Actually they are referring to the characteristics of the sampling
strategy.
This can be described in the context of the procedure/platform/sensor,
or in the context of the foi, or simply reflected by the coverage-domain
within a result expressed as a coverage. They are none of them wrong. My
sense is that common practice in the fluid-earth sciences is the latter
- mostly what is being shifted around is a
result-with-sampling-strategy-embedded-within (i.e. the grid
parameters). That's OK. IMHO the O&M model allows us to understand this
better as it provides a language to describe it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dr Luis Bermudez
Sent: Friday, 14 March 2008 11:15 AM
To: Cox, Simon (E&M, Kensington)
Cc: gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx; galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [galeon] Fwd: CDM feature and point types docs
Hi Simon, excellent.
I've been feeling and expressing this same idea. Feature of Interest
should be an earth realm or a name place from a gazetteer, where we
could infer the earth realm. Should not be a geometry, as Ron said.
But, my feeling is that when a domain scientists refer to a type of
data ( trajectory, station, profile .. ) they are really referring to
characteristics of the observing procedure ( in this case .. the
constraint behavior of a sensor or platform ) which is confused
sometimes with the feature of interest.
-Luis