Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in GeoRaster?

• JPEG and DEFLATE Compression and Decompression
• Third-party Wavelet Compression and Decompression
• Requirements for GeoRaster Tables and Raster Data Tables
• New Procedures for RDT Name Uniqueness
• Migration Might Require RDT Name Changes
• GeoRaster Objects in Schemas Other Than the Current Schema
• changeFormat and scale Procedures Deprecated
• Enhanced GeoRaster Tools

1 GeoRaster Overview and Concepts

• 1.1 Vector and Raster Data
• 1.2 Raster Data Sources
  • 1.2.1 Remote Sensing
  • 1.2.2 Photogrammetry
  • 1.2.3 Geographic Information Systems
  • 1.2.4 Cartography
  • 1.2.5 Digital Image Processing
  • 1.2.6 Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry
• 1.3 GeoRaster Data Model
• 1.4 GeoRaster Physical Storage
  • 1.4.1 Storage Parameters
  • 1.4.2 Raster Data Table
  • 1.4.3 Blank and Empty GeoRaster Objects
  • 1.4.4 Cross-Schema Support with GeoRaster
• 1.5 Bands, Layers, and Interleaving
• 1.6 Georeferencing
  • 1.6.1 GeoRaster Georeferencing Method
  • 1.6.2 Cell Coordinate and Model Coordinate Transformation
• 1.7 Pyramids
• 1.8 Compression and Decompression
  • 1.8.1 JPEG Compression of GeoRaster Objects
  • 1.8.2 DEFLATE Compression of GeoRaster Objects
  • 1.8.3 Decompression of GeoRaster Objects
• 1.9 GeoRaster PL/SQL Subprogram Categories
  • 1.9.1 Subprograms to Create, Load, and Export GeoRaster Data
  • 1.9.2 Subprograms to Validate and Process GeoRaster Objects
  • 1.9.3 Subprograms to Get and Set GeoRaster Metadata and Data
  • 1.9.4 Utility Subprograms
• 1.10 GeoRaster Tools: Viewer, Loader, Exporter
• 1.11 GeoRaster PL/SQL Demo Files
• 1.12 README File for Spatial and Related Features

2 GeoRaster Data Types and Related Structures

• 2.1 SDO_GEORASTER Object Type
  • 2.1.1 rasterType Attribute
  • 2.1.2 spatialExtent Attribute
  • 2.1.3 rasterDataTable Attribute
  • 2.1.4 rasterID Attribute
  • 2.1.5 metadata Attribute
• 2.2 SDO_RASTER Object Type and the Raster Data Table
  • 2.2.1 rasterID Attribute
  • 2.2.2 pyramidLevel Attribute
  • 2.2.3 bandBlockNumber Attribute
  • 2.2.4 rowBlockNumber Attribute
  • 2.2.5 columnBlockNumber Attribute
  • 2.2.6 blockMBR Attribute
  • 2.2.7 rasterBlock Attribute
• 2.3 Other GeoRaster Types
  • 2.3.1 SDO_GEOR_HISTOGRAM Object Type
  • 2.3.2 SDO_GEOR_COLORMAP Object Type
  • 2.3.3 SDO_GEOR_GRAYSCALE Object Type
  • 2.3.4 SDO_RASTERSET Collection Type
  • 2.3.5 SDO_GEOR_SRS Object Type
• 2.4 GeoRaster System Data Views (xxx_SDO_GEOR_SYSDATA)
  • 2.4.1 TABLE_NAME Column
  • 2.4.2 COLUMN_NAME Column
  • 2.4.3 METADATA_COLUMN_NAME Column
  • 2.4.4 RDT_TABLE_NAME Column
  • 2.4.5 RASTER_ID Column
  • 2.4.6 OTHER_TABLE_NAMES Column
• 2.5 GeoRaster XML Schema Table

3 GeoRaster Operations

• 3.1 Creating the GeoRaster Table, Trigger, and Raster Data Table
  • 3.1.1 GeoRaster DML Trigger
• 3.2 Creating New GeoRaster Objects
• 3.3 Adjusting Java Pool Size Before Importing GeoRaster Objects
  • 3.3.1 Using Automatic Shared Memory Management
  • 3.3.2 Using Manual Memory Management
• 3.4 Loading Raster Data
• 3.5 Validating GeoRaster Objects
• 3.6 Georeferencing GeoRaster Objects
• 3.7 Generating and Setting Spatial Extents
• 3.8 Indexing GeoRaster Data
• 3.9 Changing Raster Storage
• 3.10 Querying and Updating GeoRaster Metadata
• 3.11 Querying and Updating Cell Data
• 3.12 Processing GeoRaster Objects
• 3.13 Compressing and Decompressing GeoRaster Objects
• 3.14 Viewing GeoRaster Objects
• 3.15 Exporting GeoRaster Objects
• 3.16 Updating GeoRaster Objects Before Committing
• 3.17 Transferring GeoRaster Data Between Databases
  • 3.17.1 Checking for and Resolving Conflicts
  • 3.17.2 Performing the GeoRaster Data Transfer
• 3.18 Ensuring Raster Data Table Name Uniqueness
• 3.19 Manually Maintaining GeoRaster System Data
• 3.20 Dealing with Possible GeoRaster Data Problems

