A Web Coverage Service (WCS) is an open specification for serving one- or multi-dimensional raster data over the web. A WCS service delivers raster data and cell values, such as elevation values from a digital elevation model (DEM) or pixel values from a multiband image. You can connect to an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) WCS service in ArcGIS Pro by creating a WCS service connection.
Add a WCS server connection
To add a WCS server connection, complete the following steps:
- On the Insert tab, in the Project group, click the Connections button, click Server, and click New WCS Server
.The Add WCS Server Connection dialog box appears.
- Type the URL of the WCS server site you want to connect to in the Server URL text box.
The URL varies depending on the site configuration.
- From the Version drop-down menu, select the WCS version you want to connect to.
The default version connects to the highest number version supported on the server.
- If the WCS service you are connecting to has additional capabilities or you want to set an ArcGIS Pro client-specific property for the WCS server connection, expand the Custom request parameters section and type the custom request parameters specific to this WCS server as a parameter list.
ArcGIS Pro cannot validate these additional parameters.
- If applicable, authenticate the service by doing one of the following:
- If the service is secured using basic authentication, on the Authentication drop-down menu, click Server Authentication, and type the username and password. To save the username and password to Windows Credential Manager or in the connection file, check the options under the Save Login heading.
- If the service is secured using OAuth 2.0 based authentication, on the Authentication drop-down menu, click the appropriate connection from the drop-down list. See Connect to authentication providers from ArcGIS Pro to learn how to add a connection to authentication providers if one is not available. If necessary, click Sign In to authenticate the connection with the provider.
- Click OK.
A WCS connection file (.wcs) is created and saved in the project's home folder. An item referencing this connection file is added to the project, and the connection appears in the Servers folder on the Project tab of the Catalog pane.
- Expand the WCS connection to view the coverages in the WCS service, right-click a coverage and click an option on the Add To New drop-down menu, or click Add To Current Map
to add the WCS layer to the map. You can also add the service to the map by dragging it onto the map or into the Contents pane.
WCS services allow you to add each individual coverage as a layer. To select a group of coverages, press Shift and click the first and last coverage in the group you want to add. You can also select nonsequential coverages by pressing Ctrl while clicking each individual coverage. After selecting the coverages you want, right-click the selected coverages and choose to add them to either the current map or scene or a new map or scene.