Hi Robert, answers inside

Zitat von Robert Buckley <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to serve all by Orthophotos with geoserver and then   
> cache them with GeoWebCache.
>
> Each Photo is a 3 band 8 bit raster with a 40cm resolution at around  
>  74mb each.
>
> - Is there any benefit to reducing the bands from 3 to 1? ( the size  
>  of the raster remains the same)

The pixel dimensions remain the same, but  one pixel is represented by  
one byte instead of three bytes. The answers is definitely YES.

>
>  - Is there any way I can reduce the size from 75mb? I have around   
> 1300 Photos and it would be nice to lower the upload time...



I have the same problem here and thinking about the following solution.
use gdal_merge.py or gdalwarp to create one big picture having 3 bands
use rgb2pct.py to create a big picture having one band.
use gdal_translate to create a geotiff (using inner tiles and LZW  
compression).
use gdaladdo to create the the overviews you need

The result should be one geotiff file (Probably a bigtiff if the size  
is bigger than 4GB).

Geoserver supports geotiff out of the box. Geoserver 2.2.x supports  
bigtiff, Geoserver 2.1.x supports it recently.
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-3931
If you are on 2.1.x and you need bigtiff support, you have to test  
with a nightly build.


Hope this helps
Christian

>
> thanks for your suggestions,
>
> Rob



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