The "GDAL Raster Import" module imports grid data from various file formats using the "Geospatial Data Abstraction Library" (GDAL) by Frank Warmerdam. For more information have a look at the GDAL homepage:
    http://www.gdal.org
GDAL Version:1.7.3
Following raster formats are currently supported:
| ID | Name | 
|---|
| VRT | Virtual Raster | 
| GTiff | GeoTIFF | 
| NITF | National Imagery Transmission Format | 
| RPFTOC | Raster Product Format TOC format | 
| HFA | Erdas Imagine Images (.img) | 
| SAR_CEOS | CEOS SAR Image | 
| CEOS | CEOS Image | 
| JAXAPALSAR | JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) | 
| GFF | Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff) | 
| ELAS | ELAS | 
| AIG | Arc/Info Binary Grid | 
| AAIGrid | Arc/Info ASCII Grid | 
| SDTS | SDTS Raster | 
| OGDI | OGDI Bridge | 
| DTED | DTED Elevation Raster | 
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | 
| JPEG | JPEG JFIF | 
| MEM | In Memory Raster | 
| JDEM | Japanese DEM (.mem) | 
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | 
| BIGGIF | Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | 
| ESAT | Envisat Image Format | 
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | 
| XPM | X11 PixMap Format | 
| BMP | MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap | 
| DIMAP | SPOT DIMAP | 
| AirSAR | AirSAR Polarimetric Image | 
| RS2 | RadarSat 2 XML Product | 
| PCIDSK | PCIDSK Database File | 
| PCRaster | PCRaster Raster File | 
| ILWIS | ILWIS Raster Map | 
| SGI | SGI Image File Format 1.0 | 
| SRTMHGT | SRTMHGT File Format | 
| Leveller | Leveller heightfield | 
| Terragen | Terragen heightfield | 
| GMT | GMT NetCDF Grid Format | 
| netCDF | Network Common Data Format | 
| HDF4 | Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 | 
| HDF4Image | HDF4 Dataset | 
| ISIS3 | USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) | 
| ISIS2 | USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) | 
| PDS | NASA Planetary Data System | 
| TIL | EarthWatch .TIL | 
| ERS | ERMapper .ers Labelled | 
| JPEG2000 | JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1) | 
| L1B | NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set | 
| FIT | FIT Image | 
| GRIB | GRIdded Binary (.grb) | 
| RMF | Raster Matrix Format | 
| WCS | OGC Web Coverage Service | 
| WMS | OGC Web Map Service | 
| MSGN | EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) | 
| RST | Idrisi Raster A.1 | 
| INGR | Intergraph Raster | 
| GSAG | Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) | 
| GSBG | Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) | 
| GS7BG | Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) | 
| COSAR | COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X) | 
| TSX | TerraSAR-X Product | 
| COASP | DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster | 
| R | R Object Data Store | 
| PNM | Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) | 
| DOQ1 | USGS DOQ (Old Style) | 
| DOQ2 | USGS DOQ (New Style) | 
| ENVI | ENVI .hdr Labelled | 
| EHdr | ESRI .hdr Labelled | 
| GenBin | Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) | 
| PAux | PCI .aux Labelled | 
| MFF | Vexcel MFF Raster | 
| MFF2 | Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster | 
| FujiBAS | Fuji BAS Scanner Image | 
| GSC | GSC Geogrid | 
| FAST | EOSAT FAST Format | 
| BT | VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format | 
| LAN | Erdas .LAN/.GIS | 
| CPG | Convair PolGASP | 
| IDA | Image Data and Analysis | 
| NDF | NLAPS Data Format | 
| EIR | Erdas Imagine Raw | 
| DIPEx | DIPEx | 
| LCP | FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) | 
| RIK | Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) | 
| USGSDEM | USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) | 
| GXF | GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format | 
| DODS | DAP 3.x servers | 
| HTTP | HTTP Fetching Wrapper | 
| BAG | Bathymetry Attributed Grid | 
| HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 | 
| HDF5Image | HDF5 Dataset | 
| NWT_GRD | Northwood Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab | 
| NWT_GRC | Northwood Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab | 
| ADRG | ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | 
| SRP | Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP) | 
| BLX | Magellan topo (.blx) | 
| Rasterlite | Rasterlite | 
| WKTRaster | PostGIS WKT Raster driver | 
| SAGA | SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat) |