Satellite imagery compression in Unity

Compress imagery for low bandwidth environments

By: Camilla Mahon

Satellite imagery in the Maps SDK for Unity streams as JPEGs with optimized compression settings. Developers can specify the level of image compression manually or gauge bandwidth by testing the download speed of a sample tile and adjusting compression automatically.

Here’s a breakdown of tile sizes by compression level:

Read more about image compression options in our API documentation and try our Maps SDK for Unity for yourself.

Camilla Mahon