Google Summer of Code 2011 PostGIS raster ideas

1) GDAL Driver: Implement write support for the GDAL driver.

The current GDAL driver support reading of PostGIS rasters objects from a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database but does not support writing to it. The project includes proposing a driver writer design and implementing it. You will familiarize yourself with GDAL-OGR development (one of the most used open source geospatial package), geospatial imagery concepts, open source development tools and code in C.

2) Two rasters version of the ST_MapAlgebra SQL function

A one raster version of ST_MapAlgebra already exist. We now need a two raster version. This version is much more complicated to implement as it must not only takes into account nodata values but also on-the-fly reprojection of non aligned rasters and multiple possibilities for the resulting extent when the two rasters do not have the same extent. It is also possible, but complicated, to optimize the algorythm in order to fill many areas as a chunck of data instead of pixel by pixel. The project includes reviewing the proposed algorythm and implementing it. You will familiarize yourself with PostGIS development (the most used open source geospatial database), geospatial imagery concepts, open source development tools and code in C and PL/pgSQL.