[CF-metadata] instruments in standard names/CF

From: Aleksandar Jelenak <Aleksandar.Jelenak>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:23:54 -0400

Lynnes, Christopher S. said the following on 3/13/2009 1:53 PM:
> There may be other ways in CF-1 for accounting for these differences;

Why not use other metadata standards for this kind of information? CF
convention is lightweight and, in my view, should be kept like that.

For satellite remote sensing, can't the FGDC with Remote Sensing
Extension or the new ISO 19115 standards better capture information such
as instruments, their channels, channel spectral properties, and such?

It seems to me that too much is being asked of the 'standard_name'
attribute.

        -Aleksandar
Received on Fri Mar 13 2009 - 13:23:54 GMT