The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. announces adoption and availability of the OpenGis Web Coverage Processing Service Interface Standard. The WCPS specification is available at www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps.
The OpenGis Web Coverage Service Interface Standard defines a protocol-independent language for the extraction, processing, and analysis of multi-dimensional gridded coverages representing sensor, image, or statistics data. Services implementing this language provide access to original or derived sets of geospatial coverage information, in forms that are useful for client-siderendering, input into scientific models, and other client applications.
An online demonstration of WCPS with 1-D to 4-D use cases encompassing environmental sensor data, remote sensing, geophysics, and climate data is available at www.earthlook.org.
The OGC is an international consortium of more than 370 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGis Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream It. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org.