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This online course is designed to introduce you to the various components of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, their functionality, and the standards and specifications necessary to implement them.

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Web Coverage Service

Endorsed Specification
Description
 

The Web Coverage Service (WCS) provides access to intact, raw data such as imagery, digital elevation matrix (DEM) and other types of gridded data. Unlike the Web Map Service (WMS), which returns static maps, the Web Coverage Service provides only data access. Typically client-side applications will model, analyze and render the data.

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Implementation Specification
 
Version
Date
Location
1.1  
2006.10.17  
1.0  
2003.10.16  

Open Geospatial Consortium
03-065r6.pdf

Geoconnections
web_coverage_service_1_0.pdf

 
Status
 
2007.06.14 Endorsed by CGDI Architectural Advisory Committee
Other Info
effective 2008.03.10