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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-galeon@unidata.ucar.edu [mailto:owner-galeon@unidata.ucar.edu]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Denis Nadeau<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:26
PM<BR><B>To:</B> gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org;
galeon@unidata.ucar.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> GDAL netcdf convention CF
support<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>GDAL now supports netcdf format using CF convention as specified by
unidata.<BR><BR> <A
href="http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/conventions.hdf">http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/conventions.hdf</A><BR><BR>The
software looks if the variables lat/latitude and lon/longitude are presents in
the netcdf file. If found, these variables are used to specify the
georeferencing transformation.<BR><BR>I'd like the community to try it out and
if there are some problems, let me know. GDAL netcdf format also works on
Windows with he precompile library version 3.6.1-beta1 (January
2005).<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Denis Nadeau<BR><SPAN class=219071908-18082005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>[Norman Barker] </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=219071908-18082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=219071908-18082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=219071908-18082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>this
is a really exciting announcement. I have run ncdump on my netcdf file
and checked the variables, and gdalinfo picks up the lat, lon, and ozone
vars ok. It puts the z-levels in bands within the data file which
is ok since that was the way that we had done it with geotiff. It has
lost the information attaching the band level to an atmospheric height.
Even if this was a comma separated index string it would be
useful. It has also lost the Time dimension stamp within the
file. Again is this could just be a metadata tag that would be
great.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=219071908-18082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=219071908-18082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
would like to help wrap this into MapServer WCS if possible, if I am missing
something with my comments above please let me know. This is great
though, is has caused great excitement in our
office!</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=219071908-18082005>Norman </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>