Catalog-only system for LIDAR-derived 1m DEMs covering Texas. We do not
mirror raster data — the DB stores tile metadata (URL + footprint
geometry) and elevation values are streamed on-demand from public USGS
3DEP / TNRIS Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs via GDAL /vsicurl/ HTTP byte-range
reads. Used for future tower coverage line-of-sight calculations.
- Enable PostGIS extension; tile footprints indexed via GiST
- Catalog sync from USGS 3DEP (primary) and TNRIS (fallback for gaps)
- Tile dedup by ST_Contains so TNRIS doesn't duplicate 3DEP coverage
- Single-point reads via gdallocationinfo with tile fallthrough on nodata
- Grid retrieval via gdal_translate AAIGrid with multi-tile mosaicing
- Monthly Oban cron worker keeps catalog fresh
- gdal-bin added to runtime image; geo_postgis dep added
