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DATA/ AURA/ GEOMS EXPIRED

To facilitate the exchange of validation data among investigators and missions, data centers like the Atmospheric composition Validation Data Center (AVDC) require that all validation data submitted to the archive are formatted using the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) in conjunction with the Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard (GEOMS).


File reporting guidelines


Version Date Comments
v1.0 December 01, 2021 Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard (GEOMS)
v20060831 August 31, 2006 AVDC addendum to the Envisat Cal/Val guidelines
v01R001 April 23, 2002 Generic metadata guidelines on atmospheric and oceanographic datasets for the Envisat Calibration and Validation Project

Changes to versions of GEOMS

GEOMS email list

  • If you want to subscribe to the GEOMS email list, please send an empty email to subscribe to GEOMS. To activate your subscription, just reply to the confirmation message you receive from the group. This will enable you to receive and respond to GEOMS email. In order to access the group's web features, please have a valid Yahoo account.

Table attribute values (TAV) used with dataset generation, quality assurance and harmonization software

You can access earlier revisions of the TAV file using the following address http://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/PDF/tableattrvalue_04Rxxx_idl.dat (replace xxx with the revision number e.g. 012).


GEOMS dataset generation, quality assurance and harmonization

GEOMS attribute values (AV), templates (TE), and examples (EX)

Global attributes with controlled vocabulary, but for protection of privacy attribute values are not posted here. For further information please contact the GEOMS compliant data center, where you intend to submit your files.

  • PI_NAME, PI_ADDRESS, PI_EMAIL, DO_NAME, DO_ADDRESS, DO_EMAIL, DS_NAME, DS_ADDRESS, DS_EMAIL
Global and variable attributes with no controlled vocabulary, but rules on the construction of attribute values apply.
  • DATA_START_DATE, DATA_STOP_DATE, DATA_FILE_VERSION, DATA_TEMPLATE, DATA_PROCESSOR, FILE_NAME, FILE_GENERATION_DATE, FILE_ACCESS, FILE_PROJECT_ID, FILE_DOI
  • VAR_NAME, VAR_SIZE, VAR_DEPEND, VAR_VALID_MIN, VAR_VALID_MAX, VAR_FILL_VALUE
Global and variable attributes with free text attribute values.
  • DATA_DESCRIPTION, DATA_MODIFICATIONS, DATA_CAVEATS, DATA_RULES_OF_USE, DATA_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, DATA_QUALITY, FILE_ASSOCIATION
  • VAR_DESCRIPTION, VAR_NOTES
Allowed global and variable attributes (GEOMS-AV) with controlled vocabulary, templates (GEOMS-TE), and examples (GEOMS-EX).

Expired global and variable attributes

1 DATA_LEVEL   GEOMS attribute values (expired)
2 VAR_AVG_TYPE   GEOMS attribute values (expired)
3 VIS_FORMAT   GEOMS attribute values (expired)
4 VIS_PLOT_TYPE   GEOMS attribute values (expired)
5 VIS_SCALE_TYPE_01   GEOMS attribute values (expired)
6 VIS_SCALE_TYPE_02   GEOMS attribute values (expired)

 DATA_LEVEL (GEOMS attribute values (expired))
ERROR_SQL=select datalevel_code, datalevel_code, description from datalevel ORDER BY datalevel_code;top

 VAR_AVG_TYPE (GEOMS attribute values (expired))
ERROR_SQL=select method, method, description from averaging ORDER BY method;top

 VIS_FORMAT (GEOMS attribute values (expired))
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 VIS_PLOT_TYPE (GEOMS attribute values (expired))
ERROR_SQL=select plottype, plottype, description from plottype ORDER BY plottype;top

 VIS_SCALE_TYPE_01 (GEOMS attribute values (expired))
ERROR_SQL=select scaletype, scaletype, description from plotscaletype ORDER BY scaletype;top

 VIS_SCALE_TYPE_02 (GEOMS attribute values (expired))
ERROR_SQL=select scaleorder, scaleorder, description from plotscaleorder ORDER BY scaleorder;top
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