PetaScope
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This file is part of PetaScope, a free implementation of the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC, 
www.opengeospatial.org) Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards suite. As such, it implements the 
following interface standards:
    - Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0
    - Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.1.2
    - Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) 1.0.0
    - WCS Transaction Extension (WCS-T) 1.4.0

PetaScope is implemented as a Java servlet. As such, it relies on the following
freely available components which are not part of the PetaScope distribution:
    - rasdaman (www.rasdaman.org) as raster server
    - Tomcat (tomcat.apache.org) as servlet container
    - PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org) as relational database system


Distribution
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A PetaScope distribution consists of the following directories and files:

db/                  Scripts to initialize and maintain the PetaScope database
db/settings.properties  Servlet initialization parameters, such as database connections (*)
lib/                 External libraries required
makefiles/           
nbproject/			 NetBeans project build files and properties.
src/                 Main source code
test/                Test source code and test files
xml/                 WC*S schema files used by PetaScope (copies from schemas.opengis.net)
web/WEB-INF/web.xml  PetaScope servlet deployment file (*)
LICENSE              PetaScope license
build.xml            "Ant" rule file for building PetaScope
Makefile             Standard Makefile for building PetaScope, see 'make help' for more details
INSTALL              Installation guidelines
README               This file

Notes:
(*) requires manual configuration

See INSTALL for installation guidelines.

LICENSE
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PetaScope is licensed by Jacobs University Bremen
(www.jacobs-university.de) and Peter Baumann
(www.peter-baumann.org) under the GNU General Public
License (GPL), see www.gnu.org or the LICENSE file.