Table information for 'rr.stc_spatial'

General

Table Description: The spatial coverage of resources. This table associates footprints (ADQL geometries) with ivoids. The footprints are intended for resource discovery; a reasonable expectation for the resolution thus is something like a degree.

This table is available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description:

Tables containing the information in the IVOA Registry. To query these tables, use our TAP service.

For more information and example queries, see the RegTAP specification.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'GAVO RegTAP Service'

Citing this table

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:rr_stc_spatial,
  year=2012,
  title={{GAVO} {RegTAP} Service},
  author={{GAVO} Data Centre},
  url={http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/rr.stc_spatial},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
ivoid Ivoid The parent resource. N/A N/A
coverage Coverage A geometry representing the area a resource contains data for; this should be tight at least with a resolution of degrees. N/A pos
ref_system_name Ref_system_name The reference frame coverage is written in. This is currently reserved and fixed to NULL. Clients should always add a constraint to NULL for this to avoid matching non-celestial resources later. N/A pos.frame

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

Other

The following services may use the data contained in this table:

VOResource

VO nerds may sometimes need VOResource XML for this table.