[fitsbits] Re: FITS vs. TIFF (or other image formats)

[Rick Armstrong]

> As I tried to answer personally to Rick Armstrong this morning (but the
> mesage was rejected

My apologies, Lucio. I'm hyper-careful about disseminating my email adress
and I should probably use a bogus email address that is more obviously
bogus.

> Astronomers use FITS because they are
> interested in the exact measure content :

Yes, Dr. Pence explained this to me. I'm storing 8-bit unsigned char
("greyscale") images, so FITS is probably overkill for my application as far
as precision is concerned.

> For instance some of them
> use lossy compression algorithms

I need lossless compression, too. The "images" that I'm storing are actually
"height fields" (like a topographical map).

Rick