= '''PostGIS WKT Raster Beta 03 (and up) Working Specifications''' =
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'''Quick Links'''
* [wiki:WKTRaster WKT Raster Home Page]
* [wiki:WKTRaster/PlanningAndFunding Planning & Funding]
* [wiki:WKTRaster/SpecificationWorking01 Working Specifications for Beta 0.1.6]
* [wiki:WKTRaster/SpecificationWorking02 Working Specifications for Beta 0.2.4]
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== '''Objective B03a - Being able to set all the properties of a raster.''' ==
'''ST_SetSRID(raster|geometry, integer)'''
Set the spatial reference on the specified raster. This corresponds with the ST_SetSRID method in regular PostGIS.
'''ST_SetPixelType(raster, band, string)'''
Set the pixel type (how many bits per pixel (BPP)) on the specified raster.
'''Open Question:'''
Why is this method different from ST_SetHeight/ST_SetWidth (which are not in the spec)?
'''ST_SetPixelSize(raster)'''
Set the pixel size (cell size) on the specified raster.
'''ST_SetNoDataValue(raster, band, value)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_SetGeoReference(raster, string)'''
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== '''Objective B03b - Being able to reproject a raster.''' ==
'''ST_Transform(raster|geometry, SRID) -> same type as input'''
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== '''Objective B03c - Being able to do some base raster operations.''' ==
'''ST_Area(raster|geometry) -> double'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Count(raster, value) -> integer'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Resample(raster, method, originx, originy, pixelsizex, pixelsizey) -> raster'''
Variant 1: ST_Resample(raster, method, raster) -> raster
Recompute a raster in order to change its pixel size and/or the position of its upper left corner.
The second parameter is the resampling method performed when computing new pixel values:
1) 'NEAREST NEIGHBOR'[[BR]]
2) 'LINEAR'[[BR]]
3) 'BICUBIC'
The 3rd or 3rd-6th parameters define the pixel size of the resampling operation. For the 3rd parameter variant, the pixel size is taken from the pixel size of the raster parameter. For the 3rd-6th parameter variant, the pixel origin and dimensions are explicitly defined.
'''ST_SelectByValue(raster|geometry, ‘expression’) -> same type as first argument'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Reclass(raster|geometry,string) -> same type as first argument'''[[BR]]
'''ST_MapAlgebra(raster|geometry, [raster|geometry,…] ‘mathematical expression’, ‘raster’ |’geometry’) -> raster/geometry'''
Variant 1: ST_MapAlgebra(raster|geometry, [raster|geometry,…] ‘mathematical expression’, ‘raster’ |’geometry’, originx, originy, pixelsizex, pixelsizey) -> raster/geometry
Variant 2: ST_MapAlgebra(raster|geometry, [raster|geometry,…] 'mathematical expression', 'raster' |'geometry', integer) ->raster/geometry
Variant 3: ST_MapAlgebra(raster|geometry, [raster|geometry,…] 'mathematical expression', 'raster' |'geometry', raster) ->raster/geometry
ST_MapAlgebra performs the specified mathematical expression on the input rasters, returning a raster or geometry. Both rasters must have the same SRID. If both rasters do not have the same SRID, ST_MapAlgebra will return an error:
ERROR: Operation on two geometries with different SRIDs
The first raster passed to ST_MapAlgebra is the 'master' raster, unless either:
1 additional parameter specifies the index (in the parameter list) of the 'master' raster.[[BR]]
1 additional parameter specifies a raster whose origin and cell size should be used to compute the output raster.[[BR]]
4 additional parameters are passed specifying the origin, cell size, and raster rotation.
This function implicitly calls ST_Intersects(raster|geometry, [raster|geometry,…]) to detect if the rasters are overlapping before performing any computation. Additionally, the resulting raster will have the same extent as the result of ST_Intersection(raster, integer, geometry).
