File Extension SID

File type: MrSID Image

About the SID file type:

If Windows cannot find the appropriate program associated with .SID files, then your registry may have errors. Check your Windows registry for errors (includes file association errors).

The SID file extension is used as the compressed image format. This file format uses the MrSID or the Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database compression. It was developed by the company LizardTech to compress large image files and to encode geo-referenced raster graphics, like orthophotos. The MrSID application is a wavelet-based, patented file format developed to allow the portability of raster or massive bit-mapped images. The SID file format also utilizes DWT or the discrete wavelet transformations in an ideal fashion on the image data tile subsets. It also stores and keeps the wavelet coefficients in the data structure, supporting the efficient retrieval of the pieces of data in order to generate the specified rectangular zone of the said image at the selected spatial resolution.


Detailed information for file extension SID

Category: Image Files
File format: Propriety
Open with Windows: Web browser running the LizardTech ExpressView (MrSID) Browser Plug-in
Open with Linux: N/A
The data structure of the SID image files is a collection of bitplanes. This bitplanes collection is designed to support the transactions of the image data extraction and delivery.