Observed arrival · 2026-09-05

Klar: a native-depth viewer for enormous imagery

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Klar is a desktop viewer for NITF and GeoTIFF imagery, built to open gigapixel scenes and adjust them without repeatedly decoding the pixels.

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The viewer separates image decoding from display adjustment: tiles are decoded once, uploaded at native depth, and then manipulated through shader parameters. The page cites a 16,000-pixel GeoTIFF example, 16-bit GPU handling, and an LRU residency budget. Its deployment model is explicitly offline-friendly, with a bundled GDAL runtime and support for local files, URLs, and on-premises S3.

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