imageio-ext

Developer’s Corner: ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.6 Release

Dear all,We would like to take 10 minutes of your time to introduce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.6 release.Various improvements have been implemented in this release:Source code move to gihubGDAL Support has been upgraded to version 1.9.2. This brings along support for Windows 64 bits!NITF writer plugin TurboJPEG  pluginIt is worh to point out a few interesting facts.Migration to GithubWe have started to migrate the source code as well as the documentation and the issues to github in order to make it simpler for developers to eventually contribute to the project. Moreover the artifacts like Java binaries as well as native libraries (at least the...

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Developer’s Corner: ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.5 Release

Dear all,We would like to take the occasion to introduce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.5 releaseVarious improvements have been implemented:Highly improved BigTiff reader (less memory used, higher scalability)Minor Improvements on Kakadu based JP2K writer and readerArtifacts for Imageio-Ext have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.The GeoSolutions team,

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ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.4 Release

Dear all,We would like to take the occasion to introduce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.4 releaseVarious improvements have been implemented:Better GDAL Driver availability checks.Better TIFF-Metadata management (Tile ByteCounts and Offsets aren't stored into IIOMetadata node textual attributes anymore)Minor Improvements on Kakadu based JP2K writerMore work is coming to further improve support for large GeoTiff and BigTiff, so stay tuned for more performance in the near future for GeoTools and GeoServer.Artifacts for Imageio-Ext have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.The GeoSolutions team,

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Developer’s Corner: GeoServer Stunning image quality + max compression rate = New PNG8 quantizer is served!

Hi everybody,in this blog we want to introduce the new GeoServer PNG8 quantizer.PNG8 is a shorthand for PNG 8bit, that is, a PNG image that uses a fixed palette of 256 (or less) colors and can thus encode each pixel with just one byte.The interest in the format comes from its smaller size, often between 2 and 3 times smaller than the equivalent 24bit PNG image. Smaller size means:proportional size cut in tile cache storage, which normally means cutting away several GB if not TB (depending on the amount of seending and the size of the cached geographic area)shorter transfer...

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Developer’s Corner: ImageIO-Ext 1.1.3 Release is available

Dear all,We would like to take the occasion to introduce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.3 release (which is now supported by GeoServer 2.1.x, 2.2.x and GeoTools 2.7.x and 8.x.Various improvements have been implemented for the GDAL framework in order to enhance its speed and robustness:Tested with GDAL 1.7.3 and 1.8.1 on all Linux32/linux64/win32/win64More aggressive caching of GDAL Dataset resulting in more speedLess synchronization around GDAL calls resulting in more scalabilityArtifacts ReleasedArtifacts for Imageio-Ext have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.The GeoSolutions team,

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