WEB MAP sERVICE GFMS
GFM products are fully accessible in a GIS environment or via a web browser. It is possible to access the WMS layers using any WMS client viewer, such as Quantum GIS (QGIS) or ESRI ArcMap.
The GFM WMS-T is freely accessible at the following URL: http://193.170.252.77/geoserver/global_flood_monitoring/wms?version=1.1.0
QGIS
1) Launch QGIS
2) In the browser panel right-click on the WMS/WMTS icon
2) In the Create a New WMS/WMTS Connection window insert a title for your WMS connection in the Name section and paste the GloFAS WMS URL
(http://193.170.252.77/geoserver/global_flood_monitoring/wms?version=1.1.0) then click OK.
3) At this point in the browser panel under the WMS/WMTS icon you should see the title for the WMS connection that you have entered. Click on the arrow near the WMS connection to open it. You should see the EFAS WMS layers as follow:
4) To view the layers simply drag and drop the layer icon into the Layers panel underneath the Browser panel, the layer will be displayed in the Map Panel as showed:
5) In the Layer panel you can see the legend associated to each layer underneath the name of the layer
6) Some of the layers are queryable, in order to retrieve the info for the layer:
Select the layer from the Layers tab (the layer name needs to be highlighted) In the main toolbar locate the info button Click on any feature of the layer in the Map Panel and the Identify result window will open with the information for the layer
Further documentation on how to use QGIS can be found in this training manual.
supporting temporal request (hereafter WMS-T) according to OGC standards (see section 2.4.3.5 Module – Web-Map-Service with temporal support)
