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Processing Creation Analysis 
  
  
  
       
CARIS 
Specialized Support Applications Data Structure 
  
  
  
  
Development Libraries 
  
  
  
Figure 1. CARIS Software Overview 
LAYER 5 
Fic. 2. A schematic example of a raster image in 
CARIS composed of four regions (R1-R4) and five 
layers. 
region 1 
display layer 
  
region 2 
  
region 3 
   
Fic. 3. Regions comprising a single layer are dynamically 
resampled to a uniform raster definition when displayed. 
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