Re: [galeon] WCS CF-netCDF profile document

["Jon Blower" <jdb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roy,

I've been meaning to ask you - who were/are the users of the EDC?
What community were they from?

Jon

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Roy Mendelssohn
<Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The "Environmental Data Connector" was developed because ArcGIS is in heavy
> use in NOAA/NMFS and NOAA/NOS and there was a demand for being able to
> easily input satellite data into ArcGIS.  Not my tool of choice, but that of
> many of our customers, and since we are not geting a $700Billion bailout, we
> listen to our customers.
>
> Same reason we have WCS through THREDDS  (for a vast array of data), though
> at present it is hardly used.
>
> -Roy