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Welcome to rasdaman, ¶

the Scalable Multi-Dimensional Array Analytics Server! ¶

This is the website of the rasdaman ("raster data manager") open-source project. Rasdaman is a domain-neutral ​Array Database System: it extends standard relational database systems with the ability to store and retrieve multi-dimensional raster data (​arrays) of unlimited size through an ​SQL-style query language. On such sensor, image, simulation, and statistics data appearing, e.g., in earth, space, and life science applications rasdaman allows to quickly set up array-intensive services which are distinguished by their flexibility, speed, and scalability. Rasdaman embeds itself smoothly into ​PostgreSQL.

Next-Generation Geo Raster Server. Rasdaman is brought to you by the guys writing the geo raster standards, including ​OGC WCS and ​WCPS, the OGC raster query language. The [PetascopeUserGuide Petascope] component of rasdaman provides service interfaces based on the ​OGC ​WCS, ​WCPS, ​WCS-T, and ​WPS. For several of these, rasdaman will be reference implementation. Since April 2011, rasdaman is available on the ​OSGeo Live DVD (a short get started guide). A ​GDAL rasdaman driver is available, and likewise a ​MapServer integration (beta). A ​PostGIS query language integration is under work, see our planning. In comparison to PostGIS Raster, rasdaman scales and supports n-D instead of 2-D and automatizes tile management.

For the business value of rasdaman, see the ​listing on ohloh. ​EarthLook is a demonstration site showcasing rasdaman in a variety of 1-D to 4-D geo use cases.

News ¶

• February 23, 2014 — rasdaman 9.0 has been officially released, full release notes here.
• December 16, 2013 — the WCS Range Subsetting Extension, crafted by the rasdaman team, gets adopted as official OGC standard.
• December 06, 2013 — rasdaman is OGC's official Reference Implementation for WCS Core:
  
  
  
  
• April 11, 2013 — rasdaman PI Peter Baumann gives keynote lecture "Data, Metadata - Who Cares?" at ​EGU General Assembly, Vienna
• January 07, 2013 — rasdaman becomes ​GEOSS component
• more news...

Download, Installation, Documentation ¶

Go to the Download page for instructions. The installation steps are described on the Install page. There is ample documentation, including query and programming examples.

Support ¶

The ​Large-Scale Scientific Information Services research group at ​Jacobs University Bremen is the core development team. Feel free to contact us!

A dedicated research spin-off company, ​rasdaman GmbH, provides software enhancements, expert consultancy, participation in projects, and joint ventures on a commercial basis to foster widespread use of rasdaman.

See also the support page.

Science ¶

Interested in the scientific background? There is a ​host of publications available.

PS: Greetings to all ​rastafarians! wha'ppen, man? ¶