The "GDAL Raster Import" tool imports grid data from various file formats using the "Geospatial Data Abstraction Library" (GDAL) by Frank Warmerdam.
GDAL Version:3.6.2
Following raster formats are currently supported:
| ID | Name | Extension |
|---|
| ECW | ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 5.5) | ecw |
| JP2ECW | ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 5.5) | jp2 |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | |
| HDF4 | Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 | hdf |
| HDF4Image | HDF4 Dataset | |
| HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 | |
| HDF5Image | HDF5 Dataset | |
| BAG | Bathymetry Attributed Grid | bag |
| KEA | KEA Image Format (.kea) | kea |
| netCDF | Network Common Data Format | nc |
| PDF | Geospatial PDF | pdf |
| VRT | Virtual Raster | vrt |
| DERIVED | Derived datasets using VRT pixel functions | |
| GTiff | GeoTIFF | tif |
| NITF | National Imagery Transmission Format | ntf |
| RPFTOC | Raster Product Format TOC format | toc |
| ECRGTOC | ECRG TOC format | xml |
| 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 | |
| ESRIC | Esri Compact Cache | |
| AIG | Arc/Info Binary Grid | |
| AAIGrid | Arc/Info ASCII Grid | asc |
| GRASSASCIIGrid | GRASS ASCII Grid | |
| ISG | International Service for the Geoid | isg |
| SDTS | SDTS Raster | ddf |
| 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 |
| BSB | Maptech BSB Nautical Charts | kap |
| XPM | X11 PixMap Format | xpm |
| BMP | MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap | bmp |
| DIMAP | SPOT DIMAP | |
| AirSAR | AirSAR Polarimetric Image | |
| RS2 | RadarSat 2 XML Product | |
| SAFE | Sentinel-1 SAR SAFE Product | |
| PCIDSK | PCIDSK Database File | pix |
| PCRaster | PCRaster Raster File | map |
| ILWIS | ILWIS Raster Map | |
| SGI | SGI Image File Format 1.0 | rgb |
| SRTMHGT | SRTMHGT File Format | hgt |
| Leveller | Leveller heightfield | ter |
| Terragen | Terragen heightfield | ter |
| ISIS3 | USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) | |
| ISIS2 | USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) | |
| PDS | NASA Planetary Data System | |
| PDS4 | NASA Planetary Data System 4 | xml |
| VICAR | MIPL VICAR file | |
| TIL | EarthWatch .TIL | |
| ERS | ERMapper .ers Labelled | ers |
| JP2OpenJPEG | JPEG-2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library | jp2 |
| L1B | NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set | |
| FIT | FIT Image | |
| GRIB | GRIdded Binary (.grb, .grb2) | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| MAP | OziExplorer .MAP | |
| KMLSUPEROVERLAY | Kml Super Overlay | |
| WEBP | WEBP | webp |
| Rasterlite | Rasterlite | sqlite |
| MBTiles | MBTiles | mbtiles |
| PLMOSAIC | Planet Labs Mosaics API | |
| CALS | CALS (Type 1) | |
| WMTS | OGC Web Map Tile Service | |
| SENTINEL2 | Sentinel 2 | |
| MRF | Meta Raster Format | mrf |
| PNM | Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) | |
| DOQ1 | USGS DOQ (Old Style) | |
| DOQ2 | USGS DOQ (New Style) | |
| PAux | PCI .aux Labelled | |
| MFF | Vexcel MFF Raster | hdr |
| MFF2 | Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster | |
| GSC | GSC Geogrid | |
| FAST | EOSAT FAST Format | |
| BT | VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format | bt |
| LAN | Erdas .LAN/.GIS | |
| CPG | Convair PolGASP | |
| NDF | NLAPS Data Format | |
| EIR | Erdas Imagine Raw | |
| DIPEx | DIPEx | |
| LCP | FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) | lcp |
| GTX | NOAA Vertical Datum .GTX | gtx |
| LOSLAS | NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift | |
