[gdal-dev] new GDAL driver: how to proceed?

[Peter Baumann]

Chaitanya,

thanks for this prompt response! We will do as you describe. Before, 
we'd need your assistance: the rasdaman driver should be compiled in 
only if it's found, and we are not sure whether our way of doing so is 
the canonical one. Constantin will describe this soon in a separate mail.

-Peter



On 08/03/2010 07:10 AM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Please create a new ticket at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/newticket and 
> attach your code. If all goes smoothly, it will be added into the 1.8 
> branch of GDAL and released with GDAL-1.8.0
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Peter Baumann 
> <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de 
> <mailto:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>> wrote:
>
>     Dear GDAL maintainers,
>
>     we have written a GDAL driver to add the rasdaman database as
>     another "data format" that GDAL can read, and we would like to
>     contribute this to the GDAL project.
>
>     Rasdaman is a raster database middleware offering an SQL-style
>     query language on multi-dimensional arrays of unlimited size,
>     stored in a relational database. See www.rasdaman.org
>     <http://www.rasdaman.org> for the open-source code, documentation,
>     etc. Currently rasdaman is under consideration for OSGeo incubation.
>
>     In our driver implementation, GDAL connects to rasdaman by
>     defining a query template which is instantiated with the concrete
>     subsetting box upon every access. This allows to deliver 2-D
>     cutouts from n-D data sets (such as hyperspectral satellite time
>     series, multi-variable climate simulation data, ocean model data,
>     etc.). In particular, virtual imagery can be offered which is
>     derived on demand from ground truth data. Some more technical
>     details are given below [1].
>
>     The code compiles smoothly with the latest GDAL code and is
>     undergoing final tests and documentation. For a clean integration
>     with the GDAL code base we are asking for further advice. In
>     particular, our Makefile structure needs some fine tuning, we need
>     to know intended use of some parameters.
>
>     We hope that this contribution is of value to the community, any
>     comments are highly appreciated.
>
>     Thanks in advance for your assistance,
>     Peter & Constantin
>
>
>     [1] The connect string syntax follows the WKT Raster pattern and
>     goes like this:
>        rasdaman:
>            query='select a[$x_lo:$x_hi,$y_lo:$y_hi] from MyImages as a'
>            tileXSize=512 tileYSize=512
>            [host='localhost'] [port=7001] [database='RASBASE']
>            [user='rasguest'] [password='rasguest']
>
>     The rasdaman query language (rasql) string in this case only
>     performs subsetting. Upon image access by GDAL, the $ parameters
>     are substituted by the concrete bounding box computed from the
>     input tile coordinates.
>
>     However, the query provided can include any kind of processing, as
>     long as it returns something 2-D. For example, this determines the
>     average of red and near-infrared pixels from the oldest image time
>     series:
>            query='select ( a.red+a.nir ) /2 [$x_lo:$x_hi,$y_lo:$y_hi,
>     0 ] from SatStack as a'
>
>     The further key-value pair parameters in brackets are optional,
>     their defaults are listed. BTW, the default user has read-only
>     access to the database as per rasdaman convention.
>
>     As rasdaman supports concurrent access with parallel query
>     evaluation, any number of such connections can be opened.
>
>     -- 
>     Dr. Peter Baumann
>      - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
>     www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
>     <http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann>
>       mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
>     <mailto:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>
>       tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
>      - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
>     www.rasdaman.com <http://www.rasdaman.com>, mail:
>     baumann at rasdaman.com <mailto:baumann at rasdaman.com>
>       tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
>     "Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola
>     incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei
>     reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi
>     parata." (mail disclaimer, AD 10xx)
>
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>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Chaitanya kumar CH.
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-- 
Dr. Peter Baumann
  - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
    www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
    mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
    tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
  - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
    www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
    tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
"Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata." (mail disclaimer, AD 10xx)



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