netCDF convention for lidar data?

[Nancy N Soreide]

 From my husband, who has worked with lidar data at Boeing:

EXT-Soreide, David C wrote:
> You might try Larry Cornman at NCAR, Steve Hannon at Coherent 
> Technologies ( I think that's owned by Lockheed Martin now) and Rod 
> Bogue at NASA Dryden.  I may have addresses and such, but they're 
> surely out of date.  I know we had Lidar data for the ACLAIM program 
> in a netCDF format.  It was encoded by the NCAR Flight center in 
> Boulder.  I don't remember any contact names there and I'm not 
> sure the Flight Center still exists.


Joseph VanAndel wrote:
> NCAR is planning to purchase 1 or more lidars for use on the G5 and 
> the C130 aircraft. (FYI, this is the CAPRIS program).
>
> We're asking the vendors to write their data in netCDF (or possibly 
> HDF5).   We want to provide the vendors guidance so we don't get lots 
> of incompatible netCDF files.
>
> If you are using netCDF for lidar data, please send me your convention 
> (ncdump -c -h)
>
> Or, if you have any advice on creating a convention for lidar data, 
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks much.
>
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Nancy N. Soreide                 
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