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WITHDRAWN:BGS EarthServer pilot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.

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Identification info

Alternate title
Earthserver
Date (Creation)
2011
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606275
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Hydrography
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Abrasion
  • Remote sensing
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
  • Absorbents
  • Earth sciences
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • Geology
dataCentre
  • UK Location (INSPIRE)
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions 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
otherRestrictions 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

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
NETHERLANDS [id=202000]

Date (Creation)
1979

Geographic identifier
NL

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
NLD

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
UK [id=139300]

Date (Creation)
1979

Geographic identifier
UKM

Date (Revision)
2009

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
  • 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
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
OnLine resource
BGS_GEOLOGY ( OGC:WCS-2.0.1-http-get-capabilities )

BGS EarthServer pilot WCS service for geology and earth observation coverage data

Hierarchy level
service Service
Other
service

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011-03-21
Explanation
See the referenced specification at http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/TechnicalGuidance_ViewServices_v3.0.pdf
Pass
No
Statement
not entered
File identifier
fc929094-8a30-2617-e044-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
service Service
Hierarchy level name
service
Date stamp
2025-05-07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13606275
 
 

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