Scala-based high performance geoprocessing library GeoTrellis adds vector support in new version 0.8
Tue, 2013/03/26 – 17:11 — Anonymous
The GeoTrellis team is very excited to announce the availability of GeoTrellis 0.8 (codename “Atlantis”), which is a major new release that is a huge step forward towards our goal of a general purpose, high performance geoprocessing library and runtime designed to perform and scale for the web.
As you delve into GeoTrellis 0.8 in more depth, here are some new features you may want to explore:
- A new suite of raster operations in the focal category of map algebra:http://geotrellis.github.com/operations/raster/focal.html
- Simplified raster rendering with a built-in suite of color ramps for data cartography:http://geotrellis.github.com/overviews/rendering.html
- Zonal summary (by feature) operations, including a caching mechanism for tiled rasters for improved performance:http://geotrellis.github.com/operations/raster/zonal.html
- New vector feature framework for operations on points, lines, polygons with a suite of vector operations, as well as re-engineered rasterization operations: http://geotrellis.github.com/overviews/vector.html andhttp://geotrellis.github.com/operations/feature.html
For more information, see the Azavea Labs blog here: http://www.azavea.com/blogs/labs/2013/03/geotrellis-0-8-has-arrived/
