25 September 2008

JP2 on Ice

I was listening to a BBC technology podcast on the flight down to Atlanta for the OGC TC meeting, and there was a piece about tracking icebergs in the Antarctic. I was half-asleep as they said something about needing to compress data since they have poor bandwidth down there, when suddenly I was wide-awake as they said they were using JPEG 2000 -- and with geospatial extensions!

Subsequent investigation showed they're not using GMLJP2, but still...

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