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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">As of December 17, the CF-netCDF Data Model
Extension Standard [11-165r1] was approved a new OGC standard. Congratulations
to the CF-NetCDF SWG! The vote results are:</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Yes: 40</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Abstain: 1</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9pt" class=MsoNormal>The OGC netCDF encoding supports
electronic encoding of geospatial data, that is, digital geospatial information
representing space and time-varying phenomena.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9pt" class=MsoNormal>This standard specifies the
CF-netCDF data model extension that specifies the CF-netCDF data model mapping
onto the ISO 19123 coverage schema. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9pt" class=MsoNormal>This standard deals with
multi-dimensional gridded data and multi-dimensional multi-point data.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9pt" class=MsoNormal>In particular, this extension
standard encoding profile is limited to multi-point, and regular and warped
grids; however, irregular grids are important in the CF-netCDF community and
work is underway to expand the CF-netCDF to encompass other coverages types,
including irregular gridded datasets.</P>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">After final edits, the document should be
published as an official OGC standard in the next few days.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Regards</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Carl
Reed, PhD<BR>CTO and Executive Director Standards Program<BR>Open Geospatial
Consortium<BR>www.opengeospatial.org<BR><BR>The OGC: Making Location
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