comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: Data format for spherical data

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Data format for spherical data

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Data format for spherical data [message #44238 is a reply to message #44236]

Wed, 25 May 2005 08:43

R.G. Stockwell
Messages: 363
Registered: July 1999

Senior Member

"Wayne Landsman" <vze49sx6@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:1117031988.627310.122490@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com.. .
> Sorry if this posting appears twice. Also, this is not really an IDL
> question, though I will be using IDL to convert to the new data format.
>
> I've only worked only within the provincial field of astronomy, and so
> I've never had to deal with data formats other than FITS. But our
> data center is now being asked to make our all-sky data available in a
> more popular (but still scientific) data format, where suggestions so
> far for the new format have included NetCDF and GeoTIFF. The data
> will consist of various quantities (e.g. flux, error, # of
> observations) attached to ~60,000 longitude, latitude points covering
> the entire sphere.
>
> I suppose the most important criterion for the format is popularity (we
> only want to do this once) although an ability to naturally handle
> spherical data is a plus, as is the ease of the conversion within IDL.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, -Wayne Landsman

NetCDF is very nice. It is always my format of choice. The size of your
data
does not seem restrictive. What other languages do you anticipate needing to
supply?
netcdf has builds on a variety of platforms:
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/builds/in dex.html

Cheers,
bob

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: Data format for spherical data By: James Kuyper on Wed, 25 May 2005 20:16
		Re: Data format for spherical data By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 25 May 2005 09:49
		Re: Data format for spherical data By: R.G. Stockwell on Wed, 25 May 2005 08:43

Previous Topic:	IBETA error message when using TM_TEST function
Next Topic:	odbc.ini for Oracle9.2 under AIX

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 02:45:22 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 2.08170 seconds