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Creating a test image

For raster images, you can create test images to test an image manipulation or compression operation without using data from the data cartridge. Test images are output images that have a visible watermark.

You can create test images from raster images and mosaics, but not LiDAR point clouds.

For example, to create a test encode of the image foo.tiff, use this syntax:

mrsidgeoencoder -i foo.tiff -testencode -o foo.sid

You can use the test encode function in combination with any other encode settings such as mosaic, compression ratio, and cropping.