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ECW

ECW

Enhanced Compressed Wavelet. Lossy compression technique used to compress digital image files and able to compress between 10:1 and 50:1. Typically used to compress aerial and satellite images.

Enhanced Compressed Wavelet files are denoted by the file extension .ecw.

Relevant links:

www.ermapper.com/products/ecw/ecw_body.htm - Introduction to ECW v2.0, includes links to free C/C++ library for decompressing ECW files.

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