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Re: NPP files

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  • Subject: Re: NPP files
  • Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:53:35 -0600
Hi John - thanks for your help with this effort. Hopefully we can shake out most 
of the key issues in the next few weeks.   More below...

john caron wrote:
sounds like the coordinates are in a seperate file. can you count on that? do you know the name?
Do you mean the geolocation coordinates? If so, I think we can count on them 
being located in a different file.
is the file name derivable from the original name? where does that file come from?
It's my understanding we can't count on geolocation being in a separate file. I believe it can sometimes be a separate product group in the same HDF5 file, and sometimes a separate file. I would hope we can derive the file name, but not certain yet. As far as where the file comes from - I'm pretty sure it just comes along for the ride whenever data is requested from the Data Processing Center. 
I'll look into this more today, I'm still speculating on a lot of this.


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Tommy Jasmin
Space Science and Engineering Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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