locationtech / locationtech/geotrellis

GeoTiffReader can not read striped tiffs without the StripByteCount information

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Description

It is not possible to read the following tiff with our GeoTiffReader:

GeoTiffRasterSource("NE2_HR_LC_SR_W_DR.tif").read()

The sample data lives here: http://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/10m/raster/NE2_HR_LC_SR_W_DR.zip

In this case GDAL considers the entire TIFF as a stripe: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/2299c134f0ee795f57717eae9c8622167a0b89bb/gdal/frmts/gtiff/libtiff/tif_dirread.c#L4219-L4229

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Research direction

Start with GeoTiffReader and reproduce the failure using GeoTiffRasterSource("NE2_HR_LC_SR_W_DR.tif").read() and the sample TIFF from the linked Natural Earth archive. Compare the reader's handling with the linked GDAL StripByteCount logic; done means the striped TIFF without StripByteCount can be read successfully.

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Assessment

Tech stack
scala
Domain
data
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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