Extensis MrSID Reader

The MrSID reader allows FME to read data in the MrSID format1.

With the MrSID format, large raster image files such as aerial photographs or satellite imagery are compressed and can be quickly viewed without having to decompress the entire file.

Extensis MrSID Product and System Requirements

Format

FME Platform

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Form

FME Flow

FME Flow Hosted

Windows 64-bit

Linux

Mac

Reader

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Reader Overview

FME considers a single MrSID file to be a dataset.

MrSID files contain pixel data. Each pixel in the file is a point in a single FME raster feature.

FME Raster Features

FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data.

For comprehensive information about how FME processes raster data, see Rasters.