| NTv2 | NTv2 Datum Grid Shift | |
| CTable2 | CTable2 Datum Grid Shift | |
| ACE2 | ACE2 | ACE2 |
| SNODAS | Snow Data Assimilation System | hdr |
| KRO | KOLOR Raw | kro |
| ROI_PAC | ROI_PAC raster | |
| RRASTER | R Raster | grd |
| BYN | Natural Resources Canada's Geoid | |
| ARG | Azavea Raster Grid format | |
| RIK | Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) | rik |
| USGSDEM | USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) | dem |
| GXF | GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format | gxf |
| 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 |
| PostGISRaster | PostGIS Raster driver | |
| SAGA | SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat, .sg-grd-z) | |
| XYZ | ASCII Gridded XYZ | xyz |
| HF2 | HF2/HFZ heightfield raster | hf2 |
| OZI | OziExplorer Image File | |
| CTG | USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid | |
| ZMap | ZMap Plus Grid | dat |
| NGSGEOID | NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids | bin |
| IRIS | IRIS data (.PPI, .CAPPi etc) | ppi |
| PRF | Racurs PHOTOMOD PRF | prf |
| EEDAI | Earth Engine Data API Image | |
| DAAS | Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver | |
| SIGDEM | Scaled Integer Gridded DEM .sigdem | sigdem |
| TGA | TGA/TARGA Image File Format | tga |
| OGCAPI | OGCAPI | |
| STACTA | Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets | json |
| STACIT | Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items | |
| GPKG | GeoPackage | gpkg |
| CAD | AutoCAD Driver | dwg |
| PLSCENES | Planet Labs Scenes API | |
| NGW | NextGIS Web | |
| GenBin | Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) | |
| ENVI | ENVI .hdr Labelled | |
| EHdr | ESRI .hdr Labelled | bil |
| ISCE | ISCE raster | |
| Zarr | Zarr | |
| HTTP | HTTP Fetching Wrapper | |
| | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints |
|---|
| Input | Shapes Extent | shapes, input | EXTENT_SHAPES | - | - |
| Output | Grids | grid list, output | GRIDS | - | - |
| Options | Files | file path | FILES | - | - |
| Multiple Bands Output | choice | MULTIPLE | - | Available Choices:
[0] single grids
[1] grid collection
[2] automatic
Default: 2 |
| Subsets | text, CMD | SUBSETS | Semicolon separated list of subset names or indexes (zero-based). If empty (default) all subsets will be imported (if there are any). | - |
| Select from Multiple Bands | text, CMD | SELECTION | Semicolon separated list of band indexes (zero-based). If empty (default) all bands will be imported. | - |
| Select from Multiple Bands | boolean, GUI | SELECT | - | Default: 0 |
| Alphanumeric Sorting | boolean, GUI | SELECT_SORT | Sorts bands by their name before the selection dialog opens. | Default: 0 |
| Transformation | boolean | TRANSFORM | align grid to coordinate system | Default: 1 |
| Resampling | choice | RESAMPLING | Resampling type to be used, if grid needs to be aligned to coordinate system. | Available Choices:
[0] Nearest Neighbour
[1] Bilinear Interpolation
[2] Bicubic Spline Interpolation
[3] B-Spline Interpolation
Default: 0 |
| Extent | choice | EXTENT | - | Available Choices:
[0] original
[1] user defined
[2] grid system
[3] shapes extent
Default: 0 |
| Left | floating point number | EXTENT_XMIN | - | Default: 0.000000 |
| Right | floating point number | EXTENT_XMAX | - | Default: 0.000000 |
| Bottom | floating point number | EXTENT_YMIN | - | Default: 0.000000 |
| Top | floating point number | EXTENT_YMAX | - | Default: 0.000000 |
| Grid System | grid system | EXTENT_GRID | - | - |
| Buffer | floating point number | EXTENT_BUFFER | - | Minimum: 0.000000
Default: 0.000000 |