CF Folks, What would be the best DSG featureType to represent a wire-crawling sensor that has a fixed lon,lat location, but non-uniform depth interval as it goes up and down, and takes enough time that the profile might not be accurately represented with a single time value?
On this ERDDAP site the featureType is "trajectory": http://ooi-data.marine.rutgers.edu/erddap/info/CP04OSPM-WFP01-04-FLORTK000-flort_kn_stc_imodem_instrument-telemetered-d0005/index.html and I'm wondering if that's the best, or whether "timeSeriesProfile" would be better, written as as ragged array with profile_index? Certainly if we assigned a "nominal time" for each cast, then it would clearly be representable as timeSeriesProfile, but it's not clear to me that it meets the CF conventions if time varies within the cast. There would be value in allowing the time-varying values within the profile, but also labeling/indexing the profiles, so that people could easily extract, say, all the "down" profiles, excluding the "up" (or vice versa). Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
