[Geotiff] Images vs DEMs in GeoTiff

[Frank Warmerdam]

Nagle, Gail A (US SSA) wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> Thank you for the clarification. Given the fact that there are many
> types of raster data and the increasing use of automation to process
> data, are there any plans to revise the GeoTiff standard to allow the
> creator to specify how to interpret the data stored in a GeoTIFF file?
> At the moment, a reader, computer or human, must guess.

Gail,

I am not aware of any efforts to do this for GeoTIFF.  There are general
metadata standards that attempt to accomplish this sort of thing, and they
might be applied to GeoTIFFs to, but I don't generally have much faith in
this sort of thing.

Best regards,
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