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Hi Ben I'm intrigued to know why you would want to put satellite data (which presumably starts in HDF or something similar) in NetCDF for an *interoperability* experiment based on OGC protocols? If the existing data format wont support an OGC server, then an approach based on converting to NetCDF and using Stefano's middleware and taking part in Galeon makes perfect sense ... However, if you have data which could be served up directly by an alternative WCS implementation then I would have thought you and the Galeon community would both benefit by showing how these differing data host formats can be served up *together* using OGC protocols. Of course it makes perfect sense to be involved using that data which starts life in NetCDF as well ... (Note the major assumption that someone has a good way of serving up the satellite data via a WCS). As a side issue, can anyone confirm that CF has a good way of encoding satellite scenes? Regards, Bryan On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:23, Ben Burford wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > I'm very pleased to hear from you, and to hear that you're interested in > wor king with us. Actually, I've been reading materials written by you for > abou t 2 years now, in the THREDDS project, so I'm happy to finally be in > contact with you. > > I think the first thing we would like is to understand the process for > prepa ring data and metadata for our scenes of satellite data. I think we > would f irst need to put our satellite scenes into NetCDF, CF compliant > format. Per haps next your WCS server implementation will generate the > necessary metadat a in ncML-GML format. Unfortunately our budget for this > work is very limite d so we need to have some understanding of the effort > on our part. However, I feel very optimistic about this work and look > forward to working with you. > > Another question would be what server we would put the data on. Is there a > server we could put the CEOP satellite data and metadata on, or would we > nee d to provide our own server installation for this (perhaps THREDDS and > WCS s ervers)? > > Also, what schedule for our joining OGC would be satisfactory, since we > need to work out contract details with JAXA to obtain approval for using > contrac t money for OGC membership. > > Finally, we hope to perform demos in future meetings (e.g. the next CEOS > WGI SS meeting in May of 2006) and we are wondering if GALEON servers will > remai n online for demos after the GALEON project ends. > > I hope we can talk briefly in today's telecon on some of these issues. If > n ot, I'm sure we can talk about them over the phone or by email in the > near f uture. > > Thank you again, > > Ben >
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