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GDAL

GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an MIT style Open Source License by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.

Raster drivers

  • AAIGrid -- Arc/Info ASCII Grid
  • ACE2 -- ACE2
  • ADRG -- ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
  • AIG -- Arc/Info Binary Grid
  • AIRSAR -- AIRSAR Polarimetric Format
  • AVIF -- AV1 Image File Format
  • BAG -- Bathymetry Attributed Grid
  • BASISU -- Basis Universal
  • BLX -- Magellan BLX Topo File Format
  • BMP -- Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
  • BSB -- Maptech/NOAA BSB Nautical Chart Format
  • BT -- VTP .bt Binary Terrain Format
  • BYN - Natural Resources Canada's Geoid file format (.byn)
  • CAD -- AutoCAD DWG raster layer
  • CALS -- CALS Type 1
  • CEOS -- CEOS Image
  • COASP -- DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
  • COG -- Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF generator
  • COSAR -- TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product
  • CPG -- Convair PolGASP data
  • CTable2 -- CTable2 Datum Grid Shift
  • CTG -- USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid
  • DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver)
  • DDS -- DirectDraw Surface
  • DERIVED -- Derived subdatasets driver
  • DIMAP -- Spot DIMAP
  • DIPEx -- ELAS DIPEx
  • DOQ1 -- First Generation USGS DOQ
  • DOQ2 -- New Labelled USGS DOQ
  • DTED -- Military Elevation Data
  • ECRGTOC -- ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml)
  • ECW -- Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)
  • EEDAI - Google Earth Engine Data API Image
  • EHdr -- ESRI .hdr Labelled
  • EIR -- Erdas Imagine Raw
  • ELAS - Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software
  • ENVI -- ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
  • ESAT -- Envisat Image Product
  • ESRIC -- Esri Compact Cache
  • ERS -- ERMapper .ERS
  • EXR -- Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format
  • FAST -- EOSAT FAST Format
  • FIT -- FIT
  • FITS -- Flexible Image Transport System
  • GenBin -- Generic Binary (.hdr labelled)
  • Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
  • GFF -- Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format
  • GIF -- Graphics Interchange Format
  • GPKG -- GeoPackage raster
  • GRASS Raster Format
  • GRASSASCIIGrid -- GRASS ASCII Grid
  • GRIB -- WMO General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form
  • GS7BG -- Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid File Format
  • GSAG -- Golden Software ASCII Grid File Format
  • GSBG -- Golden Software Binary Grid File Format
  • GSC -- GSC Geogrid
  • GTA - Generic Tagged Arrays
  • GTI -- GDAL Raster Tile Index
  • GTiff -- GeoTIFF File Format
  • GXF -- Grid eXchange File
  • HDF4 -- Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4)
  • HDF5 -- Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)
  • HEIF / HEIC -- ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 High Efficiency Image File Format
  • HF2 -- HF2/HFZ heightfield raster
  • HFA -- Erdas Imagine .img
  • RST -- Idrisi Raster Format
  • ILWIS -- Raster Map
  • IRIS -- Vaisala's weather radar software format
  • ISCE -- ISCE
  • ISG -- International Service for the Geoid
  • ISIS2 -- USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 2)
  • ISIS3 -- USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3)
  • JDEM -- Japanese DEM (.mem)
  • JP2ECW -- ERDAS JPEG2000 (.jp2)
  • JP2KAK -- JPEG 2000 (based on Kakadu SDK)
  • JP2Lura -- JPEG2000 driver based on Lurawave library
  • JP2MrSID -- JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK
  • JP2OpenJPEG -- JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library
  • JPEG -- JPEG JFIF File Format
  • JPEGXL -- JPEG-XL File Format
  • JPIPKAK - JPIP Streaming
  • KEA
  • KMLSuperoverlay -- KMLSuperoverlay
  • KRO -- KOLOR Raw format
  • KTX2
  • LAN -- Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS
  • L1B -- NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
  • LCP -- FARSITE v.4 LCP Format
  • Leveller -- Daylon Leveller Heightfield
  • LOSLAS -- NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift
  • MAP -- OziExplorer .MAP
  • MRF -- Meta Raster Format
  • MBTiles
  • MEM -- In Memory Raster
  • MFF -- Vexcel MFF Raster
  • MFF2 -- Vexcel MFF2 Image
  • MrSID -- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
  • MSG -- Meteosat Second Generation
  • MSGN -- Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Native Archive Format (.nat)
  • NDF -- NLAPS Data Format
  • NetCDF: Network Common Data Form
  • NGSGEOID - NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
  • NGW -- NextGIS Web
  • NITF -- National Imagery Transmission Format
  • NOAA_B -- NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b format
  • NSIDCbin -- National Snow and Ice Data Centre Sea Ice Concentrations
  • NTv2 -- NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
  • NWT_GRD/NWT_GRC -- Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format
  • OGCAPI -- OGC API Tiles / Maps / Coverage
  • ESRI File Geodatabase raster (OpenFileGDB)
  • OZI -- OZF2/OZFX3 raster
  • JAXA PALSAR Processed Products
  • PAux -- PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format
  • PCIDSK -- PCI Geomatics Database File
  • PCRaster -- PCRaster raster file format
  • PDF -- Geospatial PDF
  • PDS -- Planetary Data System v3
  • PDS4 -- NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4)
  • PLMosaic (Planet Labs Mosaics API)
  • PNG -- Portable Network Graphics
  • PNM -- Netpbm (.pgm, .ppm)
  • PostGISRaster -- PostGIS Raster driver
  • PHOTOMOD Raster File
  • Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
  • RasterLite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
  • R -- R Object Data Store
  • RDB - RIEGL Database
  • RIK -- Swedish Grid Maps
  • RMF -- Raster Matrix Format
  • ROI_PAC -- ROI_PAC
  • RPFTOC -- Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc)
  • RRASTER -- R Raster
  • RS2 -- RadarSat 2 XML Product
  • S102 -- S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product
  • S104 -- S-104 Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product
  • S111 -- S-111 Surface Currents Product
  • SAFE -- Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product
  • SAR_CEOS -- CEOS SAR Image
  • SAGA -- SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format
  • SDTS -- USGS SDTS DEM
  • SENTINEL2 -- Sentinel-2 Products
  • SGI -- SGI Image Format
  • SIGDEM -- Scaled Integer Gridded DEM
  • SNAP_TIFF -- Sentinel Application Processing GeoTIFF
  • SNODAS -- Snow Data Assimilation System
  • SRP -- Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen)
  • SRTMHGT -- SRTM HGT Format
  • STACIT - Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items
  • STACTA - Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
  • Terragen -- Terragen™ Terrain File
  • TGA -- TARGA Image File Format
  • TIL -- EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
  • TileDB - TileDB raster
  • TSX -- TerraSAR-X Product
  • USGSDEM -- USGS ASCII DEM (and CDED)
  • VICAR -- VICAR
  • VRT -- GDAL Virtual Format
  • WCS -- OGC Web Coverage Service
  • WEBP - WEBP
  • WMS -- Web Map Services
  • WMTS -- OGC Web Map Tile Service
  • XPM -- X11 Pixmap
  • XYZ -- ASCII Gridded XYZ
  • Zarr
  • ZMap -- ZMap Plus Grid

