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package org.opengis.referencing.cs;

import static org.opengis.annotation.Specification.*;

import org.opengis.annotation.UML;

/**
 * A three-dimensional coordinate system with one distance measured from the origin and two angular
 * coordinates. Not to be confused with an {@linkplain EllipsoidalCS ellipsoidal coordinate system}
 * based on an ellipsoid "degenerated" into a sphere. A {@code SphericalCS} shall have three
 * {@linkplain #getAxis axis associations}.
 *
 * 
 * 
 * Used with CRS type(s)

 *   {@link org.opengis.referencing.crs.GeocentricCRS  Geocentric},
 *   {@link org.opengis.referencing.crs.EngineeringCRS Engineering}
 * 
 *
 * @version Abstract
 *     specification 2.0
 * @author Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)
 * @since GeoAPI 1.0
 */
@UML(identifier = "CS_SphericalCS", specification = ISO_19111)
public interface SphericalCS extends CoordinateSystem {}