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Interface StationCollection

All Known Subinterfaces:

StationProfileFeatureCollection, StationRadialDataset, StationTimeSeriesFeatureCollection

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositeStationCollection, RemoteStationCollection, StandardStationCollectionImpl, StandardStationProfileCollectionImpl, StationProfileCollectionImpl, StationTimeSeriesCollectionImpl

public interface StationCollection

A collection of data at named locations called Stations. User can subset by bounding box .

Author:

caron

Method Summary

LatLonRect	getBoundingBox() Get the bounding box including all the stations.
Station	getStation(String name) Find a Station by name.
List<Station>	getStations() Get all the Stations in the collection.
List<Station>	getStations(LatLonRect boundingBox) Get all the Stations within a bounding box.
List<Station>	getStations(List<String> stnNames) Translate list of station names to list of Stations.

Method Detail

getStations

List<Station> getStations()
                          throws IOException

Get all the Stations in the collection.

Returns:

List of Station

Throws:

IOException - on i/o error

getStations

List<Station> getStations(LatLonRect boundingBox)
                          throws IOException

Get all the Stations within a bounding box.

Parameters:

boundingBox - spatial subset

Returns:

List of Station

Throws:

IOException - on i/o error

getStations

List<Station> getStations(List<String> stnNames)

Translate list of station names to list of Stations. Skip any not found

Parameters:

stnNames - list of stnNames

Returns:

corresponding list of Stations

getStation

Station getStation(String name)

Find a Station by name.

Parameters:

name - name/id of the station

Returns:

Station or null if not found

getBoundingBox

LatLonRect getBoundingBox()

Get the bounding box including all the stations.

Returns:

bounding box as a LatLonRect