The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) seeks public comment on the draft OGC Web Coverage Services (WCS) Interface Standard Version 2.0.  The OGC WCS standard supports electronic retrieval of geospatial data as 'coverages' - that is, digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena such as satellite imagery or digital elevation models. WCS 2.0 is harmonized with the Geography Markup Language coverage model, leading to increased interoperability across OGC standards. Further, WCS 2.0 is highly modular and follows the core/extension design pattern, which allows for standard that is
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