Cassini CIRS Sample Volume Peer Review Minutes
15 January 2004

Reviewers Present:

Lyle Huber
Mark Vincent
Ron Joyner
Steve Adams
Conor Nixon
Tyler Brown
Barney Conrath
Ah-San Wong
Diane Conner


Reviewers Absent:

Amy Simon-Miller
Mark Showalter
Mitch Gordon
Jeff Cuzzi
Sushil Atreya
Mike Flasar
Reta Beebe


Review comments submitted prior to the review are posted at
http://atmos.nmsu.edu/review/cirs.html and should be reviewed
for any and all actions.

The panel's decision was that it would like to see the resolution 
of these liens before approving the CIRS Sample Volume. The 
spreadsheet of action items is also posted on the web site above.



The following major issues were identified as of being the highest
importance to address:

1) The labeling of .FMT and .TXT files must be fixed.

2) The SOFTWARE directories are not in good shape. The cirs_* routines
   if they are to remain on the volume must be rewritten to remove all
   hard-coded directory locations. Otherwise, they should probably be
   removed. (Putting them in an EXTRAS directory does not really solve
   the problem.)

2a) All SOFTWARE documentation and examples are insufficient for users.

3) Again, the issue was raised about the appropriateness for archive
   of Vanilla-formatted data. However, it is clear that a redesign of
   the archive database is very likely not in the CIRS budget. At the
   very least, the labeling method for the .VAR files is still inadequate.
   Huber and Joyner will assist the CIRS team in designing a satisfactory
   resolution.


Further discussion relative to these and other issues went as follows:

- Examples should be generated which would generate the wavenumber and
  bin size information from a Vanilla call and also one which would
  extract a subset from the database into a data file. There was also
  some trouble with the units of wavenumber and flux although Nixon
  noted that this information is in the SIS. The consensus was to put
  unit information also into an example and into the .FMT files.

- AIFM files are a sort of intermediate level of processing and may
  be redundant.

- The C23* files in the DOCUMENT directory should be moved to the INDEX
  directory. Huber will provide a labeling/naming system for these
  files.

- Any remaining SOFTWARE will need to be labeled. Huber will provide 
  a labeling method.

- The AAREADME.TXT file and certain other documentation need to be improved.

- Conrath asked about the NESR (Noise Equivalent Spectral Radiance) files.
  These should be included.

- PDS will return information on DVD formats to Conner and to the CIRS team.

- Other simple issues are noted in the individual reviewer's comments and
  should be addressed.