CF gives guidelines on constructing standard names:
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-standard-names/guidelines
CF standard name table has "latitude", "longitude", "depth" & "time" as
standard_names for specifying spatio-temporal coordinates. Why not just use
"swath"?
Upendra
----- Original Message -----
From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:25 am
Subject: Re: [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).
>
> Actually, the CF Conventions don't standardize any dimension or
> variablenames, according to the beginning of section 1.3:
>
> No variable or dimension names are standardized by this convention.
> Instead we follow the lead of the NUG [NetCDF Users Guide] and
> standardize only the names of attributes and some of the values
> taken by those attributes.
>
> So "standard_name" attributes for the associated coordinate variables
> may be what we need. This also has the advantage of permitting
> multipleline and sample dimensions and multiple associated
> coordinate variables
> in the same file, for multiple instruments or resolutions.
>
> The process for getting standard names approved is simpler and faster
> than writing CF Trac proposals for inclusion in the CF Conventions
> text.
> Although "line" and "sample" would be fine for dimension and
> coordinatevariable names, I think they would be too generic for
> standard names,
> which have to be very descriptive. Does anyone else familiar with the
> CF idioms and customs for standard names for coordinate variables and
> have more descriptive suggestions?
>
> --Russ
>
> > --
> > Jim Biard
> >
> > Government Contractor, STG Inc.
> > Remote Sensing and Applications Division (RSAD)
> > National Climatic Data Center
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> > Asheville, NC 28801-5001
> >
> > jim.biard@xxxxxxxx
> > 828-271-4900
> >
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