Raster drivers
Short name |
Long name |
Creation (1) |
Copy (2) |
Geo-referencing |
Build requirements |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arc/Info ASCII Grid |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ACE2 |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Arc/Info Binary Grid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
AIRSAR Polarimetric Format |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
AV1 Image File Format |
No |
No |
No |
libavif |
|
Bathymetry Attributed Grid |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
Basis Universal |
No |
Yes |
No |
Basis Universal |
|
Magellan BLX Topo File Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Maptech/NOAA BSB Nautical Chart Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
VTP .bt Binary Terrain Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Natural Resources Canada's Geoid file format (.byn) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
AutoCAD DWG raster layer |
No |
No |
Yes |
(internal libopencad provided) |
|
CALS Type 1 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
CEOS Image |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF generator |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Convair PolGASP data |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
CTable2 Datum Grid Shift |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
DirectDraw Surface |
No |
Yes |
No |
Crunch Lib |
|
Derived subdatasets driver |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Spot DIMAP |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ELAS DIPEx |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
First Generation USGS DOQ |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
New Labelled USGS DOQ |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Military Elevation Data |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (.ecw) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ECW SDK |
|
Google Earth Engine Data API Image |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
ESRI .hdr Labelled |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Erdas Imagine Raw |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ERMapper .ERS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Envisat Image Product |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Esri Compact Cache |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libopenexr |
|
EOSAT FAST Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
FIT |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Flexible Image Transport System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libcfitsio |
|
Generic Binary (.hdr labelled) |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Oracle client libraries |
|
Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Graphics Interchange Format |
No |
Yes |
No |
(internal GIF library provided) |
|
GeoPackage raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 (and any or all of PNG, JPEG, WEBP drivers) |
|
GRASS Raster Format |
No |
No |
No |
gdal-grass-driver |
|
GRASS ASCII Grid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
WMO General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Golden Software ASCII Grid File Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Golden Software Binary Grid File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GSC Geogrid |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Generic Tagged Arrays |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libgta |
|
GDAL Raster Tile Index |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
GeoTIFF File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Grid eXchange File |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libdf |
|
Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 High Efficiency Image File Format |
No |
No |
No |
libheif (>= 1.1), built against libde265 |
|
HF2/HFZ heightfield raster |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Erdas Imagine .img |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Idrisi Raster Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Raster Map |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Vaisala's weather radar software format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ISCE |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
International Service for the Geoid |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 2) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Japanese DEM (.mem) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ERDAS JPEG2000 (.jp2) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ECW SDK |
|
JPEG 2000 (based on Kakadu SDK) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Kakadu SDK |
|
JPEG2000 driver based on Lurawave library |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Lurawave library |
|
JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
MrSID SDK |
|
JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
openjpeg >= 2.1 |
|
JPEG JFIF File Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
(internal libjpeg provided) |
|
JPEG-XL File Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libjxl |
|
JPIP Streaming |
No |
No |
Yes |
Kakadu library |
|
KEA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libkea and libhdf5 libraries |
|
KMLSuperoverlay |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
KOLOR Raw format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
KTX2 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Basis Universal |
|
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
FARSITE v.4 LCP Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Daylon Leveller Heightfield |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OziExplorer .MAP |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Meta Raster Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
MBTiles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 |
|
In Memory Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Vexcel MFF Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Vexcel MFF2 Image |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database |
No |
No |
Yes |
MrSID SDK |
|
Meteosat Second Generation |
No |
No |
Yes |
msg library |
|
Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Native Archive Format (.nat) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NLAPS Data Format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NetCDF: Network Common Data Form |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
libnetcdf |
|
NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NextGIS Web |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
National Imagery Transmission Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b format |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
National Snow and Ice Data Centre Sea Ice Concentrations |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NTv2 Datum Grid Shift |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC API Tiles / Maps / Coverage |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
ESRI File Geodatabase raster (OpenFileGDB) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OZF2/OZFX3 raster |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
JAXA PALSAR Processed Products |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
PCI Geomatics Database File |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
PCRaster raster file format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
(internal libcf provided) |
|
Geospatial PDF |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
none for write support, Poppler/PoDoFo/PDFium for read support |
|
Planetary Data System v3 |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
PLMosaic (Planet Labs Mosaics API) |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
Portable Network Graphics |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Netpbm (.pgm, .ppm) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
PostGIS Raster driver |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
PostgreSQL library |
|
PHOTOMOD Raster File |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
R Object Data Store |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Rasters in SQLite DB |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 |
|
Rasters in SQLite DB |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3, librasterlite2, libspatialite |
|
RIEGL Database |
No |
No |
Yes |
rdblib >= 2.2.0. |
|
Swedish Grid Maps |
No |
No |
Yes |
(internal zlib is used if necessary) |
|
Raster Matrix Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ROI_PAC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
R Raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
RadarSat 2 XML Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
S-104 Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
S-111 Surface Currents Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
libhdf5 |
|
Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
CEOS SAR Image |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS SDTS DEM |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Sentinel-2 Products |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SGI Image Format |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Scaled Integer Gridded DEM |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Snow Data Assimilation System |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SRTM HGT Format |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
Terragen™ Terrain File |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TARGA Image File Format |
No |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TileDB raster |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
TileDB (>= 2.7 starting with GDAL 3.7) |
|
TerraSAR-X Product |
No |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
USGS ASCII DEM (and CDED) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
VICAR |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GDAL Virtual Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC Web Coverage Service |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
WEBP |
No |
Yes |
No |
libwebp |
|
Web Map Services |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
OGC Web Map Tile Service |
No |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
X11 Pixmap |
No |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
ASCII Gridded XYZ |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Zarr |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default, but liblz4, libxz (lzma), libzstd and libblosc |
|
ZMap Plus Grid |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
(1): Creation refers to implementing
GDALCreate()
.(2): Copy refers to implementing
GDALCreateCopy()
.
Note
The following drivers have been retired and moved to the https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository: BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTv1