The Tiling Engine is a service that organizes geospatial source data in a hierarchical tile structure, called a coverage. This organization into a multi-leveled tile pyramid is called fusion, and optimizes access to the data for the purpose of querying, visualization, and analysis.
The Tiling Engine consists of API that allows you to optimize imagery, elevation, and multi-dimensional data in a pre-processing step. It takes your data, and turns it into a high-performance tile pyramid repository on disk. The resulting multi-leveled coverages allow for a much smoother visualization and analysis experience in Luciad products as well as other OGC clients.
Multi-leveling and tiling data offers advantages in cases similar to these:
The tiles can be stored as individual coverages, or as part of a Tile Store. A Tile Store is a logical structure combining various coverages.