[Torn between posting in Desktop forum and Server forum ... but chose Server forum due to SLD discussion]
Is there a way to symbolize raster data as point features WITHOUT converting the raster to a point feature class first? For extremely large rasters, having to convert first is terribly inefficient ... as you move from the very gridded / array data that makes rasters efficient in the first place.
To provide some context, say I have a multi-band raster dataset. Band 1 is wind direction. Band 2 is wind speed. I would like to be able to symbolize with an arrow or vector at each raster grid center point (possibly filtering overlapping arrows) with color being determined from Band 2 (speed) and rotation being calculated from Band 1. I then want to publish that symbology to ArcGIS Server.
Again, I would like to be able to do this directly from the raster in my symbology, without having to directly convert to points first?
Any hope for this?
GeoServer (which I have used quite a bit lately) provides such a capability on-the-fly in its Raster-to-Vector processing capabilities which can be specified from within an SLD utilizing a WPS.
Any chance of doing something like this from an SLD for a WMS published from ArcGIS Server?
Possibly in concert with a geoprocessing service?
Sorry that I'm all over the road on my question. Just trying to find something comparable to a rather elegant and unique GeoServer solution I am using.
Thanks!
