WITHDRAWN:BGS EarthServer pilot

This service was created as part of the EU (FP7) funded EarthServer project. It provided the public facing WCS component of the Geology Data Service for this project. Other public facing components were available at: http://earthserver.bgs.ac.uk/. Services were discontinued in 2022.

Identification info

Alternate title: Earthserver

Date (Creation): 2011

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606275

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Abrasion
Remote sensing
data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Absorbents
Earth sciences
UK Location (INSPIRE)
Geology

dataCentre

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This BGS information product is made available on the web through the EarthServer project for non-commercial demonstration purposes only. It may not be used for any commercial purposes.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Service Type: download

Geographic identifier: GB
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: NETHERLANDS [id=202000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: NL
ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: NLD
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision

Geographic identifier: UK [id=139300]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Geographic identifier: UKM
ISO 3166_2 2009 revision

Coupling Type: Tight

Contains Operations

No information provided.

Operates On

Superficial Deposits Thickness Models, SDTM

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

Name	Version
image/jp2	http://www.opengis.net/spec/WCS_coverage-encoding_jpeg2000/1.0/
image/tiff	http://www.opengis.net/spec/WCS_coverage-encoding_geotiff/1.0/
application/gml+xml	http://www.opengis.net/spec/GMLCOV/1.0/conf/gml-coverage

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WCS-2.0.1-http-get-capabilities	http://earthserver.bgs.ac.uk/rasdaman/ows?service=WCS&Request=GetCapabilities&acceptversions=2.0.1&	BGS_GEOLOGY

Hierarchy level: Service

Other: service

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Hydrography

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services