WCS Describe Coverage Document For Points
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WCS_Describe_Coverage_Document_For_Points Description: [[TermDesc::The document describes the coverage in detail, so that the user knows what the data is and what are the dimensions of the data.
National Climate Data Center ASOS DescribeCoverage
<CoverageDescription>
- Title=ASOS 1 minute data
- Abstract=none
- Identifier=ASOS
<ows11:Title>ASOS 1 minute data</ows11:Title> <Identifier>ASOS</Identifier>
- Latitude and Longitude bounds in EPSG:4326 and WGS 84 projections. This is regardless what the data projection is.
<ows11:WGS84BoundingBox crs="urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:2:84"> <ows11:LowerCorner>-180.0000 -90.0000</ows11:LowerCorner> <ows11:UpperCorner>+179.7500 +89.3830</ows11:UpperCorner> </ows11:WGS84BoundingBox>
- Time dimension
<TimePeriod> <BeginPosition>2009-01-01T00:00:00Z</BeginPosition> <EndPosition>2010-06-30T00:00:00Z</EndPosition> <TimeResolution>PT1M</TimeResolution> </TimePeriod>
- Fields of Coverage. The example is the first on the list.
<Field>
- Human Readable Title
<ows11:Title>Dew Point</ows11:Title>
- Machine Readable Identifier
<Identifier>DEWP</Identifier>
- Data Definition. Value can be any number, datatype is IEEE 32 bit float and Units Of Measure is Fahrenheit ratio
<Definition> <ows11:AnyValue/> <ows11:DataType>float</ows11:DataType> <ows11:UOM>F</ows11:UOM> </Definition>
- IEEE standard for not a number.
<NullValue>nan</NullValue>
- Currently no interpolation is allowed. List of Interpolations
<InterpolationMethods> <Default>none</Default> </InterpolationMethods>
- Location dimension
<Axis identifier="location">
- Datafed convention. The key is a WFS call to get the location table.
<AvailableKeys> <Key>http://128.252.202.19:8080/NCDC?service=WFS&Version=1.0.0&Request=GetFeature&typename=ASOS&filter=field:DEWP&outputFormat=text/csv</Key> </AvailableKeys>
- Human readable explanation for the dimension
<ows11:Meaning>location</ows11:Meaning> </Axis> </Field>
At the very end:
- Supported Coordinate Systems, at the very end, linear lat-lon urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 and lon-lat urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:2:84
<SupportedCRS>urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326</SupportedCRS> <SupportedCRS>urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:2:84</SupportedCRS>
- Supported Formats: The more natural text/csv is recommended and application/octet-stream is widely used legacy mime type for CSV.
<SupportedFormat>text/csv</SupportedFormat> <SupportedFormat>application/octet-stream</SupportedFormat>
</CoverageDescription>]]
Glossary Domain: {{{Glossary Domain}}}"{{{Glossary Domain}}}" is not in the list (WCS, HTAP, AQInfrastructure) of allowed values for the "Glossary Domain" property.
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