[gdal-dev] setting MAX_Z_ERROR on overviews compressed with LERC_DEFLATE

Duarte Carreira dncarreira at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 03:26:51 PST 2021


So I tried LERC_DEFLATE and MAX_Z_ERROR=0.5 and that worked amazingly! From
350MB DEFLATE PREDICTOR 3, to 45MB...

There are free 32bit elevation data here if anyone's interested:
https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1?tab=download.

Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi> escreveu no dia
quinta, 18/11/2021 à(s) 17:34:

> Hi,
>
>
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> I have no experience on 32 bit images but play with gdaladdo and
> compression options and report what you find. External overviews (-ro) are
> handy for testing because you can simply rename or delete the .ovr file and
> make new run with other options. External overviews take some more space
> than it takes to add internal overviews into TIFF but best option as
> external should be best as internal too.
>
>
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
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> *Lähettäjä:* Duarte Carreira <dncarreira at gmail.com>
> *Lähetetty:* torstai 18. marraskuuta 2021 18.30
> *Vastaanottaja:* Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi
> >
> *Kopio:* gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> *Aihe:* Re: [gdal-dev] setting MAX_Z_ERROR on overviews compressed with
> LERC_DEFLATE
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> Well, it didn't even occur to me to compress the overviews with
> translate...
>
> I was expecting a bit more compressing from lerc...
>
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> About tif 32bit, what compression do you think would yield better ratios?
>
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> Thanks.
>
>
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> Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi> escreveu no
> dia quinta, 18/11/2021 à(s) 12:41:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I made some tests with an 8 bit RGB image.
>
> First observation was that gdaladdo supports lerc_deflate (even it is not
> documented), but it does not support “MAX_Z_ERROR”. This yields same sized
> ovr file with or without max_z_error.
>
> gdaladdo -ro lerc_def2.tif --config compress_overview lerc_deflate
> --config MAX_Z_ERROR 10
>
>
>
> Another observation was that this option would really save some disk
> space. I compressed the lossless ovr file with gdal_translate by using -co
> max_z_error=10 and file sizes were:
>
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> source tiff: 432 072 372 bytes
>
> lecr_deflate cog without overviews: 311 258 085 bytes
>
>
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> lossless lerc_deflate overviews: 118 954 009 bytes
>
> lerc_deflare overviews with z_error=10: 52 400 583 bytes
>
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> For comparison even not relevant to original question about 32 bit data
>
> jpeg-ycbcr overviews with default quality: 14 481 967 bytes
>
>
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>
> *Lähettäjä:* gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *Puolesta *Duarte
> Carreira
> *Lähetetty:* torstai 18. marraskuuta 2021 13.45
> *Vastaanottaja:* gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> *Aihe:* [gdal-dev] setting MAX_Z_ERROR on overviews compressed with
> LERC_DEFLATE
>
>
>
> Hi there.
>
>
>
> I am looking into compressing overviews for a DEM, with LERC_DEFLATE and
> it works. But I'm trying to set the precision loss and get better
> compression, since for overviews I don't really care that much.
>
> Ok, so the question is how to set the MAX_Z_ERROR for overviews compressed
> with LERC_DEFLATE?
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>
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> More context:
>
> My reasoning is to compress losslessly the dem with deflate predictor 3,
> and then compress "lossly"  the overviews with lerc_deflate.
>
> Since this is 32bit dataset, I can't use jpeg on the overviews.
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Duarte
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