sandboxed-api/oss-internship-2020/gdal/README.md

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# GDAL Raster GeoTIFF Workflow
```
Build Tools: CMake/Ninja
OS: Linux
```
### For testing:
`mkdir build && cd build`
`cmake .. -G Ninja`
`ninja`
`./raster`
## About the project
GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector
geospatial data format.
The project consist in rastering a GeoTIFF file format
using GDAL functionalities and sandboxed methods.
## Implementation
*Sandboxing...*
The purpose of sandboxing is to limit the permissions
and capabilities of librarys methods, in order to
secure the usage of them. After obtaining the sandbox,
the functions will be called through an Sandbox API
(being called api in the current test) and so, the
operations, system calls or namspaces access may be
controlled.
*Raster process...*
From gdal.h header useful methods are added to sapi
library builded with CMake.
One .tiff file is manipulated with GDALOpen
functionality, which extracts a pointer to the data set
containg a list of raster bands, all pertaining to the
same area.
Metadata, a coordinate system, a georeferencing
transform, size of raster and various other information
are kept into the data set that corresponds to the image.
To create an array containing the image information, the
dimentions needed are extracted using some specific
GDAL(X/Y)Size functions applied to the block.
GDALRasterBand function takes care of data type conversion, one more step following: placing the
converted data (with RasterIO method) into the created
and well allocated structure.