Function translate_to_cog

pub fn translate_to_cog(
    src: &Path,
    dst: &Path,
    compression: &str,
    overview_resampling: &str,
) -> Result<()>

Translates an existing GeoTIFF to a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF.

Uses GDAL’s COG driver in-process via Dataset::create_copy() — equivalent to rioxarray’s driver="COG" approach. The COG driver handles:

• IFD reordering (overviews before full-res data)
• Ghost area for HTTP range requests
• Tile leader/trailer bytes for parallel HTTP access
• Automatic overview generation via OVERVIEWS=AUTO

This replaces the previous subprocess-based gdal_translate -of COG which loaded the entire file into memory (OOM risk for large files).

Arguments

• src - Source GeoTIFF path
• dst - Destination COG path
• compression - Compression algorithm, e.g. “LZW”, “DEFLATE”, “ZSTD”
• overview_resampling - Resampling method for auto-generated overviews