[postgis-users] Old question resurfacing

[George Silva]

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
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>
>
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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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