Add caveat and assumption admonitions to docs#1134
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New user guide page (caveats.rst) collecting the cross-cutting assumptions: WGS84 hardcoded in geodesic path, float32 output, NaN-as-nodata, pixel-unit proximity, dask chunk requirements, GPU memory, and dimension ordering. Admonition blocks added to existing reference pages: surface, proximity, focal, classification, hydrology, terrain_metrics, and the data_types guide.
…1133) - Proximity EUCLIDEAN returns coordinate-unit distances, not pixels - Great-circle returns metres, not kilometres - Terrain metrics output float64, not float32; drop Horn attribution - Add admonitions to multispectral, zonal, and pathfinding pages - Clarify haversine section title
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Closes #1133.
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caveats.rst) documenting cross-cutting assumptions: WGS84 hardcoded in geodesic functions, float32 output casting, NaN-as-nodata semantics, proximity distance units, dask chunk requirements, GPU memory, dimension ordering... danger::,.. warning::,.. caution::,.. tip::,.. note::) added to 9 reference pages (surface, proximity, focal, classification, hydrology, terrain_metrics, multispectral, zonal, pathfinding)... note::indata_types.rstupgraded to.. warning::with.astype()suggestion.Test plan
caveats.rstrenders correctly in Sphinx HTML build:ref:link todata_typesresolves