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image coordinate
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[data structures]
An x,y coordinate pair specifying the location of a pixel, or cell, in terms of its row and column position. The x-coordinate gives the column number (commonly starting from 0 at the left edge of the data), and the y-coordinate gives the row number (commonly starting from 0 at the top of the data).