oceanographic data in terms of ISO/OGC Feature types and Coverages, Unidata

is looking at ways to represent these datasets in netCDF and in particular

the possibility of extending the CF convention to include those

representations.

The larger effort began when a number of communities (the CDM work at Unidata,

the CSML work at BADC, and the OGC Sensor Web Enablement Observations and

Measurements) realized they were developing similar lists of data types. The

combined list includes: 1) grid, 2) point/station observation, 3) vertical

profile/sounding, 4) trajectory, 5) swath, and 6) radar/radial.

This paper will detail the current state of the Unidata effort.