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.
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.
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/conus_ir.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/conus_vis.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/east_ir.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/west_ir.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/east_vis.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/west_vis.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n1p.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/ntp.cgi?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/us/wwa.cgi?
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/iowa/rainfall.cgi?A WFS is a service that provides geodata as simple features in Geography Markup Language (GML).
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wfs/ww.php?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wfs/ww.php?date=YYYY-MM-DD&http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/roads/wfs.php?Extends WMS and WFS to allow access to 'coverages' or spatial/temporal varying geodata.
This service is experimental. We currently don't have anybody with a client that is able to test this. If you do test it, please let us know!
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv/mapserv.441?map=/mesonet/www/html/GIS/apps/wcs/access.map&