org.geotools.gce.imagemosaic
Class ImageMosaicFormat

Object
  extended by AbstractGridFormat
      extended by ImageMosaicFormat
All Implemented Interfaces:
Format

public final class ImageMosaicFormat
extends AbstractGridFormat
implements Format

AbstractGridFormat sublass for controlling ImageMosaicReader creation. As the name says, it handles mosaic of georeferenced images, which means

  1. tiff+tfw+prj
  2. jpeg+tfw+prj
  3. png+tfw+prj
  4. geotiff
This does not mean that you throw there a couple of images and it will do the trick no matter how these images are. Requirements are: The first requirement can be relaxed a little but if they have the same spatial resolution the performances are much better. There are parameters that you can use to control the behaviour of the mosaic in terms of thresholding and transparency. They are as follows: