2. Data Quality Information

• a general assessment of the quality of the data set. (Recommendations on information to be reported and tests to be performed are found in "Spatial Data Quality", which is chapter 3 of part 1 in Department of Commerce, 1992, Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) (Federal Information Processing Standard 173): Washington, Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.)

Type:

compound

Short Name:

dataqual

2. Data Quality Information (Mandatory if Applicable)
     CONTAINS
     2.1 Attribute Accuracy (Mandatory if Applicable)
     AND
     2.2 Logical Consistency Report (Mandatory)
     AND
     2.3 Completeness Report (Mandatory)
     AND
     2.4 Positional Accuracy (Mandatory if Applicable)
     AND
     2.5 Lineage (Mandatory)
     AND
     2.6 Cloud Cover (Optional)

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