[postgis-users] WKTRaster : gdal2wktraster.py cannot read AIG/Arc/Info Binary Grid

Peter Baumann p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
Wed Jul 21 02:00:46 PDT 2010


Sebastian,

it's a XEON. Your question comes at the right time, we are in the 
process of compiling performance data this summer. I will soon post 
detail info here.

Loading 100k x 150k pixels is no problem. You load piecemeal, and the 
system will align with its internal tiling + maintain the image pyramid.

10 years back we have loaded the whole ortho image mosaic of Bavaria 
into the database (server was a desktop PC of about 1000 EUR), that was 
600 GB compressed (losslessly). At that time, import of an 230 MB image 
took about 2min (array placement, re-tiling of input, index maintenance, 
compression, and this for all pyramid levels). Read access, OTOH, was 
about 150ms. A few years later the Thuringia Mapping Agency, again with 
a desktop PC as a server, verified that access times are stable under a 
load of about 15 concurrent users challenging the system with WMS type 
interactive browsing.

For another mapping agency we have set up a database containing ortho 
image, 30+ thematic raster layers, DEM. Access was via WMS, the rasdaman 
system delivered a single image for display (Javascript was not what it 
is today...). This included on-the-fly classification of the DEM and 
styling the thematic layers.

So we have already done complete raster servers for several German States.

BTW, standards: We have established the OGC Web Coverage Processing 
Service (WCPS) standard which lifts the rasdaman concept of a raster 
querfy language to an OGC standard. Being editor of currently 9 geo 
raster service specs in OGC we also pursue reference implementations on 
the basis of rasdaman. See www.earthlook.org for demos.

-Peter

PS: Should data really exceed disk capacity (hard to believe today) then 
we have a PhD thesis work which has implemented transparent tape 
cabinetaccess.



