[Geotools-gt2-users] How to open a large tiff

[Adrian C. <ac...@gm...>]

Hey all,

I'm trying to digest a 1/2 global land cover tiff. The source is:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/LCC/
and the specific file is
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/LCC/Images/lcc_east_1km.tif

nothing on my machine can open this file. Is there a way to add the
location information to the file so uDig can open it? Also, is there a
way to pre-tile the file into one of those image pyramids I keep hearing
about? 

thanks,
adrian