Vector drivers

  • AmigoCloud
  • (Geo)Arrow IPC File Format / Stream
  • Arc/Info Binary Coverage
  • Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage
  • CAD -- AutoCAD DWG
  • Carto
  • Comma Separated Value (.csv)
  • CSW - OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web)
  • Microstation DGN
  • Microstation DGN v8
  • AutoCAD DWG
  • AutoCAD DXF
  • Google Earth Engine Data API
  • EDIGEO
  • Elasticsearch: Geographically Encoded Objects for Elasticsearch
  • ESRIJSON / FeatureService driver
  • ESRI File Geodatabase (FileGDB)
  • FlatGeobuf
  • GeoConcept text export
  • GeoJSON
  • GeoJSONSeq: sequence of GeoJSON features
  • GeoRSS : Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
  • GML - Geography Markup Language
  • GMLAS - Geography Markup Language (GML) driven by application schemas
  • GMT ASCII Vectors (.gmt)
  • GPKG -- GeoPackage vector
  • GPSBabel
  • GPX - GPS Exchange Format
  • GRASS Vector Format
  • GTFS - General Transit Feed Specification
  • SAP HANA
  • IDB
  • Idrisi Vector (.VCT)
  • "INTERLIS 1" and "INTERLIS 2" drivers
  • JML: OpenJUMP JML format
  • JSONFG -- OGC Features and Geometries JSON
  • KML - Keyhole Markup Language
  • LIBKML Driver (.kml .kmz)
  • Dutch Kadaster LV BAG 2.0 Extract
  • MapML
  • Memory
  • MiraMon Vector
  • MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID
  • MongoDBv3
  • MSSQLSpatial - Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Database
  • MVT: Mapbox Vector Tiles
  • MySQL
  • NAS - ALKIS
  • NetCDF: Network Common Data Form - Vector
  • NGW -- NextGIS Web
  • UK .NTF
  • OGC API - Features
  • Oracle Spatial
  • ODBC RDBMS
  • ODS - Open Document Spreadsheet
  • OGDI Vectors
  • ESRI File Geodatabase vector (OpenFileGDB)
  • OSM - OpenStreetMap XML and PBF
  • (Geo)Parquet
  • PDF -- Geospatial PDF
  • PDS - Planetary Data Systems TABLE
  • PostgreSQL SQL Dump
  • ESRI Personal GeoDatabase
  • PostgreSQL / PostGIS
  • PLScenes (Planet Labs Scenes/Catalog API)
  • PMTiles -- ProtoMaps Tiles
  • IHO S-57 (ENC)
  • SDTS
  • Selafin files
  • ESRI Shapefile / DBF
  • Norwegian SOSI Standard
  • SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS
  • SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
  • Storage and eXchange Format - SXF
  • U.S. Census TIGER/Line
  • TileDB -- TileDB vector
  • TopoJSON driver
  • VDV - VDV-451/VDV-452/INTREST Data Format
  • VFK - Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format
  • VRT -- Virtual Format
  • WAsP - WAsP .map format
  • WFS - OGC WFS service
  • XLS - MS Excel format
  • XLSX - MS Office Open XML spreadsheet
  • XODR -- OpenDRIVE Road Description Format

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