Overview

GeoCompressor, developed by Hexagon, is a high-performance geospatial data compression tool designed to handle massive imagery and point cloud datasets. It enables users to compress large-scale images and point clouds into significantly smaller, visually lossless files, facilitating efficient storage and rapid access without compromising quality. This capability is essential for industries that manage extensive geospatial data, ensuring seamless integration and distribution across various platforms and applications.

Features and Capabilities

• Support for Multiple Input Formats: Accepts over 100 file types, providing flexibility in data handling.
• High-Performance Compression: Achieves throughput exceeding 180 MB/sec on standard hardware for rapid mosaicking and compression.
• Mosaicking Capability: Combines thousands of image files into a single mosaic, streamlining data management.
• Selective Region Updates: Allows updating specific regions within existing mosaics without recreating the entire file.
• Polygon Clipping: Enables clipping to polygon boundaries for creating customized data outputs.
• User-Friendly Interface: Features a simple wizard and command-line mode for streamlined processes and advanced control.
• Free Viewer Application: Includes GeoCompressor Viewer for viewing ECW and JPEG2000 images, as well as ECWP protocol imagery.
• Multi-Language Support: Offers interfaces in English, German, Korean, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese.
• Enhanced Metadata Viewing: Provides an XML metadata view for ECW and JP2 layer properties, improving data understanding.
• Disk Benchmark Utility: Includes a utility for verifying disk read I/O performance, optimizing hardware setup.
• Checksum Calculation Utility: Offers a tool for file integrity verification during compression and transfer processes.