[GRASS-user] WCS import into GRASS GIS - select region extent only

Sat Jan 4 14:16:31 PST 2014

Hi Martin,
Since you mentioned that you are familiar with python, here is a python-based approach:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/41123/how-to-extract-a-wcs-layer-with-gdal-translate

Cheers
Stefan

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From: grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Blumentrath, Stefan
Sent: 4. januar 2014 22:17
To: Martin Zbinden; grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] WCS import into GRASS GIS - select region extent only

Hi Martin,

Just add a line like this (adjusted to your case) after the CoverageName line in the .vrt.
<GetCoverageExtra>&SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCoverage&FORMAT=GeoTIFF&COVERAGE=layername&BBOX=381464.564874,7282848.63791,7310018.58218,422460.634623&CRS=EPSG:32633&WIDTH=800&HEIGHT=600</GetCoverageExtra>

Likely you do not need all these GetCoverage specifications.

However, with the BBOX set to your region you can import the .vrt directly to GRASS with r.in.gdal.

(See http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wcs.html or http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/2/2c/BestPractices_WCS.pdf page 24)

Cheers
Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: martin.zbinden at gmail.com [mailto:martin.zbinden at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Martin Zbinden
Sent: 4. januar 2014 21:01
To: Blumentrath, Stefan
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] WCS import into GRASS GIS - select region extent only

Hey Stefan,
Thanks, you helped me already a lot. I'm looking forward to build some python script which does these steps automatically. It seems to me that these .vrt-files can do kind of magic :-)

However, one concern is still left. When I choose a too big projwin, then Mapserver gives an error.

gdal_translate -co "COMPRESS=LZW" -projwin 2592000 1182500 2597500
1179000  dem_wcs.vrt dem_wcs.tif
Computed -srcwin 53295 56717 2750 1750 from projected window.

0ERROR 1: msWCSGetCoverage(): WCS server error. Raster size out of range, width and height of resulting coverage must be no more than MAXSIZE=2048.

It seems that r.in.gdal ist conscious about this and downloads data tile by tile. Maybe you can give me a hint me how to do the same with my own script. No way to tell the projwin through the GDAL-VRT directly, so I could load it directly with r.in.gdal?

Cheers,
Martin
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2014/1/3 Blumentrath, Stefan <Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no>:
> Hei Martin,
>
> You could try making a (temporary) virtual GDAL-VRT dataset (it’s a simple textfile (XML) containing information like this, in the example below named "dem_wcs.vrt"):
>
> <WCS_GDAL>
>  <ServiceURL>http://your_wcs_server/wcs.dtm?</ServiceURL>
>  <CoverageName>layername</CoverageName>
> </WCS_GDAL>
>
> For more info on vrt-format see:
> http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html
>
> After that you could use gdal_translate (http://www.gdal.org/gdal_translate.html), which has a projwin parameter where you can feed you GRASS region boundaries from g.region -up:
> gdal_translate -co "COMPRESS=LZW" -projwin ulx uly lrx lry dem_wcs.vrt 
> dem_wcs.tif
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Martin 
> Zbinden
> Sent: 3. januar 2014 21:46
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [GRASS-user] WCS import into GRASS GIS - select region extent 
> only
>
> Hi,
>
> For my Bachelor-Thesis I want to optimize the erosion risk map of Switzerland for use in agricultural extension. Although I concentrate on 3 cantons only (BE, FR, SO),  I have to manage huge amounts of data. The fact that the raster data I got from the federal office are overlapping each other (following the defined fieldblocks) doesn't make things easier, but I've at least found r.patch which can combine them one by one.
>
> I thought, with Mapserver  (V 6.4.0) I'd found the perfect solution to all my problems. Now I'm stuck after 5+ hours of trying to import the data from my local WCS-Service. I have seen the hints on GRASS Wiki [1] and r.in.gdal starts to download geotiff-tiles from Mapserver. The problem is, that I don't want all the 12 GB of data, but only the grass region extent.
>
> The following http-query does what I expect, it makes me a GeoTIFF-File from my region defined by BBOX=... .
> http://localhost/mywcs?SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCoverage&c
> overage=blw.eros_z&FORMAT=image/tiff&CRS=EPSG:2056&BBOX=2596000,118100
> 0,2597500,1182500&RESX=2&RESY=2
>
>
> I tried to restrict the download to the  region by defining a BBOX in this WCS_GDAL xml file. However, this didn't work and isn't supposed to work [2]. Is there a way to say r.in.gdal to only get the data from the region extent?
>
> I know there is this new, very clever r.in.wms2 script, which does exactly what I want -- for WMS. Is there a way to get WMS-Mapserver to serve RAW-data (erosion in t per annum, elevation data)?  Or maybe better create a python script to download map by a custom http-request?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice! I hope I can get it to work somehow.
> Liebe Grüsse
> Martin Zbinden
>
> PS: the WCS server given in GRASS wiki seems to be down this time.
>
> [1]
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets#OGC_WCS_-_Albedo_examp
> le [2]
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2008-March/016552.html
>
>
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