Package org.opengis.metadata.extent

Extent information. The following is adapted from OpenGIS® Metadata (Topic 11) specification.

The datatype in this package is an aggregate of the metadata elements that describe the spatial and temporal extent of the referring entity. The extent entity contains information about the geographic, temporal and the vertical extent of the referring entity.

The geographic extent can be subclassed as bounding polygon, geographic bounding box and geographic description.

Since:

GeoAPI 1.0

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
BoundingPolygon	Boundary enclosing the dataset, expressed as the closed set of (x,y) coordinates of the polygon.
Extent	Information about spatial, vertical, and temporal extent.
GeographicBoundingBox	Geographic position of the dataset.
GeographicDescription	Description of the geographic area using identifiers.
GeographicExtent	Base interface for geographic area of the dataset.
SpatialTemporalExtent	Extent with respect to date/time and spatial boundaries.
TemporalExtent	Time period covered by the content of the dataset.
VerticalExtent	Vertical domain of dataset.