WCS Describe Coverage Document For Points

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WCS_Describe_Coverage_Document_For_Points Description: The document describes the coverage in detail, so that the user knows what the data is and what are the dimensions of the data.

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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>