org.geotools.coverage.processing.operation
Class Crop

Object
  extended by AbstractOperation
      extended by Operation2D
          extended by Crop
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Operation

public class Crop
extends Operation2D

The crop operation is responsible for selecting geographic subarea of the source coverage. The CoverageCrop operation does not merely wrap the JAI Crop operation but it goes beyond that as far as capabilities.

The key point is that the CoverageCrop operation aims to perform a spatial crop, i.e. cropping the underlying raster by providing a spatial Envelope (if the envelope is not 2D only the 2D part of it will be used). This means that, depending on the grid-to-world transformation existing for the raster we want to crop, the crop area in the raster space might not be a rectangle, hence JAI's crop may not suffice in order to shrink the raster area we would obtain. For this purpose this operation make use of either the JAI's Crop or Mosaic operations depending on the conditions in which we are working.

Meaning of the ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE parameter
In general if the grid-to-world transform is a simple scale and translate using JAI's crop should suffice, but when the g2w transform contains rotations or skew then we need something more elaborate since a rectangle in model space may not map to a rectangle in raster space. We would still be able to crop using JAI's crop on this polygon bounds but, depending on how this rectangle is built, we would be highly inefficient. In order to overcome this problems we use a combination of JAI's crop and mosaic since the mosaic can be used to crop a raster using a general ROI instead of a simple rectangle. There is a negative effect though. Crop would not create a new raster but simply forwards requests back to the original one (it basically create a viewport on the source raster) while the mosaic operation creates a new raster. We try to address this trade-off by providing the parameter ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE, which basically tells this operation "Use the mosaic operation only if the area that we would load with the Mosaic is strictly smaller then (ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE)* A' where A' is the area of the polygon resulting from converting the crop area from the model space to the raster space.

Meaning of the CONSERVE_ENVELOPE parameter
Deprecated.

NOTE that in case we will use the Mosaic operation with a ROI, such a ROI will be added as a synthetic property to the resulting coverage. The key for this property will be GC_ROI and the type of the object Polygon.

Since:
2.3
Author:
Simone Giannecchini
See Also:
ScaleDescriptor, Serialized Form
Module:

Field Summary
static ParameterDescriptor<Boolean> CONSERVE_ENVELOPE
          Deprecated.  
static ParameterDescriptor<Envelope> CROP_ENVELOPE
          The parameter descriptor used to pass this operation the envelope to use when doing the spatial crop.
static ParameterDescriptor<Double> ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE
          The parameter descriptor used to tell this operation to optimize the crop using a Mosaic in where the area of the image we would not load is smaller than ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE*FULL_CROP.
 
Fields inherited from class Operation2D
PRIMARY_SOURCE_INDEX, SOURCE_0
 
Fields inherited from class AbstractOperation
descriptor
 
Constructor Summary
Crop()
          Constructs a default "Crop" operation.
 
Method Summary
 Coverage doOperation(ParameterValueGroup parameters, Hints hints)
          Applies a crop operation to a coverage.
 
Methods inherited from class Operation2D
computeOnGeophysicsValues, extractSources, getFactory
 
Methods inherited from class AbstractOperation
ensureNonNull, equals, getDescription, getDocURL, getName, getNumSources, getParameters, getProcessor, getVendor, getVersion, hashCode, toString
 
Methods inherited from class Object
clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

CROP_ENVELOPE

public static final ParameterDescriptor<Envelope> CROP_ENVELOPE
The parameter descriptor used to pass this operation the envelope to use when doing the spatial crop.


ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE

public static final ParameterDescriptor<Double> ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE
The parameter descriptor used to tell this operation to optimize the crop using a Mosaic in where the area of the image we would not load is smaller than ROI_OPTIMISATION_TOLERANCE*FULL_CROP.


CONSERVE_ENVELOPE

public static final ParameterDescriptor<Boolean> CONSERVE_ENVELOPE
Deprecated. 
The parameter descriptor is basically a simple boolean that tells this operation to try to conserve the envelope that it gets as input.

Note that this might mean obtaining a coverage whose grid to world 2D has been slightly changed to account for the rounding which is applied in order to get integer coordinate for the raster to crop.

See this class javadocs for an explanation.

Constructor Detail

Crop

public Crop()
Constructs a default "Crop" operation.

Method Detail

doOperation

public Coverage doOperation(ParameterValueGroup parameters,
                            Hints hints)
Applies a crop operation to a coverage.

Specified by:
doOperation in class AbstractOperation
Parameters:
parameters - List of name value pairs for the parameters required for the operation.
hints - A set of rendering hints, or null if none. The DefaultProcessor may provides hints for the following keys: Hints.COORDINATE_OPERATION_FACTORY and Hints.JAI_INSTANCE.
Returns:
The result as a coverage.
See Also:
AbstractOperation.doOperation(org.opengis.parameter.ParameterValueGroup, org.geotools.factory.Hints)


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