Abstract: A system and method of storing data related to an image is disclosed. The method may include: storing computed statistical data for pixels of an image; unevenly dividing the image into polygonal image sections where each polygonal image section includes substantially homogenous features; dividing the image into quads such that each quad has boundaries that contain at least a portion of one of the polygonal image sections; storing the original image; storing at least one reduced resolution dataset (RRD or R-set) of the image; and storing data related to a form of a hierarchical tree-based structure that represents the image or the at least one R-set. Each hierarchical tree structure may have a root node that corresponds to the image, branches that correspond to the plurality of quads, and leaf nodes that correspond to polygonal image sections.