GeoServer Cookbook

Chapter 2. Working with Rasters

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Getting coverages in different formats
• Using WCS vendor parameters
• Publishing a mosaic
• Using pyramids
• Adding GDAL formats
• Adding a PostGIS raster data source

Introduction

Working with raster data is a fundamental requirement when you are requested to build a spatial data infrastructure, which is a commonly used term today to define an information system using spatial data.

You are probably already skilled at using a simple raster format such as Geotiff. Configuring raster formats on GeoServer and querying the resulting layers with the WMS protocol is a common and pretty way to use them as base maps in your application.

In this chapter, we will focus on more advanced topics ...