Crime Mapping and Analysis

there are often differences in data structure designs, data encoding approaches, data accessing and processing methods for these two types of geographic phenomena. Geographic coverage is a concept for continuous phenomena. Geographic coverage standards defines conceptual schema for coverage and analyze coverage types and components, e. g., [1]. These include characteristics of spatiotemporal domain coverage and attribute range, major coverage types, and operations on coverages. Geographic coverage standards provide a common technology language and guide the development of interoperable services on coverage data. Geographic coverage services perform various functionalities for coverage including collecting, archiving, cataloging, publishing, distributing, and processing of coverage data. Geographic coverage services compliant with standard schema and interfaces are interoperable. They can be described, published and found in standard service catalogues, be accessed by all compliant clients, and be connected in order to construct service chains to accomplish complex geospatial modeling tasks.