org.deegree.geometry.primitive.patches
Interface Sphere

All Superinterfaces:

GriddedSurfacePatch, SurfacePatch

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultSphere

public interface Sphere
extends GriddedSurfacePatch

The Sphere class represents (according to GML-3.1 spec) a gridded surface given as a family of circles whose positions vary linearly along the axis of the sphere, and whose radius varies in proportions to the cosine function of the central angle. The horizontal circles resemble lines of constant latitude, and the vertical arcs resemble lines of constant longitude.

Version:

$Revision: 31641 $, $Date: 2011-08-24 21:24:55 +0200 (Wed, 24 Aug 2011) $

Author:

Andrei Ionita, last edited by: $Author: mschneider $

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.deegree.geometry.primitive.patches.GriddedSurfacePatch

GriddedSurfacePatch.GriddedSurfaceType

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.deegree.geometry.primitive.patches.SurfacePatch

SurfacePatch.SurfacePatchType

Method Summary

GriddedSurfacePatch.GriddedSurfaceType

getGriddedSurfaceType() Must always return GriddedSurfacePatch.GriddedSurfaceType.SPHERE.

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.geometry.primitive.patches.GriddedSurfacePatch

getNumColumns, getNumRows, getRow, getRows

Methods inherited from interface org.deegree.geometry.primitive.patches.SurfacePatch

getArea, getCoordinateDimension, getSurfacePatchType

Method Detail

getGriddedSurfaceType

GriddedSurfacePatch.GriddedSurfaceType getGriddedSurfaceType()

Must always return GriddedSurfacePatch.GriddedSurfaceType.SPHERE.

Specified by:

getGriddedSurfaceType in interface GriddedSurfacePatch

Returns:

GriddedSurfacePatch.GriddedSurfaceType.SPHERE