diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bfe37e179..1bc74f2d7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 - [#667](https://github.com/LayerManager/layman/issues/667) Fix broken statistics during normalization of float rasters with big nodata value.
 - [#668](https://github.com/LayerManager/layman/issues/668) Fix broken size of raster in EPSG:3034 during normalization.
 - [#669](https://github.com/LayerManager/layman/issues/669) Fix slow publication of vector layers metadata to Micka. The reason was slow guessing of [`spatial_resolution.scale_denominator`](doc/metadata.md#spatial_resolution) metadata property.
+- [#697](https://github.com/LayerManager/layman/issues/697) Normalized GeoTIFF files are created as BigTIFF
 
 ## v1.17.0
  2022-07-21
diff --git a/doc/data-storage.md b/doc/data-storage.md
index ddaca4db5..4d8c825c2 100644
--- a/doc/data-storage.md
+++ b/doc/data-storage.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Subsequently, asynchronous tasks ensure following steps:
 - data file chunks and completed data files are saved to [filesystem](#filesystem) (if sent [asynchronously](async-file-upload.md))
 - vector data files are imported to [PostgreSQL](#postgresql)
    - PostgreSQL table with vector data is registered to [GeoServer](#geoserver)
-- raster files are normalized and compressed to GeoTIFF with overviews (pyramids)
+- raster files are normalized and compressed to BigTIFF GeoTIFF with overviews (pyramids)
    - normalized GeoTIFF is registered to [GeoServer](#geoserver)
 - SLD file is saved to [GeoServer](#geoserver) and registered to WMS layer
 - QGS file is created on [filesystem](#filesystem) and through QGIS server registered to [GeoServer](#geoserver)
diff --git a/src/layman/layer/filesystem/gdal.py b/src/layman/layer/filesystem/gdal.py
index 912a45d88..ce90f7f0a 100644
--- a/src/layman/layer/filesystem/gdal.py
+++ b/src/layman/layer/filesystem/gdal.py
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ def compress_and_mask_raster_file_async(*, output_file, input_file_path, color_i
     bash_args = [
         'gdal_translate',
         '-co', 'compress=lzw',
+        '-co', 'BIGTIFF=YES',
     ]
 
     # GeoServer can visualize grayscale raster with partial opacity from alpha band, but it has unstable contrast.