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 <[email protected]> > 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 < > [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 >> > > > > -- > 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 >
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