On 07/21/2010 09:37 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Peter Baumann 
> <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de 
> <mailto:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/20/2010 05:47 PM, Pierre Racine wrote:
>>
>>     Since we have this bug with big rasters,
>>
>
>     proven, any-size, ... ;-)
>
>
> what do you mean ? were you able to load a raster of 100kx150k ?
>
>
>     Who is proven? Well, running a dozen-TB seamless mosaic on
>     PostgreSQL for many years, having online-demos available since
>     years, etc... you decide, in comparison.
>
>
> Peter, how big is your cluster to support dozen of TB ? and how fast 
> are the queries ? (for example a simple lookup)
>
>     -Peter
>
>
>
>>     I would suggest you split your raster with something like GDAL
>>     gdal_retile.py and then import your tiles into a single WKT
>>     Raster table following the instruction provided in our tutorial.
>>     Each tile will be stored in a column cell of type RASTER similar
>>     to the PostGIS GEOMETRY type.
>>
>>     As I said previously you can then query the raster in SQL like this:
>>
>>     SELECT ST_Value(rast, ST_Geomfromtext('Point(-78.1 58.1)', 4326))
>>
>>     FROM srtm_tiled_100x100
>>
>>     WHERE ST_Intersects(rast::geometry, ST_Geomfromtext('Point(-78.1
>>     58.1)', 4326)) AND whatever you want.
>>
>>     Basically WKT Raster is the first true SQL interface with which
>>     is is simple to do such things… It's proven, any-size,
>>     cloud-scalable, and open source J Maybe not that prooven. But who is?
>>
>>     There is also rasdaman but I don’t think you can use SQL. It
>>     would be nice if you could compare both… I can’t find time for
>>     this. Jorge has started comparing PostGIS WKT Raster with Oracle
>>     Georaster though.
>>
>>     Pierre
>>
>>     *From:* postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>>     <mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net>
>>     [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] *On Behalf
>>     Of *Sebastian E. Ovide
>>     *Sent:* 20 juillet 2010 10:46
>>     *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion
>>     *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] WKTRaster : gdal2wktraster.py
>>     cannot read AIG/Arc/Info Binary Grid
>>
>>     yes... with png worked... but it was a different png (a smaller
>>     one)...
>>
>>     so I've converted the ESRI into a png and tried to import it...
>>     and it didn't work neither...
>>
>>     so this is the situation:
>>     A have huge rusters (from 150kx150k).. In Oracle I would just
>>     load it (the huge raster) in a single row of a GeoRaster table
>>     and then Oracle GeoRaster would split it in small tiles and store
>>     one tile per line of another table (Raster Data Table)... then I
>>     can run a query similar to this one: SELECT
>>     getcellvalue(t.rastercolumn,x,y) from GeoRasterTable t where t.id
>>     <http://t.id>=1; and GeoRaster will query automatically the
>>     spatial indexes and the Raster Data Table and it will find the
>>     right tile etc...
>>
>>     I do not know how WKTRaster works.... If I cannot import a such
>>     big image, of course I can split it in smaller georeferenced
>>     tiles... (how?)... but.... My main question is: after that, how
>>     will the table look like ? how can I do the same query (where
>>     id=1 or where name="UK" etc...) ?
>>
>>     On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Pierre Racine
>>     <Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca
>>     <mailto:Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Wait. You first said the png was working. Now it’s not? Did you
>>     try gdal_translate with the ESRI grid? For sure I haven’t test
>>     yet with such big rasters. Is this the result of a merge or all
>>     your original raster are all this size? The point is that with
>>     WKT Raster you don’t have to merge your raster first into a
>>     gigantic raster in order to get it store in a unique table like
>>     with Oracle Spatial.
>>
>>     Pierre
>>
>>     *From:* postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>>     <mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net>
>>     [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>>     <mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net>] *On
>>     Behalf Of *Sebastian E. Ovide
>>     *Sent:* 20 juillet 2010 05:51
>>     *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion
>>     *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] WKTRaster : gdal2wktraster.py
>>     cannot read AIG/Arc/Info Binary Grid
>>
>>     Hi Pierre,
>>
>>     Does gdal2wktraster.py have any limitation on the maximum number
>>     of columnsxrows ?
>>
>>     in my case, my raster is  107759 x 168633...
>>
>>     gdal works well:
>>
>>     sebas at SeansPC:~/rasters$ gdal_translate -of PNG raster/ test.png
>>     Input file size is 107759, 168633
>>     0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.
>>
>>
>>     sebas at SeansPC:~/rasters$ python gdal2wktraster.py -r raster/ -t
>>     sebastable -o ok.sql
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:695: DeprecationWarning: 'H' format requires 0
>>     <= number <= 65535
>>       hexwkb += wkblify('H', xsize)
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:696: DeprecationWarning: 'H' format requires 0
>>     <= number <= 65535
>>       hexwkb += wkblify('H', ysize)
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:727: DeprecationWarning: integer argument
>>     expected, got float
>>       hexwkb += wkblify(pt2fmt(pixtype), nodata)
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 1013, in <module>
>>         main()
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 976, in main
>>         wkblify_raster(opts, filename, i)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 921, in wkblify_raster
>>         summary = wkblify_raster_level(options, ds,
>>     options.overview_level, band_range, infile, i)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 888, in wkblify_raster_level
>>         hexwkb += wkblify_band(options, band, level, xoff, yoff,
>>     read_block_size, block_size, infile, b)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 777, in wkblify_band
>>         target_block_size[0], target_block_size[1])
>>       File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/gdal.py", line
>>     895, in ReadAsArray
>>         buf_xsize, buf_ysize, buf_obj )
>>       File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/gdal_array.py",
>>     line 228, in BandReadAsArray
>>         ar = numpy.empty([buf_ysize,buf_xsize], dtype = typecode)
>>     MemoryError
>>
>>
>>     sebas at SeansPC:~/rasters$ python gdal2wktraster.py -r test.png  -t
>>     sebastable -o ok.sql
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:695: DeprecationWarning: 'H' format requires 0
>>     <= number <= 65535
>>       hexwkb += wkblify('H', xsize)
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:696: DeprecationWarning: 'H' format requires 0
>>     <= number <= 65535
>>       hexwkb += wkblify('H', ysize)
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:727: DeprecationWarning: integer argument
>>     expected, got float
>>       hexwkb += wkblify(pt2fmt(pixtype), nodata)
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 1013, in <module>
>>         main()
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 976, in main
>>         wkblify_raster(opts, filename, i)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 921, in wkblify_raster
>>         summary = wkblify_raster_level(options, ds,
>>     options.overview_level, band_range, infile, i)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 888, in wkblify_raster_level
>>         hexwkb += wkblify_band(options, band, level, xoff, yoff,
>>     read_block_size, block_size, infile, b)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 777, in wkblify_band
>>         target_block_size[0], target_block_size[1])
>>       File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/gdal.py", line
>>     895, in ReadAsArray
>>         buf_xsize, buf_ysize, buf_obj )
