azavea / azavea/simple-raster-processing

Determine compression effect on performance

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A national scale `Byte` GeoTiff weighs in at about 15GB, but using the GeoTiff `LZW` compression algorithm, that is reduced to ~600MB. A substantial savings on disk, but run some test to see how that is related to the speed of a windowed read of different sizes.

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