geotiff.js

About

geotiff.js is a pure-JavaScript library for reading and visualizing TIFF and GeoTIFF files. It runs in browsers and Node.js and supports compression, geographic metadata, internal tiling, color-space conversion, and other TIFF features. It is useful for client-side raster inspection and for applications that need to work with TIFF data without a server-side GIS stack.

Features

• Parse TIFF and GeoTIFF files in JavaScript
• Runs in browsers and Node.js
• Fetch remote files via HTTP range requests
• Decode LZW, Deflate, and JPEG compression
• Read internal tiling and overviews
• Support for Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs

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