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Preface

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documentation

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 GeoRaster 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

1.8 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 GeoRaster 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.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.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.isBlank

SDO_GEOR.isOrthoRectified

SDO_GEOR.isRectified

SDO_GEOR.isSpatialReferenced

SDO_GEOR.mosaic

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.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

Index