Geospatial Systems & Apache SIS Integration
Geoscientific datasets are projected on various spheroids, datums, and cartographic projections depending on their geographic domain:
- WGS 84 (EPSG:4326): Standard geographic latitude/longitude coordinates on the WGS 84 ellipsoid.
- Web Mercator (EPSG:3857 / EPSG:900913): Cylindrical projection standard for online mapping.
- Lambert Conformal Conic: Conic conformal projection widely used in regional meteorological forecasting (e.g. AROME, WRF).
- Polar Stereographic: Azimuthal projection suited for polar ocean and sea-ice monitoring.
Apache SIS 1.4 in Capella Datascience
The org.polarsys.capella.datascience.sis plugin integrates the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) library to provide:
- Geodetic Transformations: Exact coordinate transformations between EPSG codes using mathematical transform pipelines.
- Bounding Box & Envelopes: Calculation of geographic extents and intersections.
- Raster Grid Coverage: Reprojecting regular and irregular curvilinear grids into target display projections.