Creating Single-Band GeoTIFFs of Sidescan Data

Chesapeake Times, Vol 7 | October 2021 What is a Vertical GeoTIFF?? GeoTIFF is a public domain metadata standard which allows geo-referencing information to be embedded within a TIFF file (Wikipedia). Normally, the GeoTIFF format is used for geo-referenced images, where each pixel in the TIFF represents a color to display at a specified geographic location. The metadata in the TIFF encodes the geospatial information needed to render the image at the appropriate location on the earth. SonarWiz offers extensive support for exporting seafloor imagery in this format.  More recently, GeoTIFFs have been used to encode physical measurements rather than just imagery. …