>From a JPEG2000 image, you can use kdu_expand -reduce to quickly extract an
>image of the top (or any other) level pyramid. In the example below, I extract
>from a JPEG2000 image, pyramid level 10 from a 142 GB image in 0.10 seconds.
>Perhaps you could consider using JPEG2000.
Greg
$ ls -hl dcua0171_BigTiffYes.tif dcua0171_BigTiffYes_rev.jp2
142G Feb 16 2010 dcua0171_BigTiffYes.tif
58G Feb 16 2010 dcua0171_BigTiffYes_rev.jp2
$ /usr/bin/time $kdu_expand -i dcua0171_BigTiffYes_rev.jp2 -o reduce10.tif
-reduce 10
Copying Geo box info, size = 387
0.10 real 0.08 user 0.02 sys
$ ls -hl reduce10.tif
143K Nov 18 10:37 reduce10.tif
On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Ronan Crowley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using GDAL (via Java) to view an ECW file.
>
> It generally works fine, however I'm having serious memory issues.
>
> I have a 6MB ECW file, that when I try to view in its entirety I get
> OutOfMemory errors.
>
> The code I'm using to extract the image is pretty much the code from the
> GDALtest.java file in the swig sub-project.
>
> What I'm wodering, is if there is any way to get the number of pyramid levels
> inside the image and grab the top-most pyramid level image ?
>
> Thanks,
> Ronan
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