Jim,
I was lurking on the telecon yesterday. At NSIDC we work with
satellite-based passive microwave swath data. "Line" and "sample"
terminology would work fine for these.
Mary Jo
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Mary Jo Brodzik, Special Projects Lead, 303-492-8263
NSIDC/CIRES, Univ. of Colo. at Boulder, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Jim Biard wrote:
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:59:00 -0400
From: Jim Biard <Jim.Biard@xxxxxxxx>
To: cf-satellite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cf-satellite] Proposal for naming convention for swath dimensions
I suggested in the ESIP Federation CF-Satellite discussion yesterday (July
14, 2011) that the names "line" and "sample" could be good candidates for the
names of the geometrical dimensions of swath data variables. I think that
these are more generic than previous suggestions, and accommodate a wider
range of data acquisition schemes. There can be sensors out there for which
even these names are "incorrect", but the vast majority of the data is
produced as a raster of some sort. This is common terminology in many other
arenas (photogrammetry, for example).
--
Jim Biard
Government Contractor, STG Inc.
Remote Sensing and Applications Division (RSAD)
National Climatic Data Center
151 Patton Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801-5001
jim.biard@xxxxxxxx
828-271-4900
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