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Re: 20040222: Suitability of NetCDF to Telemetry

  • Subject: Re: 20040222: Suitability of NetCDF to Telemetry
  • Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:05:36 -0700
>To: address@hidden
>From: "John R. Cox" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Suitability of NetCDF to Telemetry
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 200402222329.i1MNTPrV007651 netCDF telemetry data

John,

> I think you had the interpretation correctly and it is sort of what I
> was afraid of.
> 
> I think that if you were choosing a file format in a vacuum the
> compatibility with existing software would be important and this extra
> layer would break that compatibility. It would seem to be a better
> idea to build a series of files, each one containing data at one of t
> the fixed sample rates. This would make the process of building the
> file a bit harder, though.
> 
> Do you agree?

I agree that would be a bit harder.  There is a somewhat similar
situation with recording aircraft data at multiple sampling rates in
the same file that may give you an idea of alternatives:

  http://raf.atd.ucar.edu/Software/netCDF.html

--Russ