<span class="gmail_quote"></span>Post Scriptum to my previous email:<br><div> <br>I'm working in the Summer of Code with the Refractions Research, having Simone
Giannecchini as my Mentor.<br>My purpose is encapsulating the GDAL library
within the ImageIO Java tools, by using SWIG java bindings.<br><br>In such a
way, we can exploit the Java ImageIO plugins within the GeoTools grid coverage
plugins, in order to access (read and write) many coverage formats.<br><br>Probably, we need to modify the bindings to handle tile management.<br>As an instance, we need to add a binding for retrieving the chunk size. <br>
<br>In such a manner, within the ImageIO plugin, we can know the rasterband block size and set the tilesize of the Image to this value. <br>This allows to use powerfull features of JAI ImageIO toolkit, as the tile caching and the tile scheduling mechanismes, with great efficiency because the data accesses will be performed in compliance with the rasterband natural access size which represents the more efficient chunk access size, as stated in the GDAL Data Model.
<br><br>Regards,<br></div><div><span class="sg">Daniele<br><br><br>
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