On 12/04/2009 02:34 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > 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 > >
From the peanut gallery: wouldn't a "nixel" be a zero-dimensional pixel? -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
