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Is your company in line with the rest of the geospatial community?

LizardTech’s Industry Survey: Raster Imagery, LiDAR Data, Cloud Storage

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We’re sharing results from a brief questionnaire prepared and distributed by LizardTech to provide a high level picture regarding use of raster imagery and LiDAR, data compression practices and cloud storage in the geospatial industry.

So, how do you compare?

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None

Other

Bathymetric imagery

SAR/IFSAR

Hyperspectral imagery

Satellite imagery

Aerial imagery

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

1%

6%

8%

8%

13%

56%

92%

Raster Imagery in Use

By far, the most commonly used kind of raster imagery is aerial imagery

Download the survey results here.

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Other

Difficult to split large files into tiles

Inadequate image editing tools

Inefficient search/retrieval of AOI

Difficult/expensive to archive

Time consuming to process

Large file sizes

High cost of acquisition

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

4%

3%

4%

4%

8%

18%

22%

38%

Largest Pain Point Related to Raster Data

The largest pain point when it comes to

raster data? High cost of acquisition

Download the survey results here.

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45% believe raster data would be more useful with higher spatial resolution

Other

Broader geographic coverage

More frequent collection

Higher spatial resolution

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

7%

8%

40%

45%

Raster Data Would Be More Useful With...

Download the survey results here.

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Other

LAZ

NITF

DOQQ

JPEG 2000

ECW

IMG

MrSID

TIFF

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

2%

1%

1%

2%

7%

8%

9%

28%

41%

Most Useful Image Format

TIFF and MrSID top the list of most used image formats for their felixbility

Download the survey results here.

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Interested in the full survey report? Download the

survey results here.

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