Re: [CF-metadata] geostationary vs vertical_perspective in CF 1.7.

2014-11-19 Thread John Caron
great, thanks for the clarification. the reference in CF vertical perspective projections has this proj4 reference: http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/geos.html is it wrong/misleading? is geostationary a special case of vertical perspective? On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:28 PM,

Re: [CF-metadata] geostationary vs vertical_perspective in CF 1.7.

2014-11-19 Thread Randy Horne
John: (!) RE: http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/proj_list/geos.html That reference is not correct. (2) RE: is geostationary a special case of vertical perspective? I don’t think of geostationary as being special case of vertical perspective, but if the center of the image is at the

[CF-metadata] geostationary vs vertical_perspective in CF 1.7.

2014-11-18 Thread John Caron
CF TRAC ticket 72 defines geostationary projection, accepted for 1.7. 1) I _think_ that Vertical Perspective is an earlier version of this, and it should be deprecated in favor of geostationary. Does anyone have a different opinion? 2) The draft 1.7 does not yet include it, so its been hard to

Re: [CF-metadata] geostationary vs vertical_perspective in CF 1.7.

2014-11-18 Thread Randy Horne
John: geostationary projection and vertical perspective projections are not the same. an example of a vertical projection image is one taken by a camera in space, which is not necessarily at the equator, and the data for the entire image is observed using a single exposure. the geostationary