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WCS

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Providers using this tag (4)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Sentinel HubSentinel Hub by Sinergise is a cloud-based satellite imagery processing platform providing REST APIs for ac...26 APIs42.1
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
DLRThe German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Observation Center (EOC) provides public APIs for accessing Earth o...10 APIs38.0European Space Agency (ESA)The European Space Agency (ESA) provides public REST and standards-based APIs spanning Copernicus Earth obs...18 APIs35.3JAXAJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) provides public APIs and data services for satellite Earth observ...8 APIs29.4

APIs with this tag (7)

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Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Sentinel Hub OGC ServicesOGC-standard web services (WMS, WCS, WFS, WMTS) for integrating Sentinel Hub satellite imagery into GIS app...42.1
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
EOC Basemap Web Coverage Service (WCS)OGC Web Coverage Service for DLR basemap and reference datasets including the SRTM X-SAR global digital ele...38.0EOC Imagery Web Coverage Service (WCS)OGC Web Coverage Service providing direct download and extraction of coverage data for DLR Earth observatio...38.0EOWEB GeoPortal APIMulti-mission web portal API for interactive access to the DLR Earth observation data holdings including br...38.0Copernicus OGC API (WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS)OGC-compliant web services providing seamless satellite data access through standard GIS applications. Expo...35.3G-Portal Web APIOGC-compliant web services for searching and accessing JAXA Earth observation satellite products from missi...29.4JAXA WCS APIWeb Coverage Service - retrieve raw coverage/raster data from satellite datasets29.4

Score breakdown

Frequency
24.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
43.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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