Re: The Multiple types of coverage requirement

Hello all,

I have the feeling my original question still needs answering: What exactly
do we think is required?

I have created an issue for this in the tracker: ISSUE-19
<https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/19>.

Regards,
Frans



2015-06-04 23:30 GMT+02:00 <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>:

>  There is an existing branch of the OGC /def/ space for 'coverage-type' -
> see http://www.opengis.net/def/coverageType/
>
> Currently the types listed there all relate to some special requirements
> from some OGC Earth Observation standards -
> http://www.opengis.net/def/coverageType/OGC-EO/ but this is a potential
> place to put a suitable list.
>
>
>
> BTW - real soon now we will change the platform used to manage and publish
> the OGC definitions. This will enable management of branches of the tree to
> be delegated. This could support other requirements emerging from SDWWG.
>
>
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> *From:* Alejandro Llaves [allaves@fi.upm.es]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 3 June 2015 11:57 PM
> *To:* Peter Baumann
> *Cc:* Taylor, Kerry (Digital, Acton); Frans Knibbe; SDW WG Public List
> *Subject:* Re: The Multiple types of coverage requirement
>
>   For instance, the description of the coverage type and a link to a
> superclass entity, such as "coverage types by grid complexity"?
>
>  Alejandro
>
> On 1 June 2015 at 16:20, Peter Baumann <p.baumann@jacobs-university.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Alejandro-
>>
>> nope, no URIs defined as of yet. What information could be provided at
>> the target of the URI?
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/01/15 15:16, Alejandro Llaves wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Peter! Are there URIs for these identifiers? If not, I think this
>> may be work for the group's Coverage in Linked Data deliverable. For now, I
>> can add them as examples for the Multiple types of coverage
>> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/UseCases/SDWUseCasesAndRequirements.html#MultipleTypesOfCoverage> requirement.
>>
>>
>>  Cheers,
>> Alejandro
>>
>> On 1 June 2015 at 14:49, Peter Baumann <p.baumann@jacobs-university.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a classification by grid complexity, hope it helps somehow:
>>>
>>> - just array, mapping is 1:1
>>>     -> GridCoverage (GML 3.2.1)
>>> - linear mapping from n-D array to n-D grid, g = a*x+b for a,b in R^n
>>>     -> RectifiedGridCoverage
>>> - linear mapping with g = A*x+b for A in R^n*n
>>>     -> ReferenceableGridCoverage, byVector
>>> - linear mapping from n-D array (x_n) to m-D grid (g_m), m>n: g_m = A *
>>> x_n + b for A in R^n*m
>>>     ->ReferenceableGridCoverage, byArray
>>> - nonaffine transformations, ex: Sensor geometries
>>>
>>> (anybody disagreeing?)
>>>
>>> One could classify along dimension axes (horizontal, vertical, time,
>>> ...) but the above one I believe is most helpful for the purpose on hand,
>>> and it also very much determines implementation complexity and dataset
>>> sizes (in particular: byArray approx. doubles data set size).
>>>
>>> -Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/31/15 09:35, Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au wrote:
>>>
>>> I am quite ok with the UCR expressed as it is, but I note that our use
>>> cases do not actually require very many of these multiple types and I
>>> suggest that we should look more closely at * which* of the multiple types
>>> we really need as we go progress. I would like to suggest that we make a
>>> note of this in the UCR, attached to this requirement, to prevent  the
>>> "multiple" being interpreted as"all that have ever been thought of" .
>>>
>>>  note- i am prepared to back down on the request for the note, as  I
>>> think argued almost contradictorily in the case of "multiple" applied to
>>> "multilingual" in last week's meeting. Although in that language case I saw
>>> no harm other than realism in attacking every conceivable language, but in
>>> the coverage case I think there is a risk of harm in confusion if we take
>>>  on too many, which is worse.
>>>
>>>  Kerry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 May 2015, at 11:47 pm, "Peter Baumann" <
>>> p.baumann@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Frans-
>>>
>>> here a slate (not comprehensive, but likely covering all considered by
>>> W3C currently):
>>> - gridded coverages:
>>>     - by dimension: 1-D through 4-D (climate people also consider 5-D)
>>>     - by grid type:
>>>         - regular grid (equidistant spacing ("resolution"), such as
>>> ortho imagery)
>>>         - irregular grids (grid lines have individual spacing per axis,
>>> such as timeseries often have)
>>>         - warped grids (grid points sit anywhere in space, but still
>>> topologically isomorphic to a grid)
>>>         - sensor grids (geo position of grid points determined by sensor
>>> model, usually some involved non-linear algorithm)
>>> - non-gridded coverages:
>>>     - point clouds
>>>     - (rest likely not of interest here)
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/29/15 14:36, Frans Knibbe wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Alejandro,
>>>
>>>  I am looking at the Multiple types of coverage
>>> <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/UseCases/SDWUseCasesAndRequirements.html#MultipleTypesOfCoverage>
>>> requirement now: "It should be possible to represent many different types
>>> of coverage."
>>>
>>>  Does this mean some kind of standard classification of coverage types
>>> is required, so the coverage type can be indicated in the metadata for
>>> example?
>>>
>>>  Or does this mean that there should be standard encodings for
>>> different coverage types?
>>>
>>>  Greetings,
>>> Frans
>>>
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