I need to stream large geotiff files through web server. By large I mean 1Gb-3Gb.
The datasets I was given aren not tilled (pixel strips).
I wonder how does it affect efficiency of reading them using GDAL. If I request only part of image - does GDAL load into memory only the relevant part of image? Does the file need to be tilled in order to be read piece by piece?
This is how gdalinfo output look like for typical file I want to read:
Band 1 Block=43554x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
NoData Value=-10000
Band 2 Block=43554x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
NoData Value=-10000
Band 3 Block=43554x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
NoData Value=-10000
Band 4 Block=43554x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Alpha
NoData Value=-10000
Question is: if i want to access 512x512 fragemnt will GDAL read (best case scenario) at least 43554x512 pixels? (and allocate at leat that much memory).