The data formats in use in Planetary Sciences, Space Sciences and Solar Physics are diverse and numerous, but a limited number of them are widely used. We present below the data formats used by the VESPA teams.
Format | VESPA Communities | Data Product Types | VO Support | Conversions |
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Std image formats |
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CDF |
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netCDF |
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FITS |
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| • gdal (from geofits: with Chiara's extension) • ImageJ |
HDF5 |
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| not yet | • gdal |
VOTable |
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| • TOPCAT (tables to various text formats) |
GeoTIFF |
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| • QGIS, with VESPA plugins | • gdal, in particular to geofits (with Chiara's extension) |
PDS3 |
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| • APERICubes (some cubes, to minimal/temporary fits) |
In the EPNcore metadata services, the data format must be referred to according to its MIME Type.
3 Comments
Baptiste Cecconi
interesting page giving many information on plenty of data formats: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/descriptions.shtml
Baptiste Cecconi
For netCDF files, there is an interesting NODC metadata standard (oceanic data, as far as I can tell): https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/v1.0/
Chiara Marmo
netCDF ACDD recommendation (used in the NODC data too):
https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/PO.DAAC_DataManagementPractices