Hi Martin! I am not as familiar with the NetCDF spec as you are so we will leave it up to you to make the best judgement on how to proceed. Everything looks good from where I sit!!
Adam On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Martin Desruisseaux < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > Most of the code creating ISO 19115 metadata from the content of a NetCDF > header has been ported, except coordinate reference system stuffs (because > pending sis-referencing module). I still have to port the tests, do some > adjustments, and define a public API (I will post an other mail on this > topic tomorrow). The following page lists all NetCDF metadata attributes > recognized by the current code. One can click on an attribute for seeing > the corresponding ISO 19115 property, together with a link to the UCAR page > where the attribute is defined. > > https://builds.apache.org/job/**sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/** > apache/sis/storage/netcdf/**AttributeNames.html<https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/storage/netcdf/AttributeNames.html> > > One word of caution: ISO and NetCDF uses the same words for different > things. For example what NetCDF calls "coordinate system" is actually a mix > of what OGC/ISO specifications call "coordinate system", "coordinate > reference system" and "grid geometry". The NetCDF coordinate system "range" > is closer to ISO 19123 "domain", the NetCDF coordinate system "domain" is > closer to ISO 19123 "grid envelope" and the ISO 19123 "range" is rather > related to the NetCDF variable's minimum and maximum values. Trying to use > OGC/ISO and NetCDF objects in the same code appears to be *very* confusing. > The sis-netcdf module uses internally an isolation layer with all > dependencies to the UCAR library regrouped in the "org.apache.sis.internal. > **netcdf.ucar" package. This is done that way both for technical reasons > (allowing us to use alternative to UCAR libraries for relatively simple > NetCDF files), and for avoiding to mix the two vocabularies in the same > classes. > > Martin > >
