[Geotiff] data types in bands
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Jun 22 16:50:03 EST 2009
Kyle Shannon wrote:
> I just have a quick question about geotiffs that I couldn't find in the
> spec. I am assuming that geotiffs do not support different data types
> for single bands within that file. Is that correct?
Kyle,
This is a TIFF rather than GeoTIFF issue. The TIFF BitsPerSample
tag has a value for each sample, so it is theoretically possible to
have different bitspersample values for different band data types.
However, this is not a baseline tiff, and would not be supported
by very many software packages in the world. So I'd strongly
advise against doing this in most circumstances.
Best regards,
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