Re: [Geotools-devel] Sparse coverages

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Bedward
It's an interesting idea. I frequently encounter sparse raster data in my own projects - both structured and unstructured. Where the data are both sparse overall but locally clumpy I guess a collection of images and envelopes would work. For highly diffuse data it might be better to use one of th

[Geotools-devel] Sparse coverages

2009-06-15 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, I was making a conversation on IRC and it occurred to me that, apparently, we don't have such great support for sparse coverages, that is, a coverage whose single, general envelope covers a large area, but whose data covers only a small subset of it. The WCS DescribeCoverage seems to support