Summary of Cadcorp SIS WCS client testing, 8th February 2006

Unidata/THREDDS Data Server

http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/wcs/testdata/sst.nc

• Success with "GeoTIFF" and "GeoTIFFfloat" responses (including "Time Position"-based requests).
• Partial success with "NetCDF3" response: netCDF read OK, but geo-referencing incorrect.

Univ of Florence and IMAA-CNR/WCS-G Server

http://athena.pin.unifi.it:8080/galeon/WCS-v1.0?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WCS

• GetCapabilities OK.
• DescribeCoverage response contains unrecognised CRS information.
  • Request:
    • http://athena.pin.unifi.it:8080/galeon/WCS-v1.0?REQUEST=DescribeCoverage&SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&COVERAGE=sst(time-lat-lon)
  • Response (snippet):
    • <requestResponseCRSs>EPSG</requestResponseCRSs>
  • The Cadcorp SIS WCS client expects, for example, "EPSG:4326".

GMU/NWGISS Server

http://data.laits.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/tsunami/wcs100

• Success with "GeoTIFF" and "HDF-EOS" responses. However, the service uses an AxisDescription/values element containing a single <interval>. Should this be several, i.e. 3, <singleValue> elements instead?
• Failure with "NITF".
  • This request generated an HTTP 500 error.
    • http://data.laits.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/tsunami/wcs100?SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCoverage&COVERAGE=/data4/TSUNAMI/SV5_BEFORE_ANDAMAN_WEST_q.tif.hdf:Grid:SV5_BEFORE_ANDAMAN_WEST_q:SV5_BEFORE_ANDAMAN_WEST_q&Band=1/3&CRS=EPSG%3a32646&BBOX=415960,1236070,456155,1310620&FORMAT=NITF&INTERPOLATION=nearest+neighbor&RESX=50&RESY=50&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml

• Could not test with netCDF because it is not listed as a supported format.
  • http://data.laits.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/tsunami/wcs100?REQUEST=DescribeCoverage&SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&COVERAGE=/data4/TSUNAMI/SV5_BEFORE_ANDAMAN_WEST_q.tif.hdf:Grid:SV5_BEFORE_ANDAMAN_WEST_q:SV5_BEFORE_ANDAMAN_WEST_q

International U of Bremen/RASDAMAN

• Could not test because this service has a SOAP-only interface.

JPL/Oceanography

• Could not test because I could not find the service URL.