/*
* Geotoolkit.org - An Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
* http://www.geotoolkit.org
*
* (C) 2009-2012, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
* (C) 2009-2012, Geomatys
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
* version 2.1 of the License.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*/
/**
* Provides {@link org.geotoolkit.coverage.io.GridCoverageReader} implementations for creating
* {@link org.geotoolkit.coverage.grid.GridCoverage2D} instances from a datasource. The main
* implementation is {@link org.geotoolkit.coverage.io.ImageCoverageReader}, which read the
* sample values using an {@link javax.imageio.ImageReader} from the standard Java library.
* <p>
* Many different data formats exist. However most of this variety is not handled by this package.
* The various data formats are rather handled by different subclasses of {@code ImageReader},
* for example
* {@link org.geotoolkit.image.io.plugin.AsciiGridReader},
* {@link org.geotoolkit.image.io.plugin.NetcdfImageReader} and
* {@link org.geotoolkit.image.io.plugin.WorldFileImageReader}.
* All those different {@code ImageReader} implementations can be wrapped by the
* same {@link org.geotoolkit.coverage.io.ImageCoverageReader} implementation.
*
* @author Martin Desruisseaux (IRD, Geomatys)
* @author Johann Sorel (Geomatys)
* @version 3.20
*
* @since 3.09 (derived from 2.4)
* @module
*/
package org.geotoolkit.coverage.io;