An interoperable service definition for navigating, accessing, processing, and aggregation of coverages is provided by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Service (WCS).
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Web Coverage Service which offers a simple access protocol for coverage subsetting, as well as optional advanced functionality
This is an abstract query language (like SQL and XQuery) that is independent from any other OGC service standard.
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WCS format encodings allow to deliver coverages in various data format, such as GML, GeoTIFF, HDF-EOS, or NITF.
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