[postgis-users] Old question resurfacing

[Bborie Park]

You could consider using pointcloud

https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud

-bborie
On Dec 10, 2013 9:15 AM, "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
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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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