Portrayal Service

Portrayal Service - Defines a standard interface for producing visual pictures from coverage data. CPS extends the WMS interface and uses the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) language to support rendering of WCS coverages. provide visualization of geospatial information. Portrayal Services are components that, given one or more inputs, produce rendered outputs (e.g., cartographically portrayed maps, perspective views of terrain, annotated images, views of dynamically changing features in space and time, etc.). Examples include: Map Portrayal Services (MPS), Coverage Portrayal Services (CPS) and Mobile Presentation Services.

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Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 30 June 2011 07:15:36, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary