G'Day
I am writing a package to convert various Space Science data formats
to netCDF, CDF, and HDF and also to interchange between these formats.
I know about the standard global attributes within netCDF. I want to
compile a general global attribute list so that I can make updating
easier. For example the name, and more importantly, the mode of an
instrument is not covered in any of the attribute lists I have come
across. What I want to know is have I missed anything which other people
use that does not fit in somewhere in this list ? Is there some standard
way within netCDF to represent a list of attributes or a hierarchy of
attributes (eg instrument.name instrument.mode etc..). Below is the
relevant define. BTW, I am going to release this S/W under GPL with
a GUI using SUIT for portability.
/*
* Global attributes associated with HDF, netCDF, and CDF files.
*
* Here I have tried to be as general as I could think of so as to enable.
* an attribute "standard" to be maintained. Some of these attributes are
* defined so as to be compatible with the ISTP KPGS (International Solar-
* Terrestrial Physics Key Parameter Generation Software), and others to
* be compatible with netCDF definitions.
*/
static char *Q_GLOBALATTRIB[]={
"version", /* 00 Version of the data. */
"descriptor", /* 01 Describes or further qualifies the data. */
"title", /* 02 Brief description of the data set */
"mission", /* 03 Acronym for the mission eg AMPTE, GOES */
"project", /* 04 eg ISTP, STEP, etc.. */
"discipline", /* 05 eg Solar Terrestrial Physics etc.. */
"datatype", /* 06 Uncalibrated, Key Parameter */
"averaging", /* 07 eg Spin average, NONE, etc.. */
"spacecraft", /* 08 For multi-spacecraft missions */
"sourcesite", /* 09 eg ICSTM, MSSL, etc.. */
"datasite", /* 10 Mainly for ground-based eg Halley Bay etc.. */
"instrument_name", /* 11 Acronym for the instrument eg FGM, PEA etc.. */
"instrument_attr", /* 12 List of attributes of the instrument (Mode etc.)*/
"investigator", /* 13 Name of PI or CoI eg D.J.Southwood */
"supplier" /* 14 Name of supplier of the data eg A.Etemadi */
"history" /* 15 List of what has happened to the data */
}; /* endof Q_HDFGLOBALATTRIB */
best regards
Ata <(|)>
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