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 monotonc, but 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
getPointFeatureIterator, hasNext, next, resetIteration, 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