Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Instance metadata API
Description of the information available from the instances of a collection
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard Instance…
description: Example of OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard OpenAPI document
version: 1.1.0
license:
name: OGC License
url: https://www.ogc.org/legal
servers:
- url: https://example.org/edr
description: Example OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval server
tags:
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