You could consider using pointcloud https://github.com/pramsey/pointcloud
-bborie On Dec 10, 2013 9:15 AM, "Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate" < [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>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 < >> [email protected]> 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 >>> 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) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> postgis-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> George R. C. Silva >> SIGMA Consultoria >> ---------------------------- >> http://www.consultoriasigma.com.br/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> > > > > -- > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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