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

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
StructureData	getFeatureData() The actual data of just this feature.
LatLonPoint	getLatLon() Nominal location of this profile
java.util.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, getAltUnits, getBoundingBox, getCalendarDateRange, getDateRange, getExtraVariables, getPointFeatureIterator, getTimeUnit, hasNext, next, resetIteration, setBoundingBox, setCalendarDateRange, setDateRange, setSize, subset, 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

java.util.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.

getFeatureData

StructureData getFeatureData()
                      throws java.io.IOException

The actual data of just this feature.

Returns:

the actual data of this feature.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - on i/o error