visad.georef
Interface EarthLocation

All Superinterfaces:

Data, LatLonPoint, Thing

All Known Subinterfaces:

NamedLocation

All Known Implementing Classes:

EarthLocationLite, EarthLocationTuple, NamedLocationTuple

public interface EarthLocation
extends LatLonPoint

Interface for specifying a point on the earth's surface in terms of latitude, longitude and altitude above sea level.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface visad.Data

ABS, ACOS, ACOS_DEGREES, ADD, ASIN, ASIN_DEGREES, ATAN, ATAN_DEGREES, ATAN2, ATAN2_DEGREES, CEIL, COS, COS_DEGREES, DEGREES_TO_RADIANS, DEPENDENT, DIVIDE, EXP, FLOOR, INDEPENDENT, INV_ATAN2, INV_ATAN2_DEGREES, INV_DIVIDE, INV_POW, INV_REMAINDER, INV_SUBTRACT, LOG, MAX, MIN, MULTIPLY, NEAREST_NEIGHBOR, NEGATE, NO_ERRORS, NOP, POW, RADIANS_TO_DEGREES, REMAINDER, RINT, ROUND, SIN, SIN_DEGREES, SQRT, SUBTRACT, TAN, TAN_DEGREES, WEIGHTED_AVERAGE

Method Summary

Real	getAltitude() Get the latitude of this point
LatLonPoint	getLatLonPoint() Get the latitude/longitude of this point as a LatLonPoint

Methods inherited from interface visad.georef.LatLonPoint

equals, getLatitude, getLongitude

Methods inherited from interface visad.Data

abs, abs, acos, acos, acosDegrees, acosDegrees, add, add, adjustSamplingError, asin, asin, asinDegrees, asinDegrees, atan, atan, atan2, atan2, atan2Degrees, atan2Degrees, atanDegrees, atanDegrees, binary, binary, ceil, ceil, changeMathType, computeRanges, computeRanges, computeRanges, cos, cos, cosDegrees, cosDegrees, dataClone, divide, divide, exp, exp, floor, floor, getType, isMissing, local, log, log, longString, longString, max, max, min, min, multiply, multiply, negate, negate, pow, pow, remainder, remainder, rint, rint, round, round, sin, sin, sinDegrees, sinDegrees, sqrt, sqrt, subtract, subtract, tan, tan, tanDegrees, tanDegrees, unary, unary

Methods inherited from interface visad.Thing

addReference, removeReference

Method Detail

getAltitude

Real getAltitude()

Get the latitude of this point

Returns:

Real representing the latitude

getLatLonPoint

LatLonPoint getLatLonPoint()

Get the latitude/longitude of this point as a LatLonPoint

Returns:

LatLonPoint representing the latitude/longitude