OGC Web Services

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) is a standards organization leading the development of geospatial and location based services. The OGC has adopted a number of specifications, some of which are used by the IEM. This page lists these services.

Some items of note:

1. All of these services are available via https:// connections.
2. There are four DNS aliases for the website to allow web browers to make many simultaneous requests against these services.
   
   1. mesonet1.agron.iastate.edu
   2. mesonet2.agron.iastate.edu
   3. mesonet3.agron.iastate.edu
   4. www.mesonet.agron.iastate.edu

Tile Map Service (TMS)

Here are working examples using IEM TMS services within various Javascript libraries.

Listing of Tile Map Services

The following services are for Spherical Mercator (EPSG:3857) maps only.

Service Name	Description	Legend
uscounties	US County Borders
usstates	US State Borders
Template: goes_bird_sector_chchannel Example: goes_east_conus_ch02	Current GOES R/S Imagery. Where: bird is "east" or "west" sector is "fulldisk", "alaska" (west only), "conus", "hawaii" (west only), "mesoscale-1", "mesoscale-2", "puertorico" (east only) channel is two-digit, zero padded 01-16 more info.
Template: hrrr::REFD-FXXXX-0	Latest HRRR Reflectivity Forecasts, FXXXX is the forecast minute more info
Template: hrrr::REFD-FXXXX-YYYYMMDDHHMI	Archived HRRR Reflectivity Forecasts, FXXXX is the forecast minute more info
Template: ridge::XXX-XXX-0	Latest individual RADAR XXX data for product XXX more info
Template: ridge::XXX-XXX-YYYYMMDDHHMI	Archived individual RADAR XXX data for product XXX more info
nexrad-n0q-900913	NEXRAD Base Reflectivity current
nexrad-n0q-900913-mXXm	... where XX is a zero padded number modulo 5 between 05 and 55 minutes old.
nexrad-eet-900913	NEXRAD Echo Tops EET current
nexrad-eet-900913-mXXm	... where XX is a zero padded number module 5 between 05 and 55 minutes old.
q2-n1p-900913	MRMS 1 Hour Precipitation
q2-p24h-900913	MRMS 24 Hour Precipitation
q2-p48h-900913	MRMS 48 Hour Precipitation
q2-p72h-900913	MRMS 72 Hour Precipitation
q2-hsr-900913	MRMS Hybrid-Scan Reflectivity Composite (SeamlessHSR).
mrms::a2m-YYYYMMDDHHMI	Archived MRMS PrecipRate product. An archived raster should be available for each minute modulo 2 since early 2015.
mrms::lcref-YYYYMMDDHHMI	Archived MRMS SeamlessHSR product. An archived raster should be available for each minute modulo 2 since early 2015.
mrms::p{1,24,48,72}h-YYYYMMDDHHMI	Archived MRMS precipitation estimate over given backwards looking hourly interval. Note that the 1 hourly value is not zero padded with the URI. Rasters are only available at the top of each hour since early 2015!	See Above for Ramps

Web Map Service (WMS)

A WMS defines a protocol for web based retrieval of geodata in raster map format. If you are interested in the capabilities XML file, simply add "VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WMS&" to the URI string.

Web Feature Service (WFS)

A WFS is a service that provides geodata as simple features in Geography Markup Language (GML).