# Tif file images

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-file-images/9468>\
**Category:** Kelp Wanted: Segmenting Kelp Forests\
**Created:** [December 4, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-file-images/9468 "2023-12-04T14:28:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![briangilbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@briangilbert](https://community.drivendata.org/u/briangilbert)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-file-images/9468/1 "2023-12-04T14:28:20Z")

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Tif file images are not opening on my windows machine

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**Author:** ![cszc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cszc](https://community.drivendata.org/u/cszc)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-file-images/9468/2 "2023-12-04T16:13:52Z")

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Hi @briangilbert. Is this in relation to the Kelp Wanted competition? If so, you may have better luck posting in the [Kelp Wanted Forum](https://community.drivendata.org/c/mathworks-kelp-segmentation/100). Other competitors may be able to help you.

Can you describe your problem with more detail? The TIFFs in the Kelp Wanted competition are multiband geotiffs, with some bands containing 16-bit values, so they will not render like a normal image. You can use a modules like rasterio or rioxarray in Python to read the values, or the [HyperSpectral Viewer in MATLAB](https://drivendata.co/blog/kelp-wanted-benchmark) to view the images. Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![briangilbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@briangilbert](https://community.drivendata.org/u/briangilbert)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tif-file-images/9468/3 "2023-12-04T17:44:52Z")

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thank you. you have answered my query