Re: [cf-satellite] missing value in auxillary coordinate variables

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what is your opinion about geostationary satellites where we have to cold
space all around the imaged disk and we are providing geolocation
information per pixel lat /lon as 2D lat/lon arrays.
Regards
Ghansham
On Mar 1, 2014 12:46 AM, "Jim Biard" <jbiard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ghansam,
>
> Actually, in the satellite world (or any trajectory or swath-type case),
> it is entirely possible that you might have acquired measurements at a
> point, but the location information for that point may have been garbled or
> lost.  If we don't require linkage, then we can preserve the maximum amount
> of data.
>
> Grace and peace,
>
> Jim
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> On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Ghansham Sangar <ghanshamsangar@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> hi sir
> thanks a lot for the prompt reply.
> obviously data should be missing where coordinates are missing.
> ghansham
> On Mar 1, 2014 12:22 AM, "Jim Biard" <jbiard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Ghansham,
>>
>> I would say yes, unreservedly, but others are insisting that this only OK
>> if you also have missing values in all the associated data variables.
>>
>> Grace and peace,
>>
>> Jim
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>> On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Ghansham Sangar <ghanshamsangar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> hi sir
>> Is it possible to specify missing value in auxillaery coordinate
>> variables (2-D lat/lon variables).
>> Regards
>> Ghansham
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