The "GDAL Raster Import" tool imports grid data from various file formats using the "Geospatial Data Abstraction Library" (GDAL) by Frank Warmerdam.
GDAL Version:3.9.2
Following raster formats are currently supported:
| Name | ID | Extension |
|---|
| ACE2 | ACE2 | ACE2 |
| ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | ADRG | gen |
| ASCII Gridded XYZ | XYZ | xyz |
| AirSAR Polarimetric Image | AirSAR | |
| Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver | DAAS | |
| Arc/Info ASCII Grid | AAIGrid | asc |
| Arc/Info Binary Grid | AIG | |
| AutoCAD Driver | CAD | dwg |
| Bathymetry Attributed Grid | BAG | bag |
| CALS (Type 1) | CALS | |
| CEOS Image | CEOS | |
| CEOS SAR Image | SAR_CEOS | |
| COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X) | COSAR | |
| CTable2 Datum Grid Shift | CTable2 | |
| Convair PolGASP | CPG | |
| DIPEx | DIPEx | |
| DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster | COASP | hdr |
| DTED Elevation Raster | DTED | |
| Derived datasets using VRT pixel functions | DERIVED | |
| ECRG TOC format | ECRGTOC | xml |
| ELAS | ELAS | |
| ENVI .hdr Labelled | ENVI | |
| EOSAT FAST Format | FAST | |
| ERMapper .ers Labelled | ERS | ers |
| ESRI .hdr Labelled | EHdr | bil |
| ESRI FileGDB | OpenFileGDB | gdb |
| EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) | MSGN | nat |
| Earth Engine Data API Image | EEDAI | |
| EarthWatch .TIL | TIL | |
| Envisat Image Format | ESAT | n1 |
| Erdas .LAN/.GIS | LAN | |
| Erdas Imagine Images (.img) | HFA | img |
| Erdas Imagine Raw | EIR | |
| Esri Compact Cache | ESRIC | |
| FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) | LCP | lcp |
| FIT Image | FIT | |
| Flexible Image Transport System | FITS | fits |
| GDAL Raster Tile Index | GTI | |
| GRASS ASCII Grid | GRASSASCIIGrid | |
| GRIdded Binary (.grb, .grb2) | GRIB | grb grb2 grib2 |
| GSC Geogrid | GSC | |
| Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) | GenBin | |
| GeoPackage | GPKG | |
| GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format | GXF | gxf |
| GeoTIFF | GTiff | tif |
| Geospatial PDF | PDF | pdf |
| Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) | GS7BG | grd |
| Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) | GSAG | grd |
| Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) | GSBG | grd |
| Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | GIF | gif |
| Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff) | GFF | gff |
| HDF4 Dataset | HDF4Image | |
| HDF5 Dataset | HDF5Image | |
| HF2/HFZ heightfield raster | HF2 | hf2 |
| HTTP Fetching Wrapper | HTTP | |
| Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 | HDF4 | hdf |
| Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 | HDF5 | h5 hdf5 |
| ILWIS Raster Map | ILWIS | |
| IRIS data (.PPI, .CAPPi etc) | IRIS | ppi |
| ISCE raster | ISCE | |
| Idrisi Raster A.1 | RST | rst |
| In Memory Raster | MEM | |
| International Service for the Geoid | ISG | isg |
| JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) | JAXAPALSAR | |
| JPEG JFIF | JPEG | jpg |
| JPEG-2000 driver based on JP2OpenJPEG library | JP2OpenJPEG | jp2 |
| Japanese DEM (.mem) | JDEM | mem |
| KEA Image Format (.kea) | KEA | kea |
| KOLOR Raw | KRO | kro |
| Kml Super Overlay | KMLSUPEROVERLAY | |
| Leveller heightfield | Leveller | ter |
| MBTiles | MBTiles | mbtiles |
| MIPL VICAR file | VICAR | |
| MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap | BMP | bmp |
| Magellan topo (.blx) | BLX | blx |
| Maptech BSB Nautical Charts | BSB | kap |
| Meta Raster Format | MRF | mrf |
| NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift | LOSLAS | |
| NASA Planetary Data System | PDS | |
| NASA Planetary Data System 4 | PDS4 | xml |
| NLAPS Data Format | NDF | |
| NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b format | NOAA_B | b |
| NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids | NGSGEOID | bin |
| NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set | L1B | |
| NOAA Vertical Datum .GTX | GTX | gtx |
| NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations binary (.bin) | NSIDCbin | bin |
| NTv2 Datum Grid Shift | NTv2 | |
| National Imagery Transmission Format | NITF | ntf |
| Natural Resources Canada's Geoid | BYN | |
| Network Common Data Format | netCDF | nc |
| NextGIS Web | NGW | |
| Northwood Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab | NWT_GRC | grc |
| Northwood Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab | NWT_GRD | grd |
| OGC Web Coverage Service | WCS | |
| OGC Web Map Service | WMS | |
| OGC Web Map Tile Service | WMTS | |
| OGCAPI | OGCAPI | |
| OziExplorer .MAP | MAP | |
| OziExplorer Image File | OZI | |
| PCI .aux Labelled | PAux | |
| PCIDSK Database File | PCIDSK | pix |
| PCRaster Raster File | PCRaster | map |
| Planet Labs Mosaics API | PLMOSAIC | |
| Planet Labs Scenes API | PLSCENES | |
| Portable Network Graphics | PNG | png |
| Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) | PNM | |
| PostGIS Raster driver | PostGISRaster | |
| R Object Data Store | R | rda |
| R Raster | RRASTER | grd |
| ROI_PAC raster | ROI_PAC | |
| Racurs PHOTOMOD PRF | PRF | prf |
| RadarSat 2 XML Product | RS2 | |
| Raster Matrix Format | RMF | rsw |
| Raster Product Format TOC format | RPFTOC | toc |
| Rasterlite | Rasterlite | sqlite |
| S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product | S102 | h5 |
| S-104 Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product | S104 | h5 |
| SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat, .sg-grd-z) | SAGA | |
| SDTS Raster | SDTS | ddf |
| SGI Image File Format 1.0 | SGI | rgb |
| SPOT DIMAP | DIMAP | |
| SRTMHGT File Format | SRTMHGT | hgt |
| Scaled Integer Gridded DEM .sigdem | SIGDEM | sigdem |
| Sentinel 2 | SENTINEL2 | |
| Sentinel-1 SAR SAFE Product | SAFE | |
| Snow Data Assimilation System | SNODAS | hdr |
| Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items | STACIT | |
| Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets | STACTA | json |
| Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP) | SRP | img |
| Surface Currents Product | S111 | h5 |
| Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) | RIK | rik |
| TGA/TARGA Image File Format | TGA | tga |
| TerraSAR-X Product | TSX | |
| Terragen heightfield | Terragen | ter |
| TileDB | TileDB | |
| USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) | ISIS2 | |
| USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) | ISIS3 | |
| USGS DOQ (New Style) | DOQ2 | |
| USGS DOQ (Old Style) | DOQ1 | |
| USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid | CTG | |
| USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) | USGSDEM | dem |
| VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format | BT | bt |
| Vexcel MFF Raster | MFF | hdr |
| Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster | MFF2 | |
| Virtual Raster | VRT | vrt |
| WEBP | WEBP | webp |
| X11 PixMap Format | XPM | xpm |
| ZMap Plus Grid | ZMap | dat |
| Zarr | Zarr | |
| | 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 | 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 | 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 |