4 SDO_GEOR Package Reference

• SDO_GEOR.calcCompressionRatio
• SDO_GEOR.changeCellValue
• SDO_GEOR.changeFormat
• SDO_GEOR.changeFormatCopy
• SDO_GEOR.copy
• SDO_GEOR.createBlank
• SDO_GEOR.deletePyramid
• SDO_GEOR.exportTo
• SDO_GEOR.generatePyramid
• SDO_GEOR.generateSpatialExtent
• SDO_GEOR.georeference
• SDO_GEOR.getBandDimSize
• SDO_GEOR.getBeginDateTime
• SDO_GEOR.getBinTable
• SDO_GEOR.getBinType
• SDO_GEOR.getBlankCellValue
• SDO_GEOR.getBlockingType
• SDO_GEOR.getBlockSize
• SDO_GEOR.getCellCoordinate
• SDO_GEOR.getCellDepth
• SDO_GEOR.getCellValue
• SDO_GEOR.getColorMap
• SDO_GEOR.getColorMapTable
• SDO_GEOR.getCompressionType
• SDO_GEOR.getDefaultBlue
• SDO_GEOR.getDefaultColorLayer
• SDO_GEOR.getDefaultGreen
• SDO_GEOR.getDefaultRed
• SDO_GEOR.getEndDateTime
• SDO_GEOR.getGrayScale
• SDO_GEOR.getGrayScaleTable
• SDO_GEOR.getHistogram
• SDO_GEOR.getHistogramTable
• SDO_GEOR.getID
• SDO_GEOR.getInterleavingType
• SDO_GEOR.getLayerDimension
• SDO_GEOR.getLayerID
• SDO_GEOR.getLayerOrdinate
• SDO_GEOR.getModelCoordinate
• SDO_GEOR.getModelSRID
• SDO_GEOR.getNODATA
• SDO_GEOR.getPyramidMaxLevel
• SDO_GEOR.getPyramidType
• SDO_GEOR.getRasterBlocks
• SDO_GEOR.getRasterData
• SDO_GEOR.getRasterSubset
• SDO_GEOR.getScaling
• SDO_GEOR.getSpatialDimNumber
• SDO_GEOR.getSpatialDimSizes
• SDO_GEOR.getSpatialResolutions
• SDO_GEOR.getSpectralResolution
• SDO_GEOR.getSpectralUnit
• SDO_GEOR.getSRS
• SDO_GEOR.getStatistics
• SDO_GEOR.getTotalLayerNumber
• SDO_GEOR.getULTCoordinate
• SDO_GEOR.getVAT
• SDO_GEOR.getVersion
• SDO_GEOR.hasGrayScale
• SDO_GEOR.hasPseudoColor
• SDO_GEOR.importFrom
• SDO_GEOR.init
• SDO_GEOR.isBlank
• SDO_GEOR.isOrthoRectified
• SDO_GEOR.isRectified
• SDO_GEOR.isSpatialReferenced
• SDO_GEOR.mosaic
• SDO_GEOR.scale
• SDO_GEOR.scaleCopy
• SDO_GEOR.schemaValidate
• SDO_GEOR.setBeginDateTime
• SDO_GEOR.setBinTable
• SDO_GEOR.setBlankCellValue
• SDO_GEOR.setColorMap
• SDO_GEOR.setColorMapTable
• SDO_GEOR.setDefaultBlue
• SDO_GEOR.setDefaultColorLayer
• SDO_GEOR.setDefaultGreen
• SDO_GEOR.setDefaultRed
• SDO_GEOR.setEndDateTime
• SDO_GEOR.setGrayScale
• SDO_GEOR.setGrayScaleTable
• SDO_GEOR.setHistogramTable
• SDO_GEOR.setID
• SDO_GEOR.setLayerID
• SDO_GEOR.setLayerOrdinate
• SDO_GEOR.setModelSRID
• SDO_GEOR.setOrthoRectified
• SDO_GEOR.setRasterType
• SDO_GEOR.setRectified
• SDO_GEOR.setScaling
• SDO_GEOR.setSpatialReferenced
• SDO_GEOR.setSpatialResolutions
• SDO_GEOR.setSpectralResolution
• SDO_GEOR.setSpectralUnit
• SDO_GEOR.setSRS
• SDO_GEOR.setStatistics
• SDO_GEOR.setULTCoordinate
• SDO_GEOR.setVAT
• SDO_GEOR.setVersion
• SDO_GEOR.subset
• SDO_GEOR.validateGeoraster

5 SDO_GEOR_UTL Package Reference

• SDO_GEOR_UTL.createDMLTrigger
• SDO_GEOR_UTL.makeRDTNamesUnique
• SDO_GEOR_UTL.renameRDT

A GeoRaster Metadata XML Schema

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