[Esip-documentation] ACDD comments --

[Bob Simons - NOAA Federal via Esip-documentation]

The names of the constants in the Unidata netcdf-java software library 
are NOT the correct CF featureType names. See
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.6/build/cf-conventions.html#discrete-sampling-geometries
1) The CF featureTypes don't have underscores. Several constants in the 
Unidata library have underscores.
2) trajectoryProfile is a CF featureType, but is not in the netcdf-java 
constants list.


On 2014-09-23 3:34 AM, Signell, Richard via Esip-documentation wrote:
> Here are the featureTypes Unidata currently recognizes:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/netcdf-java/javadoc/ucar/nc2/constants/FeatureType.html
> which include
> swath (level 2)
> grid (bathy, level 3, structured model output)
> ugrid (unstructured grid, e.g. triangular, hex grid)
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Aleksandar Jelenak via
> Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> On 9/22/14, 8:23 PM, "Armstrong, Edward M (398M)"
>> <Edward.M.Armstrong at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>> Any equi rectangular Level 3 or 4 grid with fixed longitude and latitude
>>> grid spacing (so the lon/lat coordinate axes are 1 dimensional)
>> Thanks. I thought so but wanted to be sure. I think the featureType
>> attribute was introduced in the CF only for discrete sampling geometries.
>> I don’t know if there are any plans to extend its vocabulary with some
>> other feature types. A simple “grid” would be a good candidate, no?
>>
>>          -Aleksandar
>>
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