If you *really* can't change the contents of the binary datasets (this
would be quite easy with nco http://nco.sourceforge.net/ using "ncatted"),
can you use a small bit of NcML to add the "units" attribute to the "depth"
variable and access your dataset through the NcML?
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:51 AM Niels Charlier <niels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having another issue with one of our datasets. This time the cause of
> the problem is the lack of a unit for "depth" in this data.
> netcdf-java's DefaultConvention doesn't set the axis type to "Height"
> (because it expects "m" for unit type in order to do that).
>
> I cannot actually change the content of the binary datasets.
>
> Would another convention solve this issue, and can I select the
> convention programmatically? (then we can make it a config setting from
> geotools).
> At first glance it doesn't look like the code for CF1Convention would be
> able to detect it.
>
> Or how can we go around this using additional configuration?
>
> Regards,
> Niels
>
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