Return the distinct QUADBIN cells at a zoom level covered by a trajectory

trajectory_quadbins(tgeompoint,integer) → bigint[]

Returns the set of unique QUADBIN cells (deduplicated) whose Web-Mercator tile envelopes contain at least one instant of traj. The result is suitable as a WHERE-clause join key against a Raquet table. zoom must be in [0, 15].

-- Three instants spanning three tiles at zoom 3
SELECT trajectory_quadbins(
  tgeompointFromText('SRID=4326;{Point(-60 45)@2024-01-01,
                                  Point(0 45)@2024-01-02,
                                  Point(60 45)@2024-01-03}'), 3);
-- {5202501994543054848,5203346419473186816,5203416788217364480}

-- Count of Raquet tiles a ship trajectory overlaps at zoom 8
SELECT array_length(trajectory_quadbins(trip4326, 8), 1) AS tile_count
FROM trips
ORDER BY tile_count DESC;

Sample a Raquet raster chip along a trajectory using a QUADBIN cell for georeferencing

raster_tile_value_quadbin(bytea,integer,integer,bigint,text,float8,boolean,tgeompoint) → tfloat

Evaluates a row-major single-band pixel array at each instant of traj (SRID 4326). The tile georeferencing (bounding box, pixel-to-coordinate mapping) is derived from quadbin alone via the Web-Mercator slippy-tile transform. The pixtype argument must be one of UINT8, INT16, INT32, FLOAT32, or FLOAT64. When has_nodata is true, instants whose pixel equals nodata are silently dropped. Returns NULL when no instant survives.

-- Sample elevation tiles from a Raquet Parquet table
-- for all ship trajectories
SELECT t.tripid,
       raster_tile_value_quadbin(
           r.band_data, r.width, r.height, r.quadbin,
           'FLOAT32', r.nodata, true, t.trip4326)
FROM trips t
JOIN elevation_raquet r
  ON r.quadbin = ANY(trajectory_quadbins(t.trip4326, 8));

-- Average sea-surface temperature per trajectory
SELECT t.tripid,
       avgValue(raster_tile_value_quadbin(
           r.band_data, 256, 256, r.quadbin,
           'INT16', -9999, true, t.trip4326)) AS mean_sst
FROM trips t
JOIN sst_raquet r
  ON r.quadbin = ANY(trajectory_quadbins(t.trip4326, 6));

Construct a Raquet raster tile from its pixel bytes, dimensions, QUADBIN cell and pixel type

raquet(bytea,integer,integer,bigint,text,float8) → raquet

Packages a row-major single-band pixels array of width × height pixels of type pixtype (one of UINT8, INT16, INT32, FLOAT32, or FLOAT64), georeferenced by the quadbin cell, into a single self-describing raquet value. The nodata argument is optional; when omitted (NULL) the tile carries no nodata sentinel. An error is raised when the pixels array is smaller than width × height × the pixel size. A raquet is a GDAL-free, variable-length value with a portable Hex-WKB text and binary representation, distinct from and coexisting with the PostGIS raster type used by raster_value.

-- Package the loose tile columns of a Raquet table into raquet values
SELECT raquet(band_data, width, height, quadbin, 'FLOAT32', nodata) AS tile
FROM elevation_raquet;

-- A 2 x 2 UINT8 tile with no nodata
SELECT raquet('\x01020304'::bytea, 2, 2, 5193776270265024512, 'UINT8');

Decode an in-memory raster file into a Raquet raster tile via GDAL

raquet_read(bytea,bigint) → raquet

Reads the bytes of rasterfile — a raster in any format GDAL supports (GeoTIFF, PNG, …) — through GDAL's /vsimem/ virtual filesystem, and packs its first band, row-major, into a single self-describing raquet value georeferenced by the quadbin cell. The band data type must be one of Byte, Int16, Int32, Float32, or Float64; the band nodata value, when set, is carried into the tile. Because the file is supplied as bytes, no server-side file access is required. GDAL performs the decode, so the raster's format driver must be permitted by PostGIS's postgis.gdal_enabled_drivers setting (which disables all drivers by default); enable it with, for example, SET postgis.gdal_enabled_drivers = 'ENABLE_ALL'. This is the ingest counterpart of the raquet constructor, which builds a tile from already-decoded pixel bytes.

When quadbin is omitted or NULL, the tile identifier is derived from the raster's georeferencing: the raster must carry an EPSG:3857 (Web-Mercator) spatial reference and an axis-aligned geotransform describing a single QUADBIN tile. A raster with no spatial reference, one that is not in EPSG:3857, or a geotransform that is rotated or not aligned to the tile grid raises an error rather than being coerced.

-- Decode a GeoTIFF stored in a bytea column into a raquet tile
SELECT raquet_read(file_bytes, quadbin) AS tile
FROM elevation_files;
-- Derive the QUADBIN cell from an EPSG:3857 GeoTIFF's georeferencing
SELECT raquet_read(file_bytes) AS tile
FROM elevation_files;

Sample a raquet raster tile along a trajectory

raster_tile_value(raquet,tgeompoint) → tfloat

Evaluates the tile at each instant of traj (SRID 4326), returning the sampled pixel values as a tfloat. This is the typed equivalent of raster_tile_value_quadbin: the dimensions, QUADBIN cell, pixel type and nodata handling are taken from the raquet value instead of from separate arguments. Returns NULL when no instant falls inside the tile or survives nodata filtering.

-- Sample pre-packaged raquet tiles along ship trajectories
SELECT t.tripid, raster_tile_value(r.tile, t.trip4326)
FROM trips t
JOIN elevation_tiles r
  ON r.quadbin = ANY(trajectory_quadbins(t.trip4326, 8));