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Spatial (abstract)

This abstract schema defines metadata and fields available to all neurarrow types containing spatial data.

Parent schemas

This schema inherits all fields and metadata from the following schemas:

Schema metadata

These metadata keys are defined in addition to those defined by any parent schemas.

Required schema metadata

These metadata MUST exist in the schema’s metadata.

unit

  • encoding: UTF-8 string

Empty for arbitrary units (e.g. voxels with unknown resolution), or the full name of a spatial unit according to UDUNITS-2 as below:

yoctometer, zeptometer, attometer, femtometer, picometer, nanometer, angstrom, micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, inch, decimeter, foot, yard, meter, dekameter, hectometer, kilometer, mile, megameter, gigameter, terameter, petameter, parsec, exameter, zettameter, yottameter

Optional schema metadata

These metadata MAY exist in the schema’s metadata.

space

  • encoding: UTF-8 string

Unique identifier for the space in which the data exists.

Fields

These fields are defined in addition to those defined by any parent classes.

Required fields

These fields MUST exist in the file.

Optional fields

These fields MAY exist in the file.

Derived fields

These fields MAY exist in the file, but MUST be calculable from other fields, and MAY be invalidated if the source fields are updated.