#168: Addition of grid mapping for radar and lidar data in radial coordinates
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Reporter: mikedixon | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: medium | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: radar lidar grid mapping
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Comment (by jonathan):
Dear Mike
Thanks for your proposal. It would probably encourage discussion if you
could put the text in this ticket. That's more accessible than a linked
PDF or !GitHub, because the ticket is distributed to everyone by email in
plain text. We may change to using !GitHub instead of trac, but we're not
yet technically set up for that. It's being worked on.
If I understand correctly, this proposal is about recording the conversion
of polar coordinates (range and angle) to geolocated XYZ coordinates. Is
that right? The conversion depends on measured and variable physical
quantities, so it's not like other conversions, which depend on geometry.
Therefore I'm not sure it's really like a grid mapping. However I
understand that you do need to record the geolocating coordinates. Can
they be stored as 2D auxiliary coordinates which are functions of range
and angle? That's a general CF mechanism which doesn't depend on grid
mapping.
Best wishes
Jonathan
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