Uncertainty Metadata Naming Conventions (UNC)#
The goal of these metadata naming conventions is to provide a standardised format for storing the accompanying uncertainty/error-covariance information with measurement datasets. This format is intended to support fully capturing the content of the error-covariance matrices associated with measurement data in a compact structure, by parameterising error-covariance with a simple set of metadata.
This work is part of the CoMet Toolkit (community metrology toolkit) initiative, which includes Python tools to support it’s implementation.
For the latest version of the UNC Specification
For all versions of the UNC Specification - including web and PDF
For information on governance around developing this standard
For more information about CoMet Toolkit
Acknowledgements#
The development has been funded by:
The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology’s (DSIT) National Measurement System (NMS) programme
The IDEAS-QA4EO project funded by the European Space Agency.