On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Tom Rink <rink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For single band files, will it be necessary to dimension the data array
> like Data(band, y, x) where band is length=1, or is there some other
> metadata construct which would allow a band=1 dimension in the
> file, but allow Data(y,x), with other band indexed variables like
> wavelength(band)?
My option: since the application will have to recognize the other
metadata in order to ascertain that this file has "image data", then
it probably could be smart enough to realize that if the "band"
dimension is not part of the shape of the data, that it can (and
should) default to "1".
tom
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