Interface SphericalCS

All Superinterfaces:

Coordinate­System, Identified­Object

All Known Implementing Classes:

Default­Spherical­CS

@UML(identifier="CS_SphericalCS",
     specification=ISO_19111)
public interface SphericalCS
extends CoordinateSystem

A three-dimensional coordinate system with one distance measured from the origin and two angular coordinates. Not to be confused with an ellipsoidal coordinate system based on an ellipsoid "degenerated" into a sphere. A Spherical­CS shall have three axis associations.

Used with CRS type(s)
Geocentric, Engineering

Since:

1.0

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface IdentifiedObject

ALIAS_KEY, IDENTIFIERS_KEY, NAME_KEY, REMARKS_KEY

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	ALIAS_KEY	Key for the "alias" property to be given to the object factory create­Foo(…) methods.
static final String	IDENTIFIERS_KEY	Key for the "identifiers" property to be given to the object factory create­Foo(…) methods.
static final String	NAME_KEY	Key for the "name" property to be given to the object factory create­Foo(…) methods.
static final String	REMARKS_KEY	Key for the "remarks" property to be given to the object factory create­Foo(…) methods.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface CoordinateSystem

get­Axis, get­Dimension

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Coordinate­System­Axis	get­Axis(int dimension)	Returns the axis for this coordinate system at the specified dimension.
int	get­Dimension()	Returns the dimension of the coordinate system.

Methods inherited from interface IdentifiedObject

get­Alias, get­Identifiers, get­Name, get­Remarks, to­WKT

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Collection<Generic­Name>	get­Alias()	An alternative name by which this object is identified.
Set<Reference­Identifier>	get­Identifiers()	An identifier which references elsewhere the object's defining information.
Reference­Identifier	get­Name()	The primary name by which this object is identified.
International­String	get­Remarks()	Comments on or information about this object, including data source information.
String	to­WKT()	Returns a Well Known Text (WKT) for this object.