Hi Steven, John:

Thanks for mentioning the CF-satellite list. I was told about it just two days ago and have already joined.

My data is not of the satellite swath type. It is a time series of calibration correction coefficients for all channels of a satellite instrument. One (time, chan) variable for the slope and one (time, chan) variable for the offset of the correction formula.

I came to the Discrete Sampling Geometries convention because I wanted to serve my data via the NetCDF Subset web service of the THREDDS server. That service supports only the Grid and Discrete Sampling Geometry data types. I thought promoting the satellite into a station with fixed latitude, longitude, and altitude would do the trick but obviously not.

Let's not get hung up on the term "satellite" here. What if it was a spectrometer on a pole, looking downward at a target? What CDM type is most appropriate for this kind of data?

        -Aleksandar
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