Tiny nomenclature nits in SIA V2 spec
Tom McGlynn (NASA/GSFC Code 660.1)
tom.mcglynn at nasa.gov
Thu Feb 18 17:31:21 CET 2016
Reading the spec today I was initially confused by a couple of
references to 'open or closed intervals' in parameter selections (e.g.,
in 2.1.2 and 2.1.3) which to me naively is a statement about whether the
end points are included. What was intended here was surely the
'open-ended' interval -- where one of the limits is +/- infinity used
elsewhere in the spec and almost but not quite defined in 2.1.
There's also a bit of confusing text in 2.1: "If the lower or upper
bound is not specified, the range is open-ended." but in 2.1.2 we see that
BAND=-Inf 0.21
is open-ended while
BAND=0.21
which drops one of the bounds is not an interval at all, but rather a
constraint on the minima and maxiuma of the data if: b_min<= 0.21 and
b_max>=0.21
which seems a bit inconsistent.
Nothing big here, but briefly confusing.
Tom McGlynn
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