Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a library for reading and writing raster geospatial data formats, it is released under license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. (http://www.osgeo.org/).

SIS uses GDAL to provide a single data abstract model for reading and exporting the majority of raster formats supported. More information can be found at http://www.gdal.org/ and http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html

Compatibility:

GDAL formats supported in SIS:

GDAL Code Description
AAIGrid ArcInfo ASCII Grid
ADRG Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
AIG Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf)
BSB NOAA/MAPTECH/NDI/Softchart BSB
BT Binary Terrain Format
DIMAP SPOT Digital Image Map
DOQ1 USGS Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (old)
DOQ2 USGS Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (new)
DTED Digital Terrain Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2)
ENVI ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
EHdr ESRI .hdr Labelled (Supports BIL/BIP/BSQ based datasets)
ERS ER Mapper
ESAT Envisat Image Product (.n1)
FAST EOSAT FAST Format
GIF Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
GMT GMT Compatible netCDF grid format (*.grd) (only on x32 not in x64)
GS7BG Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid
GSAG Golden Software ASCII Grid
GSBG Golden Software Binary Grid
GTiff GeoTiff
GXF GXF - Grid eXchange File
HDF4 Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4) (only on x32 not in x64)
HDF4Image (only on x32 not in x64)
HDF5 Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5) (only on x32 not in x64)
HDF5Image (only on x32 not in x64)
HFA ERDAS Imagine
INGR Intergraph Raster
ILWIS ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl) 
JAXAPALSAR JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5)
JDEM Japanese DEM (.mem)
JP2KAK JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG JPEG JFIF (.jpg)
L1B NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
MEM In Memory Raster (In-memory: has an auxiliary role in warping operations.)
MFF Vexcel MFF
netCDF NetCDF (only on x32 not in x64)
NITF NITF
NWT_GRD Northwood/VerticalMapper Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab
PAux PCI .aux Labelled
PCIDSK PCI Geomatics Database File
PNG Portable Network Graphics (.png)
Rasterlite Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
RPFTOC Raster Product Format/RPF (CADRG, CIB)
SAR_CEOS SAR CEOS
SDTS USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SRTMHGT SRTM HGT Format
USGSDEM USGS ASCII DEM / CDED (.dem)
VRT GDAL Virtual (.vrt)

See full list of Dataset Formats

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