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MVW PostgreSQL tables

Grace-Amondi edited this page Apr 28, 2021 · 4 revisions

MVW PostgreSQL tables

The following tables are necessary to make the MapViewer work and to display geographical data in it.

Spatial tables containing geographical background

Resource Type Description
coastlines spatial table Coastal lines at high resolution, displayed by the MapViewer at scales > 1:5000000
coasts spatial table Coastal lines at low resolution, displayed by the MapViewer at scales < 1:5000000
countries spatial table Country polygons
fao_rwdb_rivers spatial table River line strings from FAO RWDB2 River-Surface Water Body Network
populated_places spatial table Point location of towns from Natural Earth Populated Places
surface_water spatial table Water body polygons from FAO RWDB2 Surface Water Bodies

Grids and gridded data

Resource Type Description
grid_083dd spatial table Grid of 1/12 dd cells. Contains also several columns with thematic data, such as the themes of the MapViewer's "FAO Land Management" layer.
grid_1dd spatial table Grid of 1 dd cells. There are two spatial columns: CELL with quadrilateral-shaped geometries (i.e. proper cells) and CORR_CELL with quadrilateral cells cut by coastlines (so geometries contain only the continental part of the cell and not the sea).
grid_1dd_gpcc table Contains precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) of the Deutscher Wetterdienst. Data columns have a _MM suffix to refer to a month (e.g. RAIN_07 contains precipitation data of July). YEAR is the column specifying the year of data. G1D_ID is the reference to the ID column of GRID_1DD.
grid_1dd_spi table Contains data of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) of the Deutscher Wetterdienst. Seven time scales are available: 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 24, and 48 months. Data columns have a double _MMTS suffix to refer to month and time scale (e.g. SPI_1124 contains SPI-12 data of November). YEAR is the column specifying the year of data. G1D_ID is the reference to the ID column of GRID_1DD.
grid_1dd_gpcc_year view Join between GRID_1DD and GRID_1DD_GPCC on GRID_1DD_GPCC.G1D_ID=GRID_1DD.ID
grid_1dd_spi_year view Join between GRID_1DD and GRID_1DD_SPI on GRID_1DD_SPI.G1D_ID=GRID_1DD.ID

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