opengeospatial / opengeospatial/CoverageJSON

Question on encoding categorical ranges

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Supposing a categorical parameter {....,"categoryEncoding": { "http://example.com/land_cover/categories/grass": 1, "http://example.com/land_cover/categories/forest": [2,3] }. Does the categoryEncoding value represent a range, i.e. 3>=x>=2 or fixed values?
I'm asking because of the complexity of encoding values sampled from an image

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Start with the categoryEncoding example in issue #206 and read the relevant CoverageJSON specification text. Determine whether an array such as [2,3] denotes fixed values or a range, then document the agreed interpretation and any impact on image-sampled categorical values.

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json
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data
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