Pitney Bowes Multi-Resolution Raster (MRR) Reader

Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.

The Multi-Resolution Raster (MRR) provides FME with access to data in the MRR format.

Overview

The Multi-Resolution Raster (MRR) format was developed by Pitney Bowes as a unifying format, intended to encompass all types of raster data, such as image, classified, discrete, and continuous. Some key benefits of the MRR format:

• Provides industry-standard compression techniques and predictive encoding techniques to minimize storage requirements and provide efficient data access to extremely large raster/grid datasets.
• Stores numeric gridded data, imagery and classified (thematic) data.
• Allows sparse data to be easily accessed and updated, without the need to store values for regions that do not contain data.

Reader Overview

FME considers a single MRR file to be a dataset.

FME Raster Features

FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data. The topics below describe how FME processes raster data.

About FME Rasters	Tiling and Mosaicking
Raster Properties	Band Combining and Separating
Band Properties	Band and Palette Selection
Palette Properties	Raster Processing
Compression	Raster versus Vector Features
Pyramiding	Raster File Naming
Interleaving	World Files
Interpretation and Data Type	TAB Files
Palette Resolution

MRR datasets store one or more multi-banded fields.