I posted this a few days ago to the ArcGIS Discussion Forum but have had no response so thought I would try here as well.
I'm new to Web Coverage Services (WCS) but have found it easy to add one using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 and this service URL:
http://nsidc.org/cgi-bin/atlas_south?service=WCS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.1
I add the service by Liu et al. and get a nice display.
However, when I use Identify to look at the values for any cell on the grid/coverage all Stretched Values and Pixel Values are in the range 0-255. I would expect to see 0-255 used for the Stretched Values but thought the Pixel Value would be holding raw data with values well in excess of 255.
When I export data from the WCS to a file geodatabase raster the values there are 0-255 too.
Is it possible to access the raw values held in a WCS?
(Hopefully I am just misunderstanding how to get my desired result)
NSIDC have said that their server is configured to provide data in GeoTIFF format. Their docs make it appear that GeoTIFFInt16 and GeoTIFFFloat32 are both options but they suspect that the GetCoverage request generated by ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 is using a format that maps the data into an 8-bit format instead.
I do not know of an option within ArcGIS for Desktop to select the GeoTIFF format used by GetCoverage or a way to trap the GetCoverage URL that it is passing to the WCS server.
