The Image Pyramid is a data model within Geoanalytics to hold tiled pyramidal datasets. Like the DataCube on which it is based, Pyramids can contain images at multiple times and elevations, and WMS queries support these.
The Image Pyramid is distributed as a reusable Django app. Installation is as simple as running:
$ pip install mongoengine pymongo gdal # install dependencies
$ git clone git://github.com/JeffHeard/ga_ows.git
$ cd ga_ows
$ python setup.py install
$ cd ..
$ cd ga_pyramid
$ python setup.py installAnd then adding ga_ows and ga_pyramid to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py. You will also need to add ga_pyramid.urls to your base urls.py file.
ga_pyramid requires MongoDB to work properly. MongoDB and MongoEngine should be setup via the Django settings. If you are unfamiliar with how to do this, consult mongoengine.org .
Loading a pyramid is a simple manage.py command. To load a pyramid, navigate to a directory containing a collection of georeferenced images and type:
$ python $VIRTUAL_ENV/ga/manage.py load_pyramid [options] mypyramid_name *.tifWhere options are any of:
-v VERBOSITY, --verbosity=VERBOSITY
Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output,
2=all output
--settings=SETTINGS The Python path to a settings module, e.g.
"myproject.settings.main". If this isn't provided, the
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be
used.
--pythonpath=PYTHONPATH
A directory to add to the Python path, e.g.
"/home/djangoprojects/myproject".
--traceback Print traceback on exception
--drop drop the old pyramid before loading a new one.
--levels=LEVELS the number of levels of pyramid to calculate - the
default is 7
--srs=SRS the spatial reference system that the tiles are in
(default is EPSG:900913, the Google Mercator
projection
--compress=COMPRESS JPEG | LZW | PACKBITS | DEFLATE | CCITTRLE | CCITTFAX3
| CCITTFAX4 | NONE
--format=FORMAT GTiff | PNG | JPEG
--quality=QUALITY JPEG encoding quality
--interp=INTERPOLATION
Interpolation : bilinear | near | cubic | cubicspline
| lanczos
--photometric=PHOTOMETRIC
Set to YCBCR if using JPEG TIFF compression : MINISBLA
CK/MINISWHITE/RGB/CMYK/YCBCR/CIELAB/ICCLAB/ITULAB
--data_type=DATA_TYPE
{Byte/Int16/UInt16/UInt32/Int32/Float32/Float64/CInt16
/CInt32/CFloat32/CFloat64}
--create_options=CREATE_OPTIONS
driver specific creation options for GDAL
--size=SIZE number of pixels per row/column
--time=TIME [YYYY-MM-DD-hh:mm:ss] The UTC time value for this
pyramid, if there is one
--elevation=ELEVATION
The elevation value for this pyramid if there is one
--append Append to the current pyramid (useful for adding times
or elevations
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exitBe sure when loading a pyramid that MongoDB is up and running. GDAL formats for GeoTiff, PNG, and JPEG are supported. GeoTIFF is the default format. If you use JPEG or PNG, you will have to pass your own creation options via --create_options. These options will be passed to GDAL via gdal_retile.py. The future path for this software is to make the use of gdal_retile.py optional, as it does no parallel processing at all, and we want to support parallel retiling.
Note --srs does NOT transform tiles. It is simply there as an option if your tileset doesn't have a PRJ file and is not a collection of GeoTIFFs.
Size is by default 1024. This generally need not be changed.
Once you have a loaded pyramid, you can access it via WMS with the layers parameter being set to the layer name:
http://localhost:8000/ga_pyramid/wms?service=WMS&request=GetMap&version=1.1.0&layers=mypyramid_name&bbox={x0},{y0},{x1},{y1}&format=png&srs=EPSG:900913