<div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>After a bit of advice...
</div><div><br></div><div>JPEG compression is fast and pretty space-efficient for raster imagery. But it's RGB-only.</div><div>JPEG2000 supports RGBA, has built-in overviews, but it can be slow & CPU-hungry.</div>
<div>TIFF with deflate/lzw supports RGBA but is big for imagery.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For simple RGB originals where imagery is later reprojected, all the alpha band in the reprojected version ends up being is a boolean mask with a 0 (nodata) or 255 (data) value.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ideally I want something that is JPEG compressed images, has an alpha band mask, and where I can create overviews.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.gdal.org/frmt_gtiff.html">http://www.gdal.org/frmt_gtiff.html</a> talks about internal nodata masks, which sounds relevant, but doesn't really explain how to create them or how they work? I'm guessing here, but there's a normal tiled JPEG image in the TIFF file, and a tiled mask band with 1bpp, which could presumably be compressed further with deflate/etc too. And at read-time they could come out as RGBA?<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>For mosaicing ... are they supported by overviews and VRTs in a sensible way? For VRTs - the internal nodata value (no data in this pixel) would need to match the VRT nodata (no tile in this area). Last time I tried creating overviews for JPEG-in-TIFF alpha/nodata was handled bizarrely, but that could be all fixed by now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a way to convert a masked TIFF to a vanilla RGBA TIFF image for previewing in eg. image editing software?</div><div><br></div><div>Talking more about JPEG-in-TIFF, the docs say:</div><div><br>
</div><div>> When translating a RGB image to JPEG-In-TIFF, using PHOTOMETRIC=YCBCR can make the size of the image typically 2 to 3 times smaller than the default photometric value (RGB). When using PHOTOMETRIC=YCBCR, the INTERLEAVE option must be kept to its default value (PIXEL), otherwise libtiff will fail to compress the data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does interleave=pixel affect read performance cf =band for a RGB JPEG? It's within a tiled tiff and JPEG compression is both 3-band & tiled, so I'm not really sure where the interleaving fits in?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Rob :)</div><div><br></div></div>