Hi, WCS is mean to be a service delivering grid based data. Raster images are such, but it gets much more interesting with satellite images with more than 3 bands or with some scanner data with hundreds of channels. Or meteorological data that has three dimensions for place plus one for time and then however many bands for the sensor data.
We have not used WCS for anything special, but WCS 1.0.0 is pretty handy for delivering aerial images in original resolution in GeoTIFF format. Most often we are sending ready made URLs or URL templates for our customers and they are using wget as a WCS client. They can also use OpenJUMP for drawing the regions of interest on top of any background map. Once they are ready with ROIs a simple Java bean script creates corresponding download URLs for them. -Jukka Rahkonen- Ariel Nunez wrote: > > I use it to get metadata and download the full raster file for analysis, both > with the owslib python library [1] and constructing the url requests manually > (to avoid too many HTTP calls) [2]: > > > Another client that is moving pretty fast is the QGIS one, you can find > Radim's > work here but may have to compile QGIS manually to try it out [3] > > Ariel. > > [1] https://github.com/ingenieroariel/geonode- > safe/blob/master/geonode_safe/storage.py#L185 > [2] https://github.com/ingenieroariel/geonode- > safe/blob/master/geonode_safe/utilities.py#L34 > [3] https://github.com/blazek/Quantum-GIS/commits/wcs > > > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Robert Buckley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So who uses wcs and how? > > > > ________________________________ > > Von: Andrea Aime <[email protected]> > > An: Robert Buckley <[email protected]> > > CC: "[email protected]" > > <[email protected]> > > Gesendet: 15:50 Mittwoch, 15.August 2012 > > Betreff: Re: [Geoserver-users] Which web WCS Clients are there? > > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Robert Buckley > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for web wsc clients. OpenLayers (afaik) does not have a > > wcs getfeatureinfo class. > > > > Are there any api´s which can do this? > > > > > > I don't believe so, since the formats typically returned by WCS cannot > > be handled by the browser. > > The WCS 1.1 idea of returning a mime/multipart document instead of a > > raw file also makes things quite a bit complicated, too... > > > > Cheers > > Andrea > > > > > > -- > > == > > Our support, Your Success! Visit http://opensdi.geo-solutions.it for > > more information. > > == > > > > Ing. Andrea Aime > > @geowolf > > Technical Lead > > > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > > Italy > > phone: +39 0584 962313 > > fax: +39 0584 962313 > > mob: +39 339 8844549 > > > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > > http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > Live Security Virtual Conference > > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. > > Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the > > latest in malware threats. > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Geoserver-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat > landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will > include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
