Iowa Environmental Mesonet

Iowa State University Department of Agronomy

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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.

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.

Services
  • CONUS GOES Infrared Satellite
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/conus_ir.cgi?
  • CONUS GOES Visible Satellite
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/conus_vis.cgi?
  • GOES East infrared imagery
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/east_ir.cgi?
  • GOES West infrared imagery
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/west_ir.cgi?
  • GOES East visible imagery
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/east_vis.cgi?
  • GOES West visible imagery
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/west_vis.cgi?
  • CONUS NEXRAD Base Reflectivity (n0r)
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r.cgi?
  • CONUS NEXRAD 1 Hour Precipitation (n1p)
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n1p.cgi?
  • CONUS NEXRAD Storm Total Precipitation (ntp)
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/ntp.cgi?
  • NWS Current Warnings
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/us/wwa.cgi?
  • Iowa Rainfall Estimates
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/iowa/rainfall.cgi?

Web Feature Service (WFS)

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

Services
  • National Weather Service Warnings Current
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wfs/ww.php?
  • National Weather Service Warnings Archive (since 11 Jul 2002)
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wfs/ww.php?date=YYYY-MM-DD&
  • Iowa Road Conditions
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/roads/wfs.php?

Web Coverage Service (WCS)

Extends WMS and WFS to allow access to 'coverages' or spatial/temporal varying geodata.

Services

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!

  • CONUS NEXRAD
    http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv/mapserv.441?map=/mesonet/www/html/GIS/apps/wcs/access.map&