Format |
SID |
J2K |
Company |
LizardTech |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
Description | MrSID is an acronym that stands for multiresolution seamless image database. It is a file format (filename extension .sid) developed and patented by LizardTech for encoding of georeferenced raster graphics, such as orthophotos. | JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard. The aim of JPEG 2000 is not only improved compression performance over JPEG but also adding (or improving) features such as scalability and editability. |
Benefits | Since MrSID files contain multiple scale and quality levels they are claimed to be well suited for streaming over the World Wide Web. Only the requested zoom and area of the image is sent to the browser making the drawing/navigating/viewing performance extremely fast. | much smaller file size at equal quality than JPEG |
Drawbacks | not many programs handle it | less popular, requires more computational resources |
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