Adding support for mrsid and other raster data formats in geoserver

Adding support for mrsid and other raster data formats in geoserverPosted in geoserver by galipaydin on August 1, 2010

I recently obtained a mrsid encoded satellite image for part of Elazig region and wanted to add this as a layer on geoserver. however the original geoserver installation does not have the capability to process and show mrsid image format. so I did a bit of googling and found out that I had to install gdal libraries.

First grab a copy of The ImageIO-ext Binary Package from here ImageIO-ext and install it.

Create the gdal_data environment variable; in my case the gdal_data points to c: \ Program Files \ ImageIO-ext \ gdaldata

Then restart the geoserver and go to stores-> Add new store, And You shoshould see the new raster data formats added to the List.

From: http://galipaydin.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/adding-support-for-mrsid-and-other-raster-data-formats-in-geoserver/