[postgis-users] Postgis related research subjects

[Pierre Racine]

Hi Martin,

Sorry to come back to you so late. Did you find a subject?

I have some questions which may be the subject of a master or a doctorate... They mostly relate to the way we store raster in PostGIS raster. Some of them:

1) What should look like a toolkit making transparent overlay operations on raster and vector?

2) How can we adapt existing raster algorythms to work with a discontinuous raster coverage the kind we can store and produce using PostGIS raster?

3) How can we use PostGIS (raster and vector) to generate and manipulate fuzzy boundary objects?

4) How can we use PostGIS raster objects to better simulate continuous objects having identities in simulation packages?

I can develop further any of these subjects.

Pierre

>> my name is Martin Landa [1], I am working mostly on the GRASS
>> project. I am studying for my PhD. at the Czech Technical University
>> in Prague. One of the PhD. students of my supervisor is Pavel
>> Stehule. Pavel is known in the PostgreSQL community very well. See
>> blog of the core PostgreSQL developer Josh Berkus about Pavel [1].
>> Pavel seems that he would like to finish after some years his study.
>> He is looking for the topic.
>>
>> My supervisor asked me for a help. I got idea to write you
>> personally (sorry for bothering you). Would be interested for you to
>> get Pavel working for PostGIS (raster or vector) for a while? In this
>> case could you send me a list of topic which Pavel could work on (of
>> course it need to me topic suitable for PhD. work). Feel free to
>> resend this mail to the other core PostGIS developers and to ask them
>> for ideas.