Raster File Formats

GMS, SMS and WMS can import most raster file formats as supported by the GDAL library. This includes:

• 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
• ERS – ERMapper .ERS
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• NGSGEOID – NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
• NGW – NextGIS Web
• NITF – National Imagery Transmission Format
• NTv1 – NTv1 Datum Grid Shift
• 8NTv2 – NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
• NWT_GRD/NWT_GRC – Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format
• 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
• ESRI ArcSDE Raster
• 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
• 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

Related Topics

• Raster Options