<sect1 id="RT_Loading_Rasters">
<title>Loading and Creating Rasters</title>
<para>For most use cases, you will create PostGIS rasters by loading existing raster files using the packaged <varname>raster2pgsql</varname> raster loader.</para>
+
+ <sect2 id="raster2pgsql_usage">
+ <title>Using the raster2pgsql Raster Loader</title>
+ <para>
+ The <varname>raster2pgsql.py</varname> is a raster loader python script that utilizes Python, PyGDAL, and NumPy to convert any GDAL supported raster format into sql suitable for loading into a PostGIS raster table.
+ It is capable of loading folders of raster files as well as creating overviews of rasters.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2 id="Raster_Creation">
<para>For the examples in this reference we will be using a raster table of dummy rasters - Formed with the following code </para>
<programlisting>CREATE TABLE dummy_rast(rid integer, rast raster);