# Interface BoundingPolygon

All Superinterfaces:
  `GeographicExtent`

All Known Implementing Classes:
  `DefaultBoundingPolygon`

@UML(identifier="EX_BoundingPolygon", specification=ISO_19115) public interface BoundingPolygon extends GeographicExtent
Boundary enclosing the dataset, expressed as the closed set of (x,y) coordinates of the polygon. The last point replicates first point.

Since:
  1.0

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `Collection<? extends Geometry>`
  `getPolygons()`
  Returns the sets of points defining the bounding polygon.

  ### Methods inherited from interface GeographicExtent

  `getInclusion`

- ## Method Details

  - ### getPolygons

    @UML(identifier="polygon", obligation=MANDATORY, specification=ISO_19115) Collection<? extends Geometry> getPolygons()
    Returns the sets of points defining the bounding polygon.
    Returns:
      The sets of points defining the bounding polygon.