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 [PostGIS](https://postgis.net/) enhances the [PostgreSQL](https://postgresql.org/) relational database by adding support for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data. On FASRC, PostGIS is ideal for tasks that require CPU-based spatial databases. For more information about using PostGIS on FASRC, click [here](/geospatial-data-science-tools-and-data-harvards-high-performance-computing-infrastructure).  
  
**Using PostGIS on FASRC**:



 

  
  
**Use-Cases/Publications:** - Brown, J.R., Enos, R.D. [The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01066-z). Nat Hum Behav 5, 998–1008 (2021).
- Kakkar, D., Lewis, B., Guan, W., [Interactive analysis of big geospatial data with high-performance computing: A case study of partisan segregation in the United States](https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12955), TGIS 2022.
- Kakkar, D., Blossom, J., and Guan, W.: [RINX: A Solution for Information Extraction from Big Raster Datasets](https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-4-W1-2022/245/2022/), Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W1-2022, 245–250.



 



 

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