RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-27 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
source geo-aware JP2 solution. -mpg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of François-Olivier Devaux Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:50 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-27 Thread François-Olivier Devaux
you have any benchmark data you can share?) -mpg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of François-Olivier Devaux Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:47 AM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Michael, > > If you're using ERMapper (ECW) files now, you're already deep into the > world of lossy transforms. We're not routinely using ecw as a definitive storage solution. ERMapper grid format is used though. Thanks for the kind offer to encode some data. I may take you up on it l

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
for you still holds :-) -mpg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:12 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless'

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Michael, Again, I don't pretend to be an expert on JPEG2000. However, I'd like to know more about the format for future reference. Does the wiki article at the following URL represent a good overview of the format? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000 If it is accurate, there is a

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:39 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 IMO: Michael,

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:47 AM > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 > > Hi, > > Norman Vine has pointed to me this discussion about JPEG 2000, and I > thought it might be interesting to give you a small overvie

[OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-26 Thread François-Olivier Devaux
Hi, Norman Vine has pointed to me this discussion about JPEG 2000, and I thought it might be interesting to give you a small overview on JPEG 2000 and present the OpenJPEG library on which we are working. FIELDS WHERE JPEG 2000 IS USED JPEG 2000 is becoming the reference in image co

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Michael, Thanks for the comments on this thread. I've had a couple of private emails expressing interest in the outcome, so I'll continue this conversation in public, rather than moving it offline. One of the problems that I have is that I understand that JPEG 2000 can be 'lossy' or 'n

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Norman Vine
Michael P. Gerlek writes: > > Someday I'd like to try and open a dialog with the OpenJP2 developers > about this topic, but last I heard they were completely > uninterested in supporting GB-sized datasets. > Michael H . Maybe the time is right :-) http://groups.google.com/group/openjp

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:26:16PM -0500, Ed McNierney wrote: > Christopher - > > Let me add the "evidence" that I have found that reducing the strip size > in LZW-compressed GeoTIFFs has, not surprisingly, a VERY large effect on > read performance - about a factor of 10 in the particular cases I

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Ed McNierney
5, 2008 9:18 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:04:59PM -0500, Ed McNierney wrote: > Christopher - > > You will very likely find that using different LZW compression options (particularly setting a small str

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:04:59PM -0500, Ed McNierney wrote: > Christopher - > > You will very likely find that using different LZW compression options > (particularly setting a small strip size) will slightly degrade compression > performance while significantly improving read time. While I t

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Ed McNierney
ebruary 25, 2008 8:57 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:31:34PM -0800, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > Yup: Kakadu is not Open Source, as per the OSI definition of the term. > The only FOSS package I know of is OpenJ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:31:34PM -0800, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > Yup: Kakadu is not Open Source, as per the OSI definition of the term. > The only FOSS package I know of is OpenJpeg2000 (or something like > that); unfortunately, however, it is not suitable for geo-sized imagery > last time I lo

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
ED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Schmidt > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:18 AM > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:22AM -0800, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > > Bruce- > >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:22AM -0800, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > Bruce- > > Again, I'm not sure how to convince you of this... JP2 is inherently > lossless just like GeoTIFF is; what arguments do you / would you find > persuaive to use GeoTIFF? (alternatively, what do you use now that you >

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-25 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
a bit esoteric for the rest of the OSGeo crowd] -mpg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:19 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: Bruce- It is not clear to me what sort of "study" you would need to convince you, as the ISO standard for encoding data into the JPEG-2000 file format is by construction mathematically and numerically lossless process. (Indeed, "compression", i.e. throwing away bits

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-23 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Michael, My concern as a custodian of significant image resources is to ensure that the integrity of this data is protected and available for future analytical use by ourselves and by the public. As an example, to conduct multi-temporal analysis of 'imagery' to help understand big pictu

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-23 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
o: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 IMO: Thanks for the reply Traian, I don't mean to be dismissive of this report, but I was hoping for something more definitive to prove th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-23 Thread Wilfred L. Guerin
See also the FIF formats from the late 1990s, there was at least on validated system using that fractal information format / f image f that was released publicly before the terrorist american nsa jacked the patents and disappeared the company. Files were even deleted by "authority" from one of my b

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-23 Thread Traian Stanev
__ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:57 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000 IMO: Thanks for the reply Traian, I don't mean to be dismissive of thi

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 'lossless' JPEG2000

2008-02-23 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Thanks for the reply Traian, I don't mean to be dismissive of this report, but I was hoping for something more definitive to prove that 'lossless' JPEG compressions did indeed protect the integrity of the data.. Perhaps its just my ignorance, but I was hoping for something along the li