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 | Extension |
|---|
| VRT | Virtual Raster | vrt |
| GTiff | GeoTIFF | tif |
| NITF | National Imagery Transmission Format | ntf |
| RPFTOC | Raster Product Format TOC format | toc |
| HFA | Erdas Imagine Images (.img) | 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) | gff |
| ELAS | ELAS | |
| AIG | Arc/Info Binary Grid | |
| AAIGrid | Arc/Info ASCII Grid | asc |
| SDTS | SDTS Raster | ddf |
| OGDI | OGDI Bridge | |
| DTED | DTED Elevation Raster | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | png |
| JPEG | JPEG JFIF | jpg |
| MEM | In Memory Raster | |
| JDEM | Japanese DEM (.mem) | mem |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | gif |
| BIGGIF | Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | gif |
| ESAT | Envisat Image Format | n1 |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | |
| XPM | X11 PixMap Format | xpm |
| BMP | MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap | bmp |
| DIMAP | SPOT DIMAP | |
| AirSAR | AirSAR Polarimetric Image | |
| RS2 | RadarSat 2 XML Product | |
| PCIDSK | PCIDSK Database File | pix |
| PCRaster | PCRaster Raster File | map |
| ILWIS | ILWIS Raster Map | mpr/mpl |
| SGI | SGI Image File Format 1.0 | rgb |
| SRTMHGT | SRTMHGT File Format | hgt |
| Leveller | Leveller heightfield | ter |
| Terragen | Terragen heightfield | ter |
| GMT | GMT NetCDF Grid Format | nc |
| netCDF | Network Common Data Format | nc |
| 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) | jp2 |
| L1B | NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set | |
| FIT | FIT Image | |
| GRIB | GRIdded Binary (.grb) | grb |
| RMF | Raster Matrix Format | rsw |
| WCS | OGC Web Coverage Service | |
| WMS | OGC Web Map Service | |
| MSGN | EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) | nat |
| RST | Idrisi Raster A.1 | rst |
| INGR | Intergraph Raster | |
| GSAG | Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) | grd |
| GSBG | Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) | grd |
| GS7BG | Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) | grd |
| COSAR | COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X) | |
| TSX | TerraSAR-X Product | |
| COASP | DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster | hdr |
| R | R Object Data Store | rda |
| PNM | Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) | pnm |
| 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 | hdr |
| 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 | bt |
| 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) | lcp |
| RIK | Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) | rik |
| USGSDEM | USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) | dem |
| GXF | GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format | gxf |
| DODS | DAP 3.x servers | |
| HTTP | HTTP Fetching Wrapper | |
| BAG | Bathymetry Attributed Grid | |
| HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 | hdf5 |
| HDF5Image | HDF5 Dataset | |
| NWT_GRD | Northwood Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab | grd |
| NWT_GRC | Northwood Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab | grc |
| ADRG | ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | gen |
| SRP | Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP) | img |
| BLX | Magellan topo (.blx) | blx |
| Rasterlite | Rasterlite | sqlite |
| WKTRaster | PostGIS WKT Raster driver | |
| SAGA | SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat) | sdat |