ucar.nc2.ft
Interface ProfileFeature

All Superinterfaces:
FeatureCollection, PointFeatureCollection

public interface ProfileFeature
extends PointFeatureCollection

A set of observations along the vertical (z) axis. All obs have the same lat/lon. Time is either constant, or it may vary with z. The z coordinates are monotonic, and may be increasing or decreasing.

Since:
Feb 8, 2008
Author:
caron

Method Summary
 LatLonPoint getLatLon()
          Location of this 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

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.

getLatLon

LatLonPoint getLatLon()
Location of this profile

Returns:
the location of this observation as a lat/lon point