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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I am attempting to use the
gdal_merge utility to mosaic pre-registered aerial photographs and provide a
worldfile for the output. I am using RGB satellite images
in .JPG format averaging about 7MB per image. The problem is
that my output file size for say 10 images is extremely large ( 5.9
GB). Also it takes a very long tome for the utility to complete
with only 10 maps. Is there anything I can do to drastically reduce the
size of my output to better reflect the initial input sizes or any
way I can speed the process up? Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Adam Yesaitis<BR>Western Technologies Group<BR>Tel:
908-725-1143<BR>Fax: 908-725-1488<BR>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:adamy@wtgroupllc.com">adamy@wtgroupllc.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>