geotiff viewer works if data has (10,-10) resolution but not if (10,10)

[clausmichele]

I guess this is a bug.
When using the Eurac back-end, the result of this graph is showed correctly:

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        "id": "S2_L2A_T32TPS",
        "bands": [
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          "B03_10m",
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this instead, where the result comes from a different collection, shows just a black box. The difference between the two geotiffs is the resolution, which on the not working one is (10,10) instead of (10,-10).

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                },
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              }
            }
          }
        },
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        }
      }
    },
    "loadcollection1": {
      "process_id": "load_collection",
      "arguments": {
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        ],
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          "north": 46.50385828131181,
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        },
        "id": "S2_L2A_ALPS",
        "bands": [
          "B04",
          "B03",
          "B02"
        ]
      }
    },
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          }
        },
        "dimension": "t"
      }
    },
    "saveresult1": {
      "result": true,
      "process_id": "save_result",
      "arguments": {
        "data": {
          "from_node": "apply1"
        },
        "format": "GTIFF"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fixing the collection resolution solves the issue, but I wonder if it shouldn't cause a problem in the viewer.

[clausmichele]

In the meanwhile I applied a workaround, to make sure that the y dimension has decreasing values and therefore negative resolution: Open-EO/openeo_odc_driver@d865cfb
Now it works fine on our back-end, but maybe we should still address this issue.

[m-mohr]

Thanks Michele. Can you send me an example file for testing purposes? I assume this is an upstream issue in OL or geotiff.js and I'll need to provide an example if I open an issue with them.

[clausmichele]

Sure! Not working:

Working:

tiff_samples.zip

[m-mohr]

@clausmichele I've just tested this in pure OpenLayers and it also doesn't work there so this is an upstream issue.
I'm just wondering what does a negative resolution mean? Is that valid? Anyway, this is something to report to the openlayers guys...

[clausmichele]

In this case the positive resolution for y is the issue. Anyway, most of the time there is a positive resolution along x and a negative along y. However, a geoTIFF can contain theoretically any combination of them.

[m-mohr]

Okay, I've submitted a bug report: openlayers/openlayers#14238

[m-mohr]

Looks like a bug in geotiff.js: geotiffjs/geotiff.js#337