ucar.nc2.ft
Interface ProfileFeature

All Superinterfaces:
FeatureCollection, PointFeatureCollection
All Known Implementing Classes:
ProfileFeatureImpl

public interface ProfileFeature
extends PointFeatureCollection

A set of observations along the vertical (z) axis. A profile has a nominal lat/lon and time. Actual time may be constant, or vary with z. The z coordinates are monotonic, and may be increasing or decreasing.

Since:
Feb 8, 2008
Author:
caron

Method Summary
 LatLonPoint getLatLon()
          Nominal location of this profile
 Date getTime()
          Nominal time of the profile
 int size()
          The number of points along the z axis.
 
Methods inherited from interface ucar.nc2.ft.PointFeatureCollection
calcBounds, finish, getBoundingBox, getDateRange, getPointFeatureIterator, hasNext, next, resetIteration, setBoundingBox, setDateRange, setSize, subset
 
Methods inherited from interface ucar.nc2.ft.FeatureCollection
getCollectionFeatureType, getName
 

Method Detail

getLatLon

LatLonPoint getLatLon()
Nominal location of this profile

Returns:
the nominal location of this profile

getTime

Date getTime()
Nominal time of the profile

Returns:
the nominal time of this profile

size

int size()
The number of points along the z axis. May not be known until after iterating through the collection.

Specified by:
size in interface PointFeatureCollection
Returns:
number of points along the z axis, or -1 if not known.


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