Jody Garnett ha scritto: > A coverage (such as provided by the NetCDF format) that has more then > row/col/band information. Often used to capture raster information > that changes over time, or changes over height (forming a volume of > voxels). > > Does that mean that changes of time form chronxels? > > In anycase you get the idea, we need to provide a few more parameters > when getting back the band information (time or elevation in the two > examples above). > > Normally we deal with 2D raster information, because we don't know the > "number" of extra dimensions for the data we give up and use the > mathematical notion "N" for an nD raster. > > Jody > PS. perhaps Nixel? I like nixel
3d pixels are called voxels, 3d + time ones sometimes doxels, not sure there is a n- dimensional term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
