Raster drivers¶
Short name |
Long name |
Creation |
Copy |
Geo-referencing |
Build requirements |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arc/Info ASCII Grid |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ACE2 |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Arc/Info Binary Grid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
AIRSAR Polarimetric Format |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Azavea Raster Grid |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Bathymetry Attributed Grid |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
Magellan BLX Topo File Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Better Portable Graphics |
No |
No |
No |
libbpg (manual build required for now) |
|
Maptech/NOAA BSB Nautical Chart Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
VTP .bt Binary Terrain Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Natural Resources Canada’s Geoid file format (.byn) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
AutoCAD DWG raster layer |
No |
No |
Yes |
(internal libopencad provided) |
|
CALS Type 1 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
CEOS Image |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF generator |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Convair PolGASP data |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
CTable2 Datum Grid Shift |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
DB2 raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ODBC (and any or all of PNG, JPEG, WEBP drivers) |
|
DirectDraw Surface |
No |
Yes |
No |
Crunch Lib |
|
Derived subdatasets driver |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Spot DIMAP |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ELAS DIPEx |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OPeNDAP Grid Client |
No |
No |
Yes |
libdap |
|
First Generation USGS DOQ |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
New Labelled USGS DOQ |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Military Elevation Data |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Arc/Info Export E00 GRID |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (.ecw) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ECW SDK |
|
Google Earth Engine Data API Image |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
ESRI .hdr Labelled |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Erdas Imagine Raw |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Wavelet compressed images |
No |
Yes |
No |
epsilon 0.9.1 |
|
ERMapper .ERS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Envisat Image Product |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Esri Compact Cache |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libopenexr |
|
EOSAT FAST Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
FIT |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Flexible Image Transport System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libcfitsio |
|
Fuji BAS Scanner Image |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Generic Binary (.hdr labelled) |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Oracle client libraries |
|
Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Graphics Interchange Format |
No |
Yes |
No |
(internal GIF library provided) |
|
GMT Compatible netCDF |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libnetcdf |
|
GeoPackage raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 (and any or all of PNG, JPEG, WEBP drivers) |
|
GRASS Raster Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
libgrass |
|
GRASS ASCII Grid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
WMO General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Golden Software ASCII Grid File Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Golden Software Binary Grid File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GSC Geogrid |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Generic Tagged Arrays |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libgta |
|
GeoTIFF File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Grid eXchange File |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libdf |
|
Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 High Efficiency Image File Format |
No |
No |
No |
libheif (>= 1.1), built against libde265 |
|
HF2/HFZ heightfield raster |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Erdas Imagine .img |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Image Display and Analysis |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Idrisi Raster Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
IGN-France height correction ASCII grids |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Raster Map |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Intergraph Raster Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Vaisala’s weather radar software format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ISCE |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
International Service for the Geoid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 2) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Japanese DEM (.mem) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ERDAS JPEG2000 (.jp2) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ECW SDK |
|
JPEG-2000 (based on Kakadu) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Kakadu library |
|
JPEG2000 driver based on Lurawave library |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Lurawave library |
|
JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
MrSID SDK |
|
JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
openjpeg >= 2.1 |
|
JPEG JFIF File Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
(internal libjpeg provided) |
|
Implementation of the JPEG-2000 part 1 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libjasper |
|
JPEGLS |
No |
Yes |
No |
CharLS library |
|
JPIP Streaming |
No |
No |
Yes |
Kakadu library |
|
KEA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libkea and libhdf5 libraries |
|
KMLSuperoverlay |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
KOLOR Raw format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
FARSITE v.4 LCP Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Daylon Leveller Heightfield |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OziExplorer .MAP |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Meta Raster Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
MBTiles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 |
|
In Memory Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Vexcel MFF Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Vexcel MFF2 Image |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
MrSID/MG4 LiDAR Compression / Point Cloud View files |
No |
No |
No |
LIDAR SDK |
|
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database |
No |
No |
Yes |
MrSID SDK |
|
Meteosat Second Generation |
No |
No |
Yes |
