─ a database extension for manipulating and querying

multidimensional gridded datasets

Barrodale Computing Services Ltd. (BCS)

What is Gridded Data?

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Grid Concepts – “Dimension”Some examples:

1-D Grid: e.g., a set of temperature measurements taken at various depths in a vertical line in the ocean

2-D Grid: e.g., a set of these 1-D grids at different points along an east-west line.

3-D Grid: e.g., a set of these 2-D grids at different points along a north-south line

4-D Grid: e.g., a set of these 3-D grids, each pertaining to a different day and time

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Gridded Data Application AreasModeling applications

Meteorology

Oceanography

Climate Modeling

Fluid Dynamics

Data analysis applications

Nondestructive testing

Geophysics

Medical Imaging

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Medical Imaging

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Navy use of the Grid DataBlade

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Grids and the Grid DataBlade

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For storage and manipulation of grids, where data volumes are too large to be kept in memory, or data extractions are small relative to the amount of

data stored, or the data needs some form of resampling

BCS's Grid DataBlade can efficiently handle very large multidimensional

gridded datasets speed up extraction of data products 50-fold or more rapidly generate subsampled data along parallel or

oblique axes

For more information …Website: http://www.barrodale.com

Contact: BCSInfo@barrodale.com or (250) 412-7428

More: http://www.barrodale.com/GridBladeinDepth.pdf

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