[SIS-3] Refactor SIS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1-incubating
• Component/s: Geometry, Referencing

Environment

indep. of env.

• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
• Created: 03/Apr/10 04:35
• Updated: 28/Jul/16 21:27
• Resolved: 18/Aug/10 14:03

Description

Now with SIS-1 out of the way, I'll begin work on refactoring what we've got for SIS so far.

After reading [1], I think we should begin with the definition of a spatio-temporal reference identified there:

Any measurement we take in Earth and environmental sciences, although this is often ignored, has a spatio-temporal reference. A spatio-temporal reference is determined by (at least) four parameters:

1. geographic location (longitude and latitude or projected X,Y coordinates);
2. height above the ground surface (elevation);
3. time of measurement (year, month, day, hour, minute etc.);
4. spatio-temporal support (size of the blocks of material associated with measurements; time interval of measurement);

I'm going to use this issue to track that focus of the initial refactoring.

[1] http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_67/8010000/8010854/5/print/Hengl_2009_GEOSTATe2c1_f.pdf