We recently received hundreds of .tif images for a countywide imagery project. Ultimately, we will be building a mosaic dataset out of these images. It is unlikely that users will be accessing the individual .tif images, but rather they'd be accessing the mosaic to view the complete imagery package.
My question is: is it worth our time (and disk space) to build pyramids on the individual .tif images? Will there be any performance gain on the mosaic if pyramids are built in addition to the overviews that we already plan on creating?
