Unit 055 - Rasters
Table of Contents
Advanced Organizer
Topics covered in this unit
Intended learning outcomes
Instructors' notes
Metadata and revision history
Body of unit
What is a raster?
Sampling for rasters
Raster layers
Storing discrete objects in rasters
Geometry and topology of rasters
Edge effects in raster models
Non-rectangular rasters
Hexagons
Rasters on curved surfaces
Compression of rasters
Run length encoding
Other ways of compressing rasters
Rasters in practice
Summary
Review and study questions
Reference materials
Evaluation
Citation