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Hi, Adam We have had some staffing changes here at Unidata, and so I am afraid the information you have on GeoTIFFs is current. Basically, better GeoTIFF support is still on the todo list :-\ -Julien > Full Name: Adam Houston > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln > Package Version: 2.8a1 > Operating System: Linux > Hardware: > Description of problem: Looks like this topic has come up on a couple of > occasions and each time the resolution is basically that IDV doesn't do > geotiffs well. Since it's been about a year since the last post and since I > have had some limited success opening a geotiff with IDV I thought it would > be worth another post. > > I'm attempting to open a geotiff in IDV. Opening it as a "3 color RGB" fails > with the error "Cannot execute method: decodeAsRenderedImage". Opening it as > "grid data" produces a display that appears to be correctly geolocated but > the data values are the color values and so the display is difficult to > interpret. If I had a color table that matched the color value to the > correct color then it wouldn't matter that the "3 color RGB" option fails. > Any suggestions? > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SUW-646999 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open