msg library |
|
Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Native Archive Format (.nat) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NLAPS Data Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NetCDF: Network Common Data Form |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libnetcdf |
|
NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NextGIS Web |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
National Imagery Transmission Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NTv1 Datum Grid Shift |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NTv2 Datum Grid Shift |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC API Tiles / Maps |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
OZF2/OZFX3 raster |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
JAXA PALSAR Processed Products |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
PCI Geomatics Database File |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
PCRaster raster file format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
(internal libcf provided) |
|
Geospatial PDF |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
none for write support, Poppler/PoDoFo/PDFium for read support |
|
Planetary Data System v3 |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
PLMosaic (Planet Labs Mosaics API) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
Portable Network Graphics |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Netpbm (.pgm, .ppm) |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
PostGIS Raster driver |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
PostgreSQL library |
|
PHOTOMOD Raster File |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
R Object Data Store |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Rasdaman GDAL driver |
No |
No |
No |
raslib |
|
Rasters in SQLite DB |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 |
|
Rasters in SQLite DB |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3, librasterlite2, libspatialite |
|
RDA (DigitalGlobe Raster Data Access) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
RIEGL Database |
No |
No |
Yes |
rdblib >= 2.2.0. |
|
Swedish Grid Maps |
No |
No |
Yes |
(internal zlib is used if necessary) |
|
Raster Matrix Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ROI_PAC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
R Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
RadarSat 2 XML Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
CEOS SAR Image |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS SDTS DEM |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Sentinel-2 Products |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SGI Image Format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Scaled Integer Gridded DEM |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Snow Data Assimilation System |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SRTM HGT Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Terragen™ Terrain File |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TARGA Image File Format |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TileDB |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
TileDB |
|
TerraSAR-X Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS ASCII DEM (and CDED) |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
VICAR |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GDAL Virtual Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC Web Coverage Service |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
WEBP |
No |
Yes |
No |
libwebp |
|
Web Map Services |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
OGC Web Map Tile Service |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
X11 Pixmap |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
ASCII Gridded XYZ |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ZMap Plus Grid |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
- AAIGrid -- Arc/Info ASCII Grid
- ACE2 -- ACE2
- ADRG -- ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
- AIG -- Arc/Info Binary Grid
- AIRSAR -- AIRSAR Polarimetric Format
- ARG -- Azavea Raster Grid
- BAG -- Bathymetry Attributed Grid
- BLX -- Magellan BLX Topo File Format
- BMP -- Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
- BPG -- Better Portable Graphics
- 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)
- DB2 raster
- DDS -- DirectDraw Surface
- DERIVED -- Derived subdatasets driver
- DIMAP -- Spot DIMAP
- DIPEx -- ELAS DIPEx
- DODS -- OPeNDAP Grid Client
- DOQ1 -- First Generation USGS DOQ
- DOQ2 -- New Labelled USGS DOQ
- DTED -- Military Elevation Data
- E00GRID -- Arc/Info Export E00 GRID
- 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
- Epsilon - Wavelet compressed images
- 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
- FujiBAS -- Fuji BAS Scanner Image
- GenBin -- Generic Binary (.hdr labelled)
- Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
- GFF -- Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format
- GIF -- Graphics Interchange Format
- GMT -- GMT Compatible netCDF
- 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
- 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
- IDA -- Image Display and Analysis
- RST -- Idrisi Raster Format
- IGNFHeightASCIIGrid -- IGN-France height correction ASCII grids
- ILWIS -- Raster Map
- INGR -- Intergraph Raster Format
- 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)
- JP2Lura -- JPEG2000 driver based on Lurawave library
- JP2MrSID -- JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK
- JP2OpenJPEG -- JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library
- JPEG2000 -- Implementation of the JPEG-2000 part 1
- JPEGLS
- JPEG -- JPEG JFIF File Format
- JPIPKAK - JPIP Streaming
- KEA
- KMLSuperoverlay -- KMLSuperoverlay
- KRO -- KOLOR Raw format
- 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
- MG4Lidar -- MrSID/MG4 LiDAR Compression / Point Cloud View files
- 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
- NTv1 -- NTv1 Datum Grid Shift
- NTv2 -- NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
- NWT_GRD/NWT_GRC -- Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format
- OGCAPI -- OGC API Tiles / Maps
- 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
- Rasdaman GDAL driver
- Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
- RasterLite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
- R -- R Object Data Store
- RDA (DigitalGlobe Raster Data Access)
- 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
- 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
- SNODAS -- Snow Data Assimilation System
- SRP -- Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen)
- SRTMHGT -- SRTM HGT Format
- Terragen -- Terragen™ Terrain File
- TGA -- TARGA Image File Format
- TIL -- EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
- TileDB - TileDB
- 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
- ZMap -- ZMap Plus Grid