Class BarnesSurfaceProcess
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- BarnesSurfaceProcess
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VectorProcess
public class BarnesSurfaceProcess extends Object implements VectorProcess
A Process that uses aBarnesSurfaceInterpolator
to compute an interpolated surface over a set of irregular data points as aGridCoverage
.The implementation allows limiting the radius of influence of observations, in order to prevent extrapolation into unsupported areas, and to increase performance (by reducing the number of observations considered).
To improve performance, the surface grid can be computed at a lower resolution than the requested output image. The grid is upsampled to match the required image size. Upsampling uses Bilinear Interpolation to maintain visual quality. This gives a large improvement in performance, with minimal impact on visual quality for small cell sizes (for instance, 10 pixels or less).
To ensure that the computed surface is stable (i.e. does not display obvious edge artifacts during zooming, panning and tiling), the data query extent should be expanded to be larger than the specified output extent. This includes "nearby" points which may affect the value of the surface. The expansion distance depends on the length scale, convergence factor, and data spacing in a complex way, so must be manually determined. It does NOT depend on the output window extent. (A good heuristic is to set it to expand by at least the size of the length scale.)
To prevent excessive CPU consumption, the process allows limiting the number of data points to process. If the limit is exceeded the output is computed consuming and using only the maximum number of points specified.
Parameters
M = mandatory, O = optional- data (M) - the FeatureCollection containing the point observations
- valueAttr (M)- the feature type attribute containing the observed surface value
- dataLimit (O)- the maximum number of input points to process
- scale (M) - the Length Scale for the interpolation. In units of the input data CRS.
- convergence (O) - the convergence factor for refinement. Between 0 and 1 (values below 0.4 are safest). (Default = 0.3)
- passes (O) - the number of passes to compute. 1 or greater. (Default = 2)
- minObservations (O) - The minimum number of observations required to support a grid cell. (Default = 2)
- maxObservationDistance (O) - The maximum distance to an observation for it to support a grid cell. 0 means all observations are used. In units of the input data CRS. (Default = 0)
- noDataValue (O) - The NO_DATA value to use for unsupported grid cells in the output coverage. (Default = -999)
- pixelsPerCell (O) - The pixels-per-cell value determines the resolution of the computed grid. Larger values improve performance, but may degrade appearance. (Default = 1)
- queryBuffer (O) - The distance to expand the query envelope by. Larger values provide a more stable surface. In units of the input data CRS. (Default = 0)
- outputBBOX (M) - The georeferenced bounding box of the output area
- outputWidth (M) - The width of the output raster
- outputHeight (M) - The height of the output raster
valueAttr
.Computation of the surface takes places in the CRS of the output. If the data CRS is geodetic and the output CRS is planar, or vice-versa, the input points are transformed into the output CRS. A simple technique is used to convert the surface distance parameters
scale
andmaxObservationDistance
into the output CRS units.Using the process as a Rendering Transformation
This process can be used as a RenderingTransformation, since it implements the invertQuery(... Query, GridGeometry) method.When used as an Rendering Transformation the process rewrites data query to expand the query BBOX. This includes "nearby" data points to make the computed surface stable under panning and zooming. To support this the
queryBuffer
parameter should be specified to expand the query extent appropriately.The output raster parameters can be determined from the request extents, using the following SLD environment variables:
- outputBBOX - env var = wms_bbox
- outputWidth - env var = wms_width
- outputHeight - env var = wms_height
- Author:
- Martin Davis - OpenGeo
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Constructor Description BarnesSurfaceProcess()
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Method Summary
All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method Description GridCoverage2D
execute(SimpleFeatureCollection obsFeatures, String valueAttr, Integer argDataLimit, Double argScale, Double argConvergence, Integer argPasses, Integer argMinObsCount, Double argMaxObsDistance, Double argNoDataValue, Integer argPixelsPerCell, Double argQueryBuffer, ReferencedEnvelope outputEnv, Integer outputWidth, Integer outputHeight, ProgressListener monitor)
static Coordinate[]
extractPoints(SimpleFeatureCollection obsPoints, String attrName, MathTransform trans, int dataLimit)
Query
invertQuery(Double argQueryBuffer, Query targetQuery, GridGeometry targetGridGeometry)
Given a target query and a target grid geometry returns the query to be used to read the input data of the process involved in rendering.
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Method Detail
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execute
public GridCoverage2D execute(SimpleFeatureCollection obsFeatures, String valueAttr, Integer argDataLimit, Double argScale, Double argConvergence, Integer argPasses, Integer argMinObsCount, Double argMaxObsDistance, Double argNoDataValue, Integer argPixelsPerCell, Double argQueryBuffer, ReferencedEnvelope outputEnv, Integer outputWidth, Integer outputHeight, ProgressListener monitor) throws ProcessException
- Throws:
ProcessException
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invertQuery
public Query invertQuery(Double argQueryBuffer, Query targetQuery, GridGeometry targetGridGeometry) throws ProcessException
Given a target query and a target grid geometry returns the query to be used to read the input data of the process involved in rendering. In this process this method is used to:- determine the extent & CRS of the output grid
- expand the query envelope to ensure stable surface generation
- modify the query hints to ensure point features are returned
- Parameters:
argQueryBuffer
- the distance by which to expand the query windowtargetQuery
- the query used against the data sourcetargetGridGeometry
- the grid geometry of the destination image- Returns:
- The transformed query
- Throws:
ProcessException
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extractPoints
public static Coordinate[] extractPoints(SimpleFeatureCollection obsPoints, String attrName, MathTransform trans, int dataLimit) throws CQLException
- Throws:
CQLException
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