[gdal-dev] Interest for a driver to read Phase One IIQ images?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

just got one private email from a user up to now: "multiple NASA 
airborne observatories use Phase One cameras, and we are considering 
their rad-hard detectors for future satellite missions. Would be great 
to have optimized driver for these large images."    (note of myself: as 
far as I can see from the driver code: it/the SDK decompresses the full 
image at once, so "large" will be determined by how much RAM you have)

PSC: thoughts ?

Even

Le 26/10/2024 à 13:09, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Esri has developed a GDAL driver to be able to read for the Phase One 
> IIQ format (that they use in ArcGIS). Phase One 
> (https://www.phaseone.com/) makes aerial, UAV, and space cameras.
>
> The PhaseOne file format (IIQ) is TIFF, storing a full-resolution raw 
> (compressed Bayer) image in a custom tag. The GDAL driver needs to be 
> built against a proprietary SDK (ImageSDK) for decoding such images: 
> https://developer.phaseone.com/sdk/3.1/docs/appendices/download.html . 
> The source code of the IIQ GDAL driver itself isn't that large (700 
> lines).
>
> Is there an interest in having that driver in the OSGeo/GDAL 
> repository? Due to the proprietary nature of the PhaseOne SDK, the IIQ 
> driver wouldn't be available in the common packaging systems people 
> usually get GDAL from, and would have to be built as a plugin from 
> source (or doing a full build with it enabled). Otherwise Esri 
> expressed the intent of publicly releasing the source code of the 
> driver in a separate repository?
>
> Even
>
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