Here's a question about observational variables. Many of our sensors
measure variables that are in the standard names list, but the data is
not yet converted to science units, for example temperature or oxygen
concentration.
These measurements are typically represented by a unit like
'volts' (or even 'counts') -- definitely not directly convertible to
the canonical units! Is there a standard technique that would let me
convert any existing standard name to a 'raw units' standard name?
If not, to start the conversation perhaps I can suggest one of the
following to indicate such metrics?
suffix: _in_engineering_units
suffix: _in_raw_units
prefix: raw_measure_of_
This capabilitiy will be important for finding data that potentially
can be converted to the desired values, but has not yet been
converted. (Some of our collected parameters are not the primary
purpose of the experiment, and they remain in raw units unless someone
needs them converted.)
John
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John Graybeal <mailto:graybeal at mbari.org> -- 831-775-1956
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Marine Metadata Interoperability Project:
http://marinemetadata.org
Received on Thu Mar 05 2009 - 16:44:15 GMT
