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7979Raster
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82- Rasters are a format of spatial files where data is divided evenly into
83- individual pixels. For the FLINT the raster files must be able to be
82+ Rasters are a format of spatial files, and are composed of square pixels
83+ of equal size. Each pixel is assigned a value. Some raster file formats
84+ are JPEG, JPG, TIFF etc. GeoTIFFs, commonly used in GIS,
85+ are TIFF files that contain spatial reference information.
86+ To represent continuous features like elevation, temperature etc, rasters are preferred.
87+ For the FLINT the raster files must be able to be
8488queried through two means – through specific coordinates as well as
8589through an index.
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103107Vector
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106- Vectors are also a format of spatial files for GIS, however, unlike
107- rasters, the information relates to points, lines or polygons, rather
108- than pixels. For the FLINT, as a minimum, vector files must…..[TBC]
109+ Vectors are another format of spatial files for GIS. They are composed of
110+ points, lines and polygons which are generated by a set of commands or
111+ mathematical statements. The Shapefile format is a popular geospatial vector data format.
112+ To represent discrete features like a river, road, building etc,
113+ vectors are preferred.
114+ For the FLINT, as a minimum, vector files must…..[TBC]
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110116SQL Database (Relational) Structured Query Language (SQL) database is a
111117relational database, meaning that the data is in tabular format, where
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