[postgis-users] Old question resurfacing

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

Remi, Bborie

Thanks. I'll look now.
gerry


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Rémi Cura <remi.cura at gmail.com> wrote:

> If your radar return is well discretized in time (I'd say max 10^6
> points/sec),
> pointcloud could do the trick (you can have any number of attributes per
> point).
> Else, you would have to cut the data into pieces.
>
> Cheers,
> Rémi-C
>
>
> 2013/12/10 George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>
>
>> I'm glad this might work out for you.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the products you guys generate or store, but you
>> can even store rasters with more then one band, keeping all the data in a
>> single place, but different bands.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate <
>> gerry.creager at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Raster is always a possibility, but we lose some data therein. If I use
>>> what we refer to as "Level III" data, then it's certainly a potential. I'm
>>> sorta thinking of using Level II data which comprise
>>> azimuth/range/elevation and one of: reflectivity, radial velocity or
>>> spectrum width (standard deviation of velocity). The programmatic results
>>> of this, creating new Level III data products, are big.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion. Simply taking it to raster hadn't, honestly,
>>> occurred to me because I was overthinking some aspects of the problem.
>>>
>>> gerry
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM, George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you transform it to rasters PostGIS Raster can handle them already.
>>>>
>>>> Now, about the new datatype, I'll let the experts discuss :P.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate <
>>>> gerry.creager at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I asked this years ago, and I think Paul was less than pleased with me
>>>>> (:-), but:
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone, in the ensuing years looked at encoding radar data into a
>>>>> postGIS database? We've a little idea that might benefit one project, and
>>>>> getting the radar data into a good geospatial format would be
>>>>> beneficial.The data, of coure, would start out as radial-distance and
>>>>> intensity from the radar site, although we could preprocess it by gridding.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Gerry
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gerry Creager
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>>>>> “Big whorls have little whorls,
>>>>> That feed on their velocity;
>>>>> And little whorls have lesser whorls,
>>>>> And so on to viscosity.”
>>>>> Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)
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>>> “Big whorls have little whorls,
>>> That feed on their velocity;
>>> And little whorls have lesser whorls,
>>> And so on to viscosity.”
>>> Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)
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Gerry Creager
NSSL/CIMMS
405.325.6371
++++++++++++++++++++++
“Big whorls have little whorls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.”
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)
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