[gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and CF-1 convention

[Hendy Sumanto]

The same for our organisation. We have used GDAL to perform various operation on mostly geotiff format dataset.
At the moment we are trying to see whether we could support NetCDF format too as this format is now widely used in the community thus
it would be very beneficial to the communicty if the current NetCDF driver and its CF-1 convention could be improved.

Hendy

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hiebert" <hiebert at uvic.ca>
To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Friday, 26 August, 2011 3:50:09 AM
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and	CF-1 convention

FWIW my organization is a heavy user of both GDAL and geographic netcdfs (usually disparately since GDAL can't always handle the CF-1.x compliant files that we have/use/create).  So if you're assessing need in the community, I'll add a +1.  Not sure how much I can help; I'm not an expert in either CF or GDAL, but have used them enough to be able to attest that the support could be improved.
Cheers,

~James

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:26:09AM -0600, Kyle Shannon wrote:
> Etienne,
> I am all for the improvements.  I am a little short on time for the next 2-4
> weeks, but I would like to spend some time on this.  I think that the closer
> we get to a CF-1.x compliant file the better.  That also gives us a little
> better specification to work towards.  I hope to have some more time soon to
> work on this.  There does seem to be more interest in the driver and the
> file format recently.
> 
> kss
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 14:37, Etienne Tourigny <etiennesky at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to start a discussion with those interested about fixing
> > various issues in the NetCDF driver.
> >
> > As it stands, it is not fully CF-1.0 compliant, and produces geographical
> > grids that are not valid for other software.
> > Also, the infamous "up-side down" problem has been addressed for importing
> > netcdfs, but needs to be addressed for exporting.
> >
> > Related ticket: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2129
> > I have been submitting patches for some time to fix the related issues.
> >
> > I have identified a number of issues, of which the following have been
> > fixed partially in my proposed patch.
> >
> > 1- conform to the cf-1.0 standard for geographical grids (creating lat and
> > lon dimensions and variables)
> > 2- make netcdf grids "bottom-up" by default, as all software out there uses
> > that convention
> > 3- fix problems related to floating-point / string conversions (also
> > reported in issue #4200 )
> > 4- fix metadata handling and duplication (as reported in issue #4204), and
> > keep band (variable) metadata outside of the global metadata
> >
> > Pending issues:
> >
> > 5- how to deal with netcdfs which have no datum? Can we assume WGS84?
> >      These files are extremely common, and CF-1.0 has provisions for
> > identifying the key variables, but no Proj/Wkt codes.
> > 6- fix proper export of projected CRS (this is not fully necessary though)
> > with lat/lon values respecting CF-1.0
> > 7- handle time axis properly (at least when creating a netcdf) - that would
> > be great for import/export of netcdf
> >
> > Regards,
> > Etienne
> >
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