[gdal-dev] HDF5 and identified fields / primary dimension

[Michael Sumner]

> For that particular file, I see that the "feature_id" variable
> (corresponding to the "feature_id" dimension) has a cf_role =
> "timeseries_id" attribute, and that the global metadata has a
> featureType = "timeSeries" attribute. So given
>
> https://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.11/cf-conventions.html#coordinates-metadata
> , this seems to be relatively standardized, and in that case the
> heuristics could be improve to recognize that the main dimension is
> feature_id (probably with a test that the size of the time dimension is
> 1).  As far as I can see/remember, the vector layer support in netCDF
> was originally developed for the featureType=point and profile use cases
> , so some tuning for timeseries isn't unexpected
>
>
Thanks!  I've made *some* progress, the deepest I've been down in that file
... I hope to be able to craft these suggestions at some point.

Cheers, Mike



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Michael Sumner
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Australian Antarctic Division
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