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= Welcome to rasdaman! =

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.

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.

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      <dt>September, 2011</dt><dd>-- the <a href="http://www.earthserver.eu">EarthServer</a> projecct 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.</dd>
      <dt>July, 2011</dt><dd>-- rasdaman version 8.2 has been released.</dd>
      <dt>April, 2011</dt><dd>-- rasdaman has been incorporated in the <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html">OSGeo Live DVD</a>.</dd>
      <dt>September 6-9, 2010</dt><dd>-- rasdaman has been presented at the <a href=http://2010.foss4g.org>Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference</a> (FOSS4G) 2010 in Barcelona, gaining substantial attention.</dd>
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== 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 [https://www.jacobs-university.de/lsis/publications host of publications] available.


== PS: Greetings to all [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement rastafarians]! ''wha'ppen, man?'' ==