Get available layers from a web coverage service

The function sends a GetCapabilities query to a WCS service, parses the XML response, and returns a data.frame containing the names of the available layers and their descriptions.

Usage

get_wcs_layers(
  wcs = c("dtm", "dsm", "omz", "omw", "dhmv", "mercatornet"),
  version = c("1.0.0", "2.0.1"),
  ...
)

Arguments

wcs

One of "dtm", "dsm", "omz", "omw", "dhmv", "mercatornet"

version

WCS version to be used. Default is 1.0.0.

...

Additional key-value pairs passed on to the WCS query

Value

A data.frame object with columns layername and description.

Details

The following WCS services can currently be used:

• "omz": orthophotomosaic summer images Flanders

• "omw": orthophotomosaic winter images Flanders

• "dtm": digital terrain model Flanders

• "dsm": digital surface model Flanders

• "dhmv": digital elevation model Flanders (contains dtm and dsm data)

• "mercatornet": Public Download Service Flemish Government - department environment - cooperation MercatorNet For more information, see metadata Vlaanderen: https://metadata.vlaanderen.be/srv/eng/catalog.search#/search?any=WCS

See also

Other topics on using web services: add_wms_be_cartoweb(), add_wmts_nl_brt(), check_ogc_collection(), get_coverage_wcs(), get_feature_ogc(), get_feature_wfs()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_wcs_layers(wcs = "dsm")
get_wcs_layers(wcs = "omz", version = "2.0.1")
} # }