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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">having used MapServer WCS for DEM data (fantastic, thanks for the help), I am looking to use the WCS</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">for temporal data too. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In particular I was thinking of using the WCS to serve netCDF data, filtering on temporal dimensions, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and dataset parameters (not doing any geographic subset as yet). </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My questions are;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1) GDAL seems to have problems with netCDF, would I be better to translate to geotiff where each band represents </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a dataset parameter?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2) Has anyone done something similar?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Quoting from the WCS howto </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">Only spatial, simple temporal and radiometric band subsetting is possible with the current implementation </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Does that mean I would have to convert to geotiff to support querying by dataset parameter, since each band could represent a different</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">parameter?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any help on the time dimensions would be appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Are there any examples (however small) I could look at.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Many thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Norman Barker</FONT>
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