[DOCS] Add blog post on the raster data source tiling reader#3098
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Introduce the 1.9.0 raster data source that tiles GeoTIFFs into one row per tile on read, using a 3.5 GB AlphaEarth Foundations scene as the running example. Includes inspection and cross-tile zonal-stats snippets and an SVG cover.
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[DOCS] my subjectWhat changes were proposed in this PR?
Adds a blog post, "Open Huge GeoTIFFs Without the 2 GB Wall", introducing the
rasterdata source that tiles a GeoTIFF into one row per tile on read (1.9.0). The post uses a 3.5 GB AlphaEarth Foundations embedding scene (8192×8192, 64 bands, COG with 1024×1024 internal tiles) as the running example and covers:retile/tileWidth/tileHeight/padWithNoDataoptions and directory globbing (recursiveFileLookup,pathGlobFilter);New files:
docs/blog/posts/raster-tiling-reader.mddocs/blog/posts/raster-tiling-reader-cover.svg(hand-authored SVG cover)How was this patch tested?
Documentation-only change. The code snippets were verified locally by loading a real 3.5 GB GeoTIFF through
sedona.read.format("raster")and running the inspection and zonal-statistics queries shown in the post: the file split into 64 tiles (8×8) of 1024×1024×64 bands each, and the tiling-aware zonal-stats roll-up (SUM(sum)/SUM(count)) counted exactly the expected number of pixels across the overlapping tiles. The page renders in the mkdocs blog and passes the repo's markdownlint/codespell pre-commit hooks.Did this PR include necessary documentation updates?