[postgis-users] Old question resurfacing

[Rémi Cura]

If your radar return is well discretized in time (I'd say max 10^6
points/sec),
pointcloud could do the trick (you can have any number of attributes per
point).
Else, you would have to cut the data into pieces.

Cheers,
Rémi-C


2013/12/10 George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>

> 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
>>>> --
>>>> Gerry Creager
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>>>> That feed on their velocity;
>>>> And little whorls have lesser whorls,
>>>> And so on to viscosity.”
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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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