Getting and loading rasters

In this recipe, we load most of the rasters used in this chapter. These rasters are examples of satellite imagery and model-generated surfaces, two of the most common raster sources.

Getting ready

If you have not done so already, create a directory and copy the chapter's datasets; for Windows, use the following commands:

> mkdir C:\postgis_cookbook\data\chap05> cp -r /path/to/book_dataset/chap05 C:\postgis_cookbook\data\chap05

For Linux or macOS, go into the folder you wish to use and run the following commands, where /path/to/book_dataset/chap05 is the path where you originally stored the book source code:

> mkdir -p data/chap05> cd data/chap05> cp -r /path/to/book_dataset/chap05

You should also create a new schema for this chapter in the database:

> psql -d postgis_cookbook -c "CREATE SCHEMA chp05"

How to do it...

We will start with the PRISM average monthly minimum-temperature raster dataset for 2016 with coverage for the continental United States...