Coverage plugin to decode Matlab files which adhere to version 5 of the format specification.

Module Status

Gold Star Quality Assurance Check

IP Check: review.apt added, all headers are in place
Quality Assurance: More than 60% test coverage reported by cobertura.
Stability: No planned API changes
Supported: Documents available. Module maintainer does watches user list, answers email.

Aim

The aim of this module is to allow access JPEG2K data using the Kakadu driver via the imageio-ext-kakadujp2 plugin we have prepared on imageio-ext (Which uses JNI) when the Kakadu SDK can be found in the path; otherwise the standard JAI ImageIO JPEG2K plugin will be used. Notice that at this stage if Kakadu sdk is absent we will not be able to leverage on JP2 boxes to parse georeferencing information, but we will simply look for prj and world file.
The underlying data access logics will be based on some of the key objects introduced by Simone on its imagemosaic plugin such as RasterManager, RasterLayerRequest, RasterLayerResponse which are preposed to handle any control/logics involving resolutions/envelope/overviews/crop/requests/... management.

Future plans

The idea is to proceed with improvements and tests on the previously introduced concepts/objects in order to extract a base architecture which may be shared by plugins to access coverages.
Example of future tasks during the development of the plugin include:

• gmljp2 parsing
• multiple codestreams access capabilities (Mainly for jpx format)

The Image I/O-Ext project

The Image I/O-Ext project leverages existing native APIs to extend the set of formats that the JAI ImageIO API can read.
Actual version of Image I/O-Ext is 1.0.5.

Outstanding Issues