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  <info>
    <pubdate>$LastChangedDate: 2013-10-16 12:00:00 +0100 (Wed., October 16, 2013)
    $</pubdate>
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  <refnamediv>
    <refname>CreateFloatRaster</refname>

    <refpurpose>.</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
	<title>Calling Sequence</title>

    <synopsis>handle_ras = CreateFloatRaster ( ncols , nrows , cellsize , xll , yll , NODATA_value , LL [, name] )</synopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>


  <refsection>
    <title>Arguments</title>
    <variablelist>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>ncols</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	   integer: number of columns (X-dimension) of the raster
	   </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>nrows</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
 	  integer: number of rows (Y-dimension) of the raster
    	</para>
        </listitem>
	</varlistentry>
  
	<varlistentry>
        <term>cellsize</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	float
	  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>xll</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
       flaot: X coordinate of the lower-left pixel. If LL = 0, then xll is itself the coordinate of the lower-left corner of this pixel (xllcorner) ; if LL = 1, it is the coordinate of the center of this pixel (xllcenter). 
    	</para>
	  </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>yll</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  float: Y coordinate of the lower-left pixel. If LL = 0, then yll is itself the coordinate of the lower-left corner of this pixel (yllcorner) ; if LL = 1, it is the coordinate of the center of this pixel (yllcenter). 
      	</para>
	  </listitem>
	</varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>NODATA_value</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  float
      	</para>
	  </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
        <term>LL</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  character string: 'corner' or 'center', specifying the convention for referencing the lower-left pixel (x/y/llcorner or x/y/llcenter).
      	</para>
	  </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
	  
	   <varlistentry>     
      <term>Name</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
           optional: character string
         </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
	  
      <varlistentry>
      <term>handle_ras</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	  integer: handle on the newly created raster
      	</para>
	  </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

</variablelist>
  </refsection>



  <refsection>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>Allocates a single-precision floating point raster (FloatRaster structure) with specified dimensions and georeferencing.</para>
    <para>Returns a handle on the object created.</para>

  </refsection>

  <refsection>
    <title>Examples</title>
  </refsection>

   <refsection><title>See Also</title><simplelist type='inline'>
    
      <member> 
         <link linkend='DestroyFloatRaster'>DestroyFloatRaster</link> , <link linkend='CreateRasterFromBinary'>CreateRasterFromBinary</link>
      </member>
     
   </simplelist></refsection>

  <refsection>
    <title>Authors</title>

    <simplelist type="vert">
      <member>Nicolas LE MOINE</member>
    </simplelist>
  </refsection>
</refentry>
