoverageCollection Extension has impact on the operational behaviour and in particular the response to a GetCapabilities response. The concept of “feature collections” is well established so given that a “coverage” is a type of feature then the extension for is easy to understand. Each “” will have an identifier that will be exposed in the “GetCapabilities” response document. Support for coverage collections are reported by the service in its GetCapabilities response.
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