WMS access info

Remote Sensing Database provides a WMS-server endpoint for external access by WMS-clients.

Initial connection may take up to one minute, if it is first connect after server start.

URL:

HTTP:

Generated URL:
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Not compatible with Qgis.
Login: Digest access authentication (secure password transfer)
Connection: plain
URL-format: http://[SERVER_IP]:[SERVER_PORT]/rasterdb_wms

HTTPS:

Generated URL:
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Compatible with Qgis.
Login: Basic access authentication (not secured password transfer, but over secure https connection)
Connection: secure
Authentication certificate is self signed, so it needs to be allowed by client.
URL-format: https://[SERVER_IP]:[SERVER_SECURE_PORT]/rasterdb_wms

Checked WMS-clients:

Qgis ( link )

For Qgis the https url needs to be used.
(Qgis does not support digest authentication.)
At connection start the error dialog opens with message " Self-signed Certificate: The certificate is self-signed, and untrusted".
Click "ignore" to proceed.
In the following dialog avaiable layers are listed.
Double-click on a layer entry or click on "+" shows all bands and processings of that layer.
Select one and then click button "add" to add it to Qgis view.

Qgis does cache WMS (meta) data.
If Remote Sensing Server provides updated data (e.g. new layers), Qgis may need to be restarted and cache cleared:
Settings - Options - Network - Cache settings - "reverse arrow"-button (clear cache)

OpenLayers ( link )

To correctly handle OpenLayers requests the query parameter "modus=openlayers" needs to be added as compatiblity hint.
(OpenLayers sends requests with coordinates in swapped order for some projections.)

capabilities request:
[...]rasterdb_wms?REQUEST=GetCapabilities

map request:
[...]rasterdb_wms?REQUEST=GetMap&modus=openlayers
&LAYERS=[LAYER_NAME]
&TIME=[TIMESTAMP]
&STYLES=[STYLE_NAME]
&WIDTH=[WIDTH]
&HEIGHT=[HEIGHT]
&BBOX=[XMIN],[YMIN],[XMAX],[YMAX]


url to be used in Openlayers source:

[...]rasterdb_wms?modus=openlayers

Parameters REQUEST, WIDTH, HEIGHT, BBOX are set by Openlayers.
Parameters LAYERS, TIME, STYLES are set by user.

LAYERS (required)
Name of RasterDB layer.

TIME (optional)
Timestamp within layer. Defaults to most recent timestamp in layer.

STYLES (optional)
Applied Processing / band selection. Defaults to automatic color processing.