[[TracNav(TOC)]] [[Image(apps-collage.png, align=right)]] = Welcome to rasdaman, = = the Scalable Multi-Dimensional Array Analytics Server! = This is the website of the open-source rasdaman ("''__ras__ter __da__ta __man__ager''") project. Rasdaman extends standard relational database systems with the ability to store and retrieve multi-dimensional raster data (''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array arrays]'') of unlimited size through an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql SQL]-style query language. On such '''sensor, image, or statistics data''' appearing, e.g., in '''earth, space, and life science''' [wiki:ApplicationDomains applications] rasdaman allows to quickly set up array-intensive [wiki:Features services] which are [wiki:WhyRasdaman distinguished] by their flexibility, speed, and scalability. Rasdaman is brought to you by the guys writing the geo raster standards, including [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs OGC WCS] and [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps WCPS], the OGC raster query language. The petascope component of rasdaman provides service interfaces based on the [http://www.opengeospatial.org OGC] [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs WCS], [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps WCPS], [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcps WCS-T], and [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps/ WPS]. For several of these, rasdaman will be reference implementation. Since April 2011, rasdaman is available on the [http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html OSGeo Live DVD]. Rasdaman embeds itself smoothly into [http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL]; further, a [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL] rasdaman driver is available, and likewise a [http://mapserver.org/ MapServer] integration (beta). A [http://postgis.refractions.net/ PostGIS] query language integration is under work, see [wiki:Planning our planning]. [http://www.earthlook.org EarthLook] is a demonstration site showcasing rasdaman in a variety of 1-D to 4-D geo use cases. == News == * July 01, 2012 -- rasdaman listed on [http://www.ohloh.net ohloh] * June, 2012 -- rasdaman is candidate reference implementation for WCS Core, being the first implementation to pass all conformance tests * April 15, 2012 -- rasdaman 8.3.1 passes the OGC WCS 2.0 Core conformance test * January 30, 2012 -- rasdaman version 8.3.0 has been released, incorporating many fixes and enhancements * November 22, 2011 -- rasdaman has now been accepted into OSGeo Incubation; many thanks to our mentor, Bruce Bannermann (Australian Bureau of Meteorology), for his wise guidance and support! * November 16, 2011 -- rasdaman is presented to the GEOSS Community during the [http://www.earthobservations.org/geo8.shtml GEO VIII Annual Meeting] in Istanbul. * November, 2011 -- Stephan Meissl, [http://www.eox.com EOX GmbH] Austria, is new committer. He has been contributing substantially in particular wrt. [http://mapserver.org MapServer], [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL], and rasdaman VM issues. * September, 2011 -- the [http://www.earthserver.eu EarthServer] project has started where six 100+ TB earth science databases will be built by BGS, EOX, Jacobs University, NASA, PML, and MEEO using rasdaman, enabling distributed querying. * [wiki:News more news...] == Download, Installation, Documentation == Go to the [wiki:Download Download page] for instructions. The installation steps are described on the [wiki:Install Install page]. There is ample [wiki:Documentation documentation], including query and programming examples. == Support == The [http://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis Large-Scale Scientific Information Services research group] at [http://www.jacobs-university.de Jacobs University Bremen] is the core development team. Feel free to contact us! A dedicated research spin-off company, [http://www.rasdaman.com rasdaman GmbH], provides software enhancements, expert consultancy, participation in projects, and joint ventures on a commercial basis to foster widespread use of rasdaman. == Science == Interested in the scientific background? There is a [http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de/~lsis/publications.php host of publications] available. == PS: Greetings to all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement rastafarians]! ''wha'ppen, man?'' ==