Strip

A baseline TIFF image is composed of one or more strips. A strip or band is a subsection of the image composed of one or more horizontal rows of pixels. Each strip may be compressed independently of the entire image, where each begins on a byte boundary. If the image height is not evenly divisible by the number of rows in the strip, the last strip may contain fewer rows. If strip definition tags are omitted, the image is assumed to contain a single strip.

In case of a single-strip TIFF file, a bitmap is stored in one large block. In case of a multi-strip TIFF file, the horizontal blocks of the image are stored together.