One of the implications of the ST_Intersects inclusion is that:
SELECT ST_MapAlgebra(rast1, rast2, mathExpr) FROM mytable WHERE ST_Intersects(rast1, rast2)
will be faster than:
SELECT ST_MapAlgebra(rast1, rast2, mathExpr) FROM mytable
'''Open Question:''' Should ST_MapAlgebra resample rasters internally, or produce a raster that can be processed by ST_Resample? If so, variant 1 and variant 3 can be removed, and all ST_MapAlgebra results can be processed through ST_Resample, like:
ST_Resample(ST_MapAlgebra(raster, [raster,…] 'mathematical expression', integer), originx, originy, pixelsizex, pixelsizey)[[BR]]
ST_Resample(ST_MapAlgebra(raster, [raster,…] 'mathematical expression', integer), rastergrid)
'''ST_Clip(raster|geometry,geometry) -> same type as first argument'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Flip(raster|geometry, ’vertical’|’horizontal’) -> same type as first argument'''
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== '''Objective B03d - Being able to quickly get raster statistics.''' ==
'''Add cached basic raster statistic to the base raster WKB format.
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== '''Objective B03e - Being able to refer to band by textual name.''' ==
'''Add 8 digit string to each band in the base raster WKB format.[[BR]]
'''Adjust gdal2wktraster.py to be able to give names to each band when importing.[[BR]]
'''Adjust/overlaod every function to be able to refer to raster band by name.
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== '''PostGIS WKT Raster Beta 0.4''' ==
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== '''Objective B04a - Being able to convert a raster to standards formats.''' ==
'''ST_AsKML(raster|geometry) -> string'''[[BR]]
'''ST_AsSVG(raster|geometry) -> string'''
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== '''Objective B04b - Being able to control the validity of a raster.''' ==
'''ST_IsEmpty(raster|geometry) -> boolean'''[[BR]]
'''ST_mem_size(raster|geometry) -> integer'''[[BR]]
'''ST_isvalid(raster|geometry) -> boolean'''
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== '''Objective B04c - Being able to use other major topological operators''' ==
'''ST_Within(raster|geometry A, raster|geometry B)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Contains(raster|geometry A, raster|geometry B)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Overlaps(raster|geometry, raster|geometry)'''
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== '''PostGIS WKT Raster Beta 0.5''' ==
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== '''Objective B05a - Being able to derive a raster layer from vector layer.''' ==
'''ST_Interpolate(points, pixelsize, method) -> raster'''
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== '''Objective B05b - Being able to do on rasters most operations available on geometries''' ==
'''ST_Centroid(raster|geometry) -> point geometry'''[[BR]]
'''ST_PointOnSurface(raster|geometry) -> point geometry'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Buffer(raster|geometry, double) -> same type as first arg.'''[[BR]]
'''ST_ConvexHull(raster|geometry) -> same type as input'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Difference(raster|geometry A, raster|geometry B) -> same type as first argument'''[[BR]]
'''ST_SymDifference(raster|geometry,raster|geometry,‘raster’|’geometry’) -> raster/geometry'''
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== '''PostGIS WKT Raster Beta 0.6''' ==
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== '''Objective B06a - Being able to use all the other topological operators''' ==
'''ST_Equals(raster|geometry, raster|geometry)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Disjoint(raster|geometry, raster|geometry)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Touches(raster|geometry, raster|geometry)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Crosses(raster|geometry, raster|geometry)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Covers(raster|geometry A, raster|geometry B)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_IsCoveredBy(raster|geometry A, raster|geometry B)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Relate(raster|geometry, raster|geometry, intersectionPatternMatrix )'''
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== '''Objective B07b - Being able to edit a raster''' ==
'''ST_Value(raster, band, x, y) -> value'''[[BR]]
Return value of a single pixel. Pixel location is specified by 1-based index of Nth band of raster and X,Y coordinates.[[BR]]
The X coordinate is expected to be in range of [1, ST_Width(raster)] and Y coordinate in range of [1, ST_Height(raster))].
Return value is of type of 64-bit float-point number.[[BR]]
'''TODO''': mloskot: Should we return NUMERIC instead of FLOAT8?
'''ST_SetValue(raster, band, x, y, value)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Affine(raster|geometry,…) -> same type as input'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Translate(raster|geometry,…) -> same type as input'''[[BR]]
'''ST_Scale(raster|geometry,…) -> same type as input'''[[BR]]
'''ST_TransScale(raster|geometry,…) -> same type as input'''[[BR]]
'''ST_RotateZ,Y,Z(raster|geometry, float8) -> same type as input'''
'''Other functions'''
'''ST_AsBinary(raster, compression)'''[[BR]]
'''ST_RasterFromWKB(raster, [])'''[[BR]]
'''ST_RasterFromText(string, [])'''[[BR]]
'''ST_AsText(raster)'''
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