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The URL for the landing page of the DPDG document is currently https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/data-producer-resources/data-product-development-standards and the "data-product-development-standards" part at the end of the URL is inaccurate. Rama (Hampapuram Ramapriyan) and I think th...

V2.0 Data Product Development Guide (DPDG) for Data Producers (https://doi.org/10.5067/DOC/ESCO/RFC-041VERSION2) Section 4.6, titled “Global Attributes”, should be expanded. V2.0 DPDG Section 4.6 currently only contains one subsection, Section 4.6.1 “Provenance”, which matches V2.0 DPDG Appendix D.6...

I am producing a gridded soil-moisture product in netCDF. The data in each grid cell can be either high quality, low quality or missing. There are many reasons for why data can be missing from a grid cell, and I think it is worth noting why the data are missing in each case. How should I represent t...

Under what circumstances should I use the missing_value attribute in my Earth Science data product?