[OSGeo-Standards] FYI: CF-netCDF Data Model Extension Standard [11-165r1] was approved a new OGC standard

[Carl Reed]

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:

Yes: 40
Abstain: 1

The OGC netCDF encoding supports electronic encoding of geospatial data, that is, digital geospatial information representing space and time-varying phenomena.

This standard specifies the CF-netCDF data model extension that specifies the CF-netCDF data model mapping onto the ISO 19123 coverage schema. 

This standard deals with multi-dimensional gridded data and multi-dimensional multi-point data.

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.

After final edits, the document should be published as an official OGC standard in the next few days.

Regards

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Standards Program
Open Geospatial Consortium
www.opengeospatial.org

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