geotiffwrite and tilewidth

Hi everyone.

I'm using Matlab to work on aerial images. Those images are pretty large (i.e. 16757 x 27479 pixels).

I read them using geotiffread which works fine. However, when I'm trying to use geotiffwrite, I get the following error:


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Error using tifflib
2048 is the largest supported TileWidth or TileLength dimension.

Error in Tiff/setTag (line 1131)
                            tifflib('setField',obj.FileID, ...

Error in geotiffwrite>writeGeoTiffFile (line 1416)
t.setTag(TiffTags);

Error in geotiffwrite (line 250)
writeGeoTiffFile(filename, A, TiffTags, GeoTiffTags);
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So I'm guessing the problem comes from the fact that geotiffwrite has problem handling such big geotiff file.

Anyone has suggestions?

With regards,
Phil