Table 6.205 — DRM_Property_Value

Property

Description

Class

  • <DRM Property Value>

Superclass

Subclass

  • None.

Definition

An instance of this DRM class specifies a property of the attributed DRM object and its value.

The value field specifies the value of the given property.

Clarifications

None.

Class diagram

Figure 6.240 — DRM_Property_Value

Inherited field elements

Field name

Range

Field data type

meaning

 

Property_Code

Field elements

Field name

Range

Field data type

value

 

EDCS_Attribute_Value

Associated to (one-way) (inherited)

  • None.

Associated to (one-way)

  • None.

Associated by (one-way) (inherited)

  • None.

Associated by (one-way)

  • None.

Associated with (two-way) (inherited)

  • None.

Associated with (two-way)

  • None.

Composed of (two-way) (inherited)

Composed of (two-way)

  • None.

Composed of (two-way metadata) (inherited)

  • None.

Composed of (two-way metadata)

  • None.

Component of (two-way) (inherited)

  • None.

Component of (two-way)

Constraints

Example(s)

  • The <DRM Property Value> instances of a representation of a lake might include its EAC_SURFACE_MATERIAL_TYPE.

  • Consider the man-made materials that can be found on any surface, such as cloth, carpet, asphalt, silk, metal, and natural materials, such as wood. To specify the material making up a wooden wall represented by a <DRM Polygon> instance, the data provider represents it as

    Property Value, Example 1

    Figure 6.241 — <DRM Property Value> example

  • Consider an <DRM Areal Feature> instance representing a surface covered with vegetation. To specify the type of vegetation, the data provider gave it a <DRM Property Value> component with a meaning of EAC_VEGETATION_TYPE, and the value specifying the exact type of vegetation.

  • Consider an <DRM Areal Feature> instance labeled as “Red Field”, because the surface represented has clay soil present. To describe the soil composition at some point or for some surface, <DRM Property Value> instances are used, so a <DRM Property Value> instance of the appropriate attribute is attached to the <DRM Areal Feature> instance.

  • Consider acoustic response that represent changes to characteristics of objects in response to acoustic stimuli, including responses such as the resonant frequency of a plate, response (such as echo, phase shift, absorption, diffraction), or frequency.

  • Consider electromagnetic emission, that is, the emission characteristics of a geometric object or feature, including the electromagnetic wavelengths, amplitudes, and directionality. Examples include

    1. The thermal signature of a rock at noon is described by its electromagnetic emission.
    2. The headlight of a truck.

  • Consider electromagnetic response, that is, changes to characteristics of objects in response to electromagnetic stimuli. Some examples of such properties include reflective and specular characteristics of a surface.

  • Consider hydrology, that is, an attribute describing some aspect of the flow of water at a location or on a surface. For the <DRM Polygon> instances that represent Salmon Creek, an example hydrology property represented by <DRM Property Value> instances is the average speed of currents in the stream bed.

  • <DRM Property Value> instances can provide metrics, measurements that that relate to scalar properties, such as the elevation at a particular location.