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Raster Reference

raster is a PostGIS type for storing and analyzing raster data.

For loading rasters from raster files please refer to Loading and Creating Rasters

Some examples in this reference use a raster table of dummy data, created with the following code:

CREATE TABLE dummy_rast(rid integer, rast raster);
INSERT INTO dummy_rast(rid, rast)
VALUES (1,
('01' -- little endian (uint8 ndr)
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'0000' -- version (uint16 0)
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'0000' -- nBands (uint16 0)
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'0000000000000040' -- scaleX (float64 2)
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'0000000000000840' -- scaleY (float64 3)
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'000000000000E03F' -- ipX (float64 0.5)
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'000000000000E03F' -- ipY (float64 0.5)
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'0000000000000000' -- skewX (float64 0)
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'0000000000000000' -- skewY (float64 0)
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'00000000' -- SRID (int32 0)
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'0A00' -- width (uint16 10)
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'1400' -- height (uint16 20)
)::raster
),
-- Raster: 5 x 5 pixels, 3 bands, PT_8BUI pixel type, NODATA = 0
(2,  ('01000003009A9999999999A93F9A9999999999A9BF000000E02B274A' ||
'41000000007719564100000000000000000000000000000000FFFFFFFF050005000400FDFEFDFEFEFDFEFEFDF9FAFEF' ||
'EFCF9FBFDFEFEFDFCFAFEFEFE04004E627AADD16076B4F9FE6370A9F5FE59637AB0E54F58617087040046566487A1506CA2E3FA5A6CAFFBFE4D566DA4CB3E454C5665')::raster);

The functions below are ones which a user of PostGIS Raster is likely to need. There are other raster support functions which are not of interest to a general user.