By Jed Sundwall, Executive Director of Radiant Earth USGS animation showing how Cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs enable precise access to data. In our November post about democratization of Earth observation technologies, I promised to share some history of the Cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) in a future post. This post fulfills that promise and includes some insights into the thinking behind the COG and how it emerged as a community standard. My hope is that sharing this history can help explain what ...
