Recent standards have provided a wide range of choices for representing large and complex arrays of environmental remote sensing data. The standards offer many features for the data arrays themselves and descriptive metadata. Current sensors for applications such multispectral and conical microwave imaging, or limb and vertical sounding produce complex data sets that can take good advantage of data standard features. To accommodate data set complexity, producers, users and archivists create profiles for specific data sets within a standard. Depending on the data architect�s view of the system, these profiles can represent the same underlying data set in any of several different ways.

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