I did something similar once for a mining technique called “core logging”. It’s a single photo about 1000 pixels wide and several million “deep”: what the earth looks like for a few km down.
Existing solutions are all complicated and clunky, I put something together with S3 and bastardised CoGeoTIFF, instant view of any part of the image.
I'm curious about the "core logging" photo. Where can I find one? Do you have an implementation of your solution? I would be curious to have a look at it.
I don't know enough about the science side to take it any further on my own.
The "tech" part of what I started building is really quite simple: convert the images to Cloud-optimised GeoTIFF, then do range requests to S3 from the browser.
Might not be possible to find any, they’re expensive and niche. If you reach out (email in profile) I can show/share how it works (nothing currently public).
Existing solutions are all complicated and clunky, I put something together with S3 and bastardised CoGeoTIFF, instant view of any part of the image.
Wish I knew how to commercialise it…