Developer’s Corner: GeoServer now supports Vector Footprints for ImageMosaic
Dear all, with this blog post we want to introduce a new functionality which has been added lately to GeoServer for masking raster data configured as ImageMosaic stores by providing a vector footprint. This feature is available if you use a version of GeoServer which is newer than 2.4.5. Full documentation can be found here. Footprints can be configured in three different ways: By using for each mosaic granule a Sidecar File, a Shapefile with the same name of the granule which contains the footprint for it; By using a single Shapefile called footprints.shp which contains all the footprints for each granule; each footprint...
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