Research

Innovative products with high customer value arise only from tight cooperation between industry and research. This fact is being implemented thoroughly and continuously - at last, the innovative raster databasr rasdaman itself is the result of a pan-European collaboration. Here is a - incomplete - list of past and current rasdaman research projects;

	Goal of the EuroClim project (funded by the EU under grant no. IST-2000-28766) is to develop an innovative climate information and predeiction system for Europe. To this end, multidimensional environmental data have to be made available in a web-enabled database: 2D satellite images (MODIS) to determine snow and ice properties, 3D glacier simulations (x/y/t), and 4D climate simulations (x/y/z/t).
	The NeuroGenerator project (funded by the EU under grant no. LIFE QLG3-CT-1999-0067) develops a database generator for three- to five-dimensional human brain images. Raw data from PET and fMRI scanners all over Europe are homogenised into a common anatomic format and analysed through a uniform set of processing modules. Combined with cyto-architectonic reference maps and augmented with a comprehensive documentation of the experimental parameters, a model of the cerebral cortex structure is being established.
	Im Projekt ESTEDI, an initiative of European software vendors and supercomputing centres supported by the EU under grant no. IST-1999-11009, establishes a European standard for the storage and retrieval of multidimensional high-performance computing (HPC) data. It addresses a main technical obstacle, the delivery bottleneck of large HPC results to the users, by augmenting high-volume data generators with a flexible data management and extraction tool for spatio-temporal raster data. To this end, the multidimensional database system rasdaman will be enhanced with intelligent mass storage handling and optimised towards HPC, yielding a "Grid-enabling platform technology" as rasdaman has been termed by CERN.
	In the Esprit 4 Basic Research Project 20073 RasDaMan - Raster Data Management - FORWISS implemented the world's first universal multidimensional database system. Design and implementation was done under supervision of the RasDaMan inventor and principal architect, Dr. Peter Baumann.