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. 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