Experiments with the global JAXA ALOS World 30m elevation model on AWS S3 +++
## TL;DR
Using "this one weird GDAL creation option" `-co PREDICTOR=2` shaves 325Gb off the ALOS World global 30m elevation model. Data available in requester pays S3 bucket via GDAL virtual file system at `/vsis3/geofolio-public/jaxa_alos_world_30m/jaxa_alos_world_30m.vrt`.
## Data access
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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...