You can also use a POST request to retrieve this information, as explained here.

A LuciadFusion tile store exposes which coverages are available, and retrieve information about those coverages. For example:

  • Retrieving the ID of a coverage, which you need when you want to visualize it on a map

  • Retrieving the bounds of the coverage

  • Retrieving the geo-reference

  • …​

The following code illustrates how you can connect to a LuciadFusion tile store, find the available coverages and retrieve some information for each coverage. 

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import com.luciad.fusion.client.ALfnClientEnvironment;
import com.luciad.fusion.client.TLfnClientFactory;
import com.luciad.fusion.core.ALfnEnvironment;
import com.luciad.fusion.tilestore.ALfnCoverage;
import com.luciad.fusion.tilestore.ALfnTileStore;
import com.luciad.fusion.tilestore.ELfnDataType;
import com.luciad.fusion.tilestore.TLfnServiceException;
import com.luciad.fusion.tilestore.TLfnTileStoreProvider;
import com.luciad.fusion.tilestore.metadata.ALfnCoverageMetadata;
import com.luciad.reference.ILcdGeoReference;
import com.luciad.shape.ILcdBounds;

final class ListAvailableCoveragesTutorial {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // Create the environments
    // These are heavy resources that you normally create once in your application and keep reusing
    ALfnEnvironment environment = ALfnEnvironment.newInstance();
    ALfnClientEnvironment clientEnvironment = ALfnClientEnvironment.newInstance(environment);

    //Create an ALfnTileStore object
    String tilestoreURL = "http://sampleservices.luciad.com/lts";
    ALfnTileStore tileStore = getTileStore(tilestoreURL, clientEnvironment);

    //Retrieve all the coverage IDs
    List<String> coverageIds = tileStore.getCoverageIds();
    Collections.sort(coverageIds);
    for (String coverageID : coverageIds) {
      //Retrieve the metadata for the coverage
      ALfnCoverage coverage = tileStore.getCoverage(coverageID);
      ALfnCoverageMetadata coverageMetadata = coverage.getMetadata();

      //Retrieve some extra information
      String coverageName = coverageMetadata.getName();
      ELfnDataType type = coverageMetadata.getType();
      String format = coverageMetadata.getFormat();
      ILcdBounds bounds = coverageMetadata.getBounds();
      ILcdGeoReference reference = coverageMetadata.getGeoReference();

      System.out.println(coverageName);
      System.out.println("ID: " + coverageID);
      System.out.println("Type: " + type);
      System.out.println("Format: " + format);
      System.out.println("Bounds: " + bounds);
      System.out.println("Reference: " + reference);
      System.out.println();
    }

  }

  private static ALfnTileStore getTileStore(String tilestoreURL, ALfnClientEnvironment aClientEnvironment) throws IOException, TLfnServiceException, URISyntaxException {
    URI tileStoreUri = new URL(tilestoreURL).toURI();
    TLfnClientFactory clientFactory = new TLfnClientFactory(aClientEnvironment);
    TLfnTileStoreProvider tileStoreProvider = new TLfnTileStoreProvider(clientFactory, aClientEnvironment.getEnvironment());
    return tileStoreProvider.getTileStore(tileStoreUri);
  }
}

If you don’t need any specific information about the coverages but just want to decode some/all coverages to visualize them on a map, the code in How to find and decode (all available) coverages from a tile store can be more convenient.