>>       File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo/gdal_array.py",
>>     line 228, in BandReadAsArray
>>         ar = numpy.empty([buf_ysize,buf_xsize], dtype = typecode)
>>     MemoryError
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Pierre Racine
>>     <Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca
>>     <mailto:Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Sebastian,
>>
>>     I can convert ESRI Grid file to .sql without problem using
>>     gdal2wktraster.py and the same parameters as you. I can do both
>>     integer and floating point rasters.
>>
>>     Maybe this is a GDAL problem. Try to convert it using
>>     gdal_translate (to tiff for example). This would be a better test
>>     than just gdalinfo.
>>
>>     Could you provide us with a file sample?
>>
>>     Pierre
>>
>>     *From:* postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>>     <mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net>
>>     [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>>     <mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net>] *On
>>     Behalf Of *Sebastian E. Ovide
>>     *Sent:* 19 juillet 2010 12:28
>>     *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion
>>     *Subject:* [postgis-users] WKTRaster : gdal2wktraster.py cannot
>>     read AIG/Arc/Info Binary Grid
>>
>>     Hi All,
>>
>>     trying to create a SQL with gdal2wktraster.py. It works on PNG
>>     but it doesn't on AIG files...
>>
>>     Note: As Gdal works fine.
>>
>>     C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>gdalinfo c:\tmp\raster
>>     Driver: AIG/Arc/Info Binary Grid
>>     Files: c:\tmp\raster
>>            c:\tmp\raster\dblbnd.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\hdr.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\metadata.xml
>>            c:\tmp\raster\prj.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\sta.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\vat.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\w001000.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\w001000x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\w001001.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\w001001x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001001.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001001x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001002.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001002x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001003.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001003x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001004.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001004x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001005.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001005x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001006.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001006x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001007.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001007x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001008.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001008x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001009.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001009x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001010.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001010x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001011.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001011x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001012.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001012x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001013.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001013x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001014.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001014x.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001015.adf
>>            c:\tmp\raster\z001015x.adf
>>     Size is 107759, 168633
>>     Coordinate System is:
>>     PROJCS["unnamed",
>>         GEOGCS["Unknown datum based upon the Airy 1830 ellipsoid",
>>             DATUM["Not_specified_based_on_Airy_1830_ellipsoid",
>>                 SPHEROID["Airy 1830",6377563.396,299.3249646,
>>                     AUTHORITY["EPSG","7001"]],
>>                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","6001"]],
>>             PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
>>                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
>>             UNIT["degree",0.01745329251994328,
>>                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
>>             AUTHORITY["EPSG","4001"]],
>>         PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
>>         PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",49],
>>         PARAMETER["central_meridian",-2],
>>         PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996012717],
>>         PARAMETER["false_easting",400000],
>>         PARAMETER["false_northing",-100000],
>>         UNIT["METERS",1]]
>>     Origin = (128110.000000000000000,813270.000000000000000)
>>     Pixel Size = (5.000000000000000,-5.000000000000000)
>>     Corner Coordinates:
>>     Upper Left  (  128110.000,  813270.000) (  6d29'37.32"W, 57d
>>     7'47.53"N)
>>     Lower Left  (  128110.000,  -29895.000) (  5d45'40.00"W,
>>     49d34'10.24"N)
>>     Upper Right (  666905.000,  813270.000) (  2d24'41.72"E, 57d
>>     7'58.04"N)
>>     Lower Right (  666905.000,  -29895.000) (  1d41'32.29"E,
>>     49d34'18.23"N)
>>     Center      (  397507.500,  391687.500) (  2d 2'15.04"W,
>>     53d25'18.19"N)
>>     Band 1 Block=256x4 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Undefined
>>       Min=1.000 Max=4.000
>>       NoData Value=255
>>
>>
>>     C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin>python gdal2wktraster.py -r
>>     c:\tmp\raster -t sebastable -o c:\tmp\sebas.sql
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:644: DeprecationWarning: 'H' format requires 0
>>     <= number <= 65535
>>       hexstr = binascii.hexlify(struct.pack(fmt_little, data)).upper()
>>     gdal2wktraster.py:644: DeprecationWarning: integer argument
>>     expected, got float
>>       hexstr = binascii.hexlify(struct.pack(fmt_little, data)).upper()
>>     ERROR 2: Multiplication overflow : 107759 * 168633 * 1
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 1013, in <module>
>>         main()
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 976, in main
>>         wkblify_raster(opts, filename, i)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 921, in wkblify_raster
>>         summary = wkblify_raster_level(options, ds,
>>     options.overview_level, band_range, infile, i)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 888, in wkblify_raster_level
>>         hexwkb += wkblify_band(options, band, level, xoff, yoff,
>>     read_block_size, block_size, infile, b)
>>       File "gdal2wktraster.py", line 777, in wkblify_band
>>         target_block_size[0], target_block_size[1])
>>       File "C:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-16\pymod\osgeo\gdal.py", line 835,
>>     in ReadAsArray
>>         buf_xsize, buf_ysize, buf_obj )
>>       File "C:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-16\pymod\osgeo\gdal_array.py", line
>>     140, in BandReadAsArray
>>         ar = numpy.reshape(ar, [buf_ysize,buf_xsize])
>>       File
>>     "C:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python25\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\fromnumeric.py",
>>     line 116, in reshape
>>         return reshape(newshape, order=order)
>>     ValueError: total size of new array must be unchanged
>>
>>     Any ideas ?
>>     -- 
>>     Sebastian E. Ovide
>>
>>
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>>     Sebastian E. Ovide
>>
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>>
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>
>     -- 
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    mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
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