Experiments with the global JAXA ALOS World 30m elevation model on AWS S3 +++
So yesterday I was looking into a global 30m elevation model called the ALOS Global Digital Surface Model (AW3D30). It is from 2016 and produced by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Supposedly it is a pretty [decent...
Guide to GeoTIFF compression and optimization with GDAL +++
With the fast ZSTD compression (GDAL 2.3 and above) and Limited Error Raster Compression (GDAL 2.4) becoming available in our favourite geospatial toolkit, I thought it would be interesting to run some benchmarks and write a guide on compressing and optimizing GeoTIFF files using the latest...