WCS_intro_slides.ipynb

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    "Getting started with...\n",
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    "# OGC WEB COVERAGE SERVICE (WCS)\n",
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    "<b>BUT</b> - before we start...\n",
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    "* <h3>who is familiar with WMS?</h3>"
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    "* <h3>who knows WCS?</h3>"
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    "* <h3>who has already worked with WCS?</h3>"
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    "The Web Coverage Service is defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (2012):\n",
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    "*<h2 align=\"center\"><b> The OGC WCS supports electronic retrieval of geospatial data as 'coverages' -  <br> that is, digital geospatial information representing space/time varying phenomena</b></h2>*\n",
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    "<p align=\"center\">Therefore, WCS is a standard data -access protocol that defines and enables web-based retrieval of multi-dimensional geospatial datasets.</p>\n"
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    "Let's picture WCS within in the common OGC web service suite...\n",
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    "<br>\n",
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    "![Overview OGC web service suite](./img/ogc_webservice_suite_0.jpg)"
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    "![Overview OGC web service suite](./img/ogc_webservice_suite_4.jpg)"
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    "![Overview OGC web service suite](./img/ogc_webservice_suite.jpg)"
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    "*<h2 align=\"center\"><b> Unlike Web Mapping Service (WMS), which returns spatial data as an image, WCS returns data in its raw form, with its original semantics.</b></h2>*\n",
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    "<br>\n",
    "This allows for further web-based data processing or the building of web applications."
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    "What about WC**P**S?\n",
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    "*<h2 align=\"center\"><b> A Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) is an extension supported by the WCS 2.0 core specification and can optionally be implemented by a WCS server.</b></h2>*"
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    "Enough theory... Let's see how it looks like in real...\n",
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    "\n",
    " <h3 align=\"center\"><a href='https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/earthserver-eu/INSPIRE-notebooks/blob/master/index.ipynb'>Go to workshop</a></h3>"
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