Symptom:
I would like to import a geotiff into Leapfrog, but the import attempt causes Leapfrog to crash.
Resolution:
There is a size limit of 1 GB for the in-memory size of images when open in Geo.
The solution is to resize or crop the image. Alternatively, you may slice the TIFF into tiles to import individually without any loss in quality.
Root Cause:
The in-memory size of the image differs from the file size of the image. The in-memory size can be calculated based on the image (pixel) width * (pixel) height * number of channels, with each value represented as a byte; therefore, the total number of bytes needs to be less than 1,073,741,824MB or 1 GB.