diff --git a/geoapi/src/main/java/org/opengis/referencing/datum/VerticalDatumType.java b/geoapi/src/main/java/org/opengis/referencing/datum/VerticalDatumType.java index c1ab8da83..ea0700564 100644 --- a/geoapi/src/main/java/org/opengis/referencing/datum/VerticalDatumType.java +++ b/geoapi/src/main/java/org/opengis/referencing/datum/VerticalDatumType.java @@ -27,15 +27,10 @@ /** * Type of a vertical datum. - * - *
Barometric height determination is routinely used in aircraft. - * The altimeter (barometer) on board is set to the altitude of the airfield at the time of take-off, - * which corrects simultaneously for instantaneous air pressure and altitude of the airfield. - * The measured height value is commonly named "altitude".
- * - *In some land surveying applications, height differences between points are measured with barometers. - * To obtain absolute heights the measured height differences are added to the known heights of control points. - * In that case the vertical datum type is not barometric, but is the same as that of the vertical control network - * used to obtain the heights of the new points and its vertical datum type. - * The accuracy of this technique is limited, - * as it is affected strongly by the spatial and temporal variability of atmospheric pressure. - * This accuracy limitation impacts the precision of the associated vertical datum definition. - * The datum is usually the surface of constant atmospheric pressure approximately equating to mean sea level (MSL). - * The origin or anchor point is usually a point of known MSL height. - * The instruments are calibrated at this point by correcting for the instantaneous atmospheric pressure - * at sea level and the height of the point above MSL.
- * - *In meteorology, atmospheric pressure routinely takes the role as vertical coordinate in a CRS - * that is used as a spatial reference frame for meteorological parameters in the upper atmosphere. - * The origin of the datum is in that case the (hypothetical) zero atmospheric pressure and the positive - * vertical axis points down (to increasing pressure).
*/ @UML(identifier="barometric", obligation=CONDITIONAL, specification=ISO_19111) public static final VerticalDatumType BAROMETRIC = new VerticalDatumType("BAROMETRIC"); - /** - * The zero value is defined by a method not described by the other enumeration values in this class. - * In some cases, for example oil exploration and production, a geological feature, such as the top or - * bottom of a geologically identifiable and meaningful subsurface layer, is used as a vertical datum. - * Other variations to the above three vertical datum types may exist and are all included in this type. - */ - @UML(identifier="other surface", obligation=CONDITIONAL, specification=ISO_19111) - public static final VerticalDatumType OTHER_SURFACE = new VerticalDatumType("OTHER_SURFACE"); - - /** * Maps a realization method to a vertical datum type. *