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<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Module: </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> matfile5 </p></td>
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<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Module Maintainer: </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> <a class="confluence-link confluence-userlink" data-username="dany111" href="/display/~dany111" data-linked-resource-id="50192" data-linked-resource-type="userinfo" username="dany111" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Daniele Romagnoli" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Daniele Romagnoli</a> </p></td>
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<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Status: </p></td>
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<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Email Help: </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net </p></td>
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<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Volunteer: </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net </p></td>
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<td class="confluenceTd"><p> IP Review: </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> <a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/modules/unsupported/matfile5/src/site/apt/review.apt">review.apt</a> </p></td>
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<p>Coverage plugin to decode Matlab files which adhere to version 5 of the format specification.</p>

<h1>Module Status</h1>

<h2>Gold Star Quality Assurance Check</h2>

<p><img class="emoticon emoticon-yellow-star" data-emoticon-name="yellow-star" border="0" src="/s/en_GB/3278/15/_/images/icons/emoticons/star_yellow.png" alt="(star)" title="(star)" /> IP Check: review.apt added, all headers are in place<br />
<img class="emoticon emoticon-red-star" data-emoticon-name="red-star" border="0" src="/s/en_GB/3278/15/_/images/icons/emoticons/star_red.png" alt="(red star)" title="(red star)" /> Quality Assurance: test coverage is poor, we need to work on that and find suitable test data<br />
<img class="emoticon emoticon-yellow-star" data-emoticon-name="yellow-star" border="0" src="/s/en_GB/3278/15/_/images/icons/emoticons/star_yellow.png" alt="(star)" title="(star)" /> Stability: No planned API changes<br />
<img class="emoticon emoticon-yellow-star" data-emoticon-name="yellow-star" border="0" src="/s/en_GB/3278/15/_/images/icons/emoticons/star_yellow.png" alt="(star)" title="(star)" /> Supported: Documents available. Module maintainer does watches user list, answers email.</p>

<p>The aim of this plugin is to allow users to decode Matlab data file when encoded in version 5 of the format (the only one that is known to be open as far as it specification is concerned). We also look for a sibling world file (wld) and projection file (prj) to get access to the associated CRS and grid to world transformation.</p>

<p>Notice that the Matlab data format version 5 support many different types of datatypes, like Int32 and Double. For more information, please check the file format specification <a href="http://maxwell.me.gu.edu.au/spl/matlab-page/matfile_format.pdf" title="Matlab file format 5">here</a> .</p>

<h2>Future plans</h2>

<p>We plan to do what follows as time and funding permits:</p>
<ul>
	<li>improve decoding on uncompressed data by NOT loading everything in memory</li>
	<li>add support for Complex (as in x+ j y) numbers</li>
	<li>add support for more custom metadata formats for decoding georeferencing information</li>
	<li>add support for writing to Matlab format 5</li>
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<h1>The Image I/O-Ext project</h1>

<p>The <a href="https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/">Image I/O-Ext project</a> leverages existing native APIs to extend the set of formats that the <a href="https://jai-imageio.dev.java.net/">JAI ImageIO</a> API can read.<br />
Actual version of Image I/O-Ext is 1.0.5, but this plugin is leveragin on version 1.1 unstable.</p>

<h1>Outstanding Issues</h1>