Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Bedward
Hi Simone, Many thanks for the additional explanation. of course your input would be valuable. What should we do in order to ease your job on this and get feedback from you? Documentation/Examples/? I'd love to see one or more examples and I imagine that might be less work at your end than

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-04 Thread David Winslow
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

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Bedward
 From the peanut gallery: wouldn't a nixel be a zero-dimensional pixel? Very good :) -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-03 Thread Jody Garnett
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,

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Holmes
See also http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Multidimensional+Grid+Motivation+and+Scope Jody Garnett wrote: 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

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-03 Thread Michael Bedward
+1 for Nixel :-) Thanks very much for that link Chris. I'd love to see this work go forward. From a purely selfish point of view my own projects rely on this type of grid data. Michael -- Join us December 9, 2009 for

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-03 Thread Andrea Aime
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?

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-03 Thread Simone Giannecchini
Ciao Michael, sorry for the late answer, what Jody provided you with is a nice description of what we are trying to achieve. One clarification though, as you can see from slide number 19 here: http://www.slideshare.net/geosolutions/geosolutions-foss4g-2009-redux what we are trying to achieve

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-03 Thread Simone Giannecchini
Ciao Michael, of course your input would be valuable. What should we do in order to ease your job on this and get feedback from you? Documentation/Examples/? I would also like to see, in time of course, feedback from the other dev and psc who are/might be interested (ciao gabriel :-) ). Simone.

[Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-01 Thread Daniele Romagnoli
Hi List, these days we are working on handling data available as HDF4, NetCDF, GRIB1. Part of this work is based on the coverage api developed by Simone some time ago. They are the base interfaces on top of what we have also developed the core framework of the ND plugins, the ND metadata as well

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-01 Thread Andrea Aime
Daniele Romagnoli ha scritto: Hi List, these days we are working on handling data available as HDF4, NetCDF, GRIB1. Part of this work is based on the coverage api developed by Simone some time ago. They are the base interfaces on top of what we have also developed the core framework of the

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-01 Thread Jody Garnett
I am of course very keen to see this one move forward :-) Jody On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Daniele Romagnoli daniele.romagn...@geo-solutions.it wrote: Hi List, these days we are working on handling data available as HDF4, NetCDF, GRIB1. Part of this work is based on the coverage api

Re: [Geotools-devel] ND Coverage-api on unsupported

2009-12-01 Thread Michael Bedward
Hello all, At the risk of showing how slow and out of touch I am, could someone explain what an ND coverage is or point me to some docs. Cheers, Michael -- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a