I need to provide information about the mission, and the platforms, instruments and sensors associated with the resource.

Overview

The Acquisition Information package is used for describing the acquisition of imagery and gridded datasets.  This package includes fields for describing hardware (platforms, instruments, sensors, etc), requirements, plans, operations and objectives.

Recommendations

Documentation Objectives

• Add platform identification information to the metadata.
• Add platform description information to the metadata.
• Add instrument identification information to the metadata.
• Add instrument description information to the metadata.
• Add an operations statement describing the scientific endeavor(s) to which the series/collection is associated to the metadata.

Implementation (XML)

Implementation (NcML)

Usage

Crosswalks

Notes