In the latest version of JAVA this is how you do it:

nir.length //is the first dimension
nir[0].length //is the second dimension

A 2D array is not a rectangular grid. Or maybe better, there is no such thing as a 2D array in Java.

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String args[]) {

    int[][] test; 
    test = new int[5][];//'2D array'
    for (int i=0;i<test.length;i++)
      test[i] = new int[i];

    System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(test));

    Object[] test2; 
    test2 = new Object[5];//array of objects
    for (int i=0;i<test2.length;i++)
      test2[i] = new int[i];//array is a object too

    System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(test2));
  }
}

Outputs

[[], [0], [0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]]
[[], [0], [0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]]

The arrays test and test2 are (more or less) the same.

It's important to understand that Java doesn't really have two-dimensional arrays. It has arrays of arrays. That means, for instance, that you can have this:

int[][] array=
{
    {1},
    {1, 2, 3},
    {1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
    {1, 2}
};

So there is no one upper bound of the second level. Java arrays are inherently jagged, each of the second level in the above has its own length.

So to loop them correctly, you have to check for each of the second-level arrays:

int x, y;
int[] second;

for (x = 0; x < array.length; ++x) {
    second = array[x];
    for (y = 0; y < second.length; ++y) {
         // ....
    }
}

Full example: Live Copy

public class ArrayExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[][] array=
        {
            {1},
            {1, 2, 3},
            {1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
            {1, 2}
        };
        int x, y;
        int[] second;

        for (x = 0; x < array.length; ++x) {
          second = array[x];
          for (y = 0; y < second.length; ++y) {
              System.out.println(x + "," + y + ": " + second[y]);
          }
          System.out.println();
        }
    }
}

Output:

0,0: 1

1,0: 1
1,1: 2
1,2: 3

2,0: 1
2,1: 2
2,2: 3
2,3: 4
2,4: 5

3,0: 1
3,1: 2

Or if you don't need the indexes, just the values, you can use the enhanced for loop: Live Example

public class ArrayExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[][] array=
        {
            {1},
            {1, 2, 3},
            {1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
            {1, 2}
        };

        for (int[] second : array) {
          for (int entry : second) {
              System.out.println(entry);
          }
          System.out.println();
        }
    }
}

Output:

1

1
2
3

1
2
3
4
5

1
2