MISR format version, product version, and collection

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MISR format version, product version, and collection

by EarthdataForumContributor » Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:05 pm America/New_York

What is meant by Format Version? Product Version? Collection?

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Re: MISR format version, product version, and collection

by asdc_user_services » Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:05 pm America/New_York

The format Version is used to distinguish between software deliveries to ASDC that result in a product format change. The format version is given in the MISR data file name using the designator _Fnn_ where nn is the version number.

The product version is given in the MISR data file name using the designator _nnnn_ where nnnn is the product version number. Early on in the mission, several significant changes to ancillary datasets were required, and these changes triggered Product Version increments. At this point in time, most of the static ancillary data sets have stabilized and major changes to them are not predicted. Therefore, product version numbers are not necessarily incremented because of ancillary data set deliveries.

As MISR continues to reprocess the data products, Collections of scientifically consistent sets of data product versions become available. Collections may contain multiple format, production, and ESDT Versions.

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