Before revision: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF "Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF" (COG) is a standard based on GeoTIFF, designed to make it straightforward to use GeoTIFFs hosted on HTTP webservers, so that users / software can make use of partial data within the file without having to download the entire file.Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF websiteCOG technical specification (on Github) It is designed to work with HTTP range requests, and specifies a particular layout of data and metadata within the GeoTIFF, such that clients can predict which range of bytes they need to download.
After revision: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF "Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF" (COG) is a standard based on GeoTIFF, designed to make it straightforward to use GeoTIFFs hosted on HTTP webservers, so that users and software can make use of partial data within the file without having to download the entire file.Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF websiteCOG technical specification (on Github) It is designed to work with HTTP range requests, and specifies a particular layout of data and metadata within the GeoTIFF, such that clients can predict which range of bytes they need to download.