Raster drivers

Short Name	Long Name	Creation (1)	Copy (2)	Georeferencing	Build Requirements
AAIGrid	Arc/Info ASCII Grid	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ACE2	ACE2	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
ADRG	ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
AIG	Arc/Info Binary Grid	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
AIRSAR	AIRSAR Polarimetric Format	No	No	No	Built-in by default
AVIF	AV1 Image File Format	No	Yes	Yes	libavif
BAG	Bathymetry Attributed Grid	Yes	Yes	Yes	libhdf5
BASISU	Basis Universal	No	Yes	No	Basis Universal
BMP	Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
BSB	Maptech/NOAA BSB Nautical Chart Format	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
BYN	Natural Resources Canada's Geoid file format (.byn)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
CAD	AutoCAD DWG raster layer	No	No	Yes	(internal libopencad provided)
CALS	CALS Type 1	No	Yes	No	Built-in by default
CEOS	CEOS Image	No	No	No	Built-in by default
COASP	DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster	No	No	No	Built-in by default
COG	Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF generator	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
COSAR	TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product	No	No	No	Built-in by default
CPG	Convair PolGASP data	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
CTG	USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
DAAS	DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver)	No	No	Yes	libcurl
DDS	DirectDraw Surface	No	Yes	No	Crunch Lib
DERIVED	Derived subdatasets driver	No	No	No	Built-in by default
DIMAP	Spot DIMAP	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
DOQ1	First Generation USGS DOQ	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
DOQ2	New Labelled USGS DOQ	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
DTED	Military Elevation Data	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ECRGTOC	ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
ECW	Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)	Yes	Yes	Yes	ECW SDK
EEDAI	Google Earth Engine Data API Image	No	No	Yes	libcurl
EHdr	ESRI .hdr Labelled	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
EIR	Erdas Imagine Raw	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
ENVI	ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ERS	ERMapper .ERS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ESAT	Envisat Image Product	No	No	No	Built-in by default
ESRIC	Esri Compact Cache	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
EXR	Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	libopenexr
FAST	EOSAT FAST Format	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
FITS	Flexible Image Transport System	Yes	Yes	Yes	libcfitsio
GDALG	GDALG: GDAL Streamed Algorithm	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
GenBin	Generic Binary (.hdr labelled)	No	No	No	Built-in by default
GeoRaster	Oracle Spatial GeoRaster	Yes	Yes	Yes	Oracle client libraries
GFF	Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format	No	No	No	Built-in by default
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	No	Yes	No	(internal GIF library provided)
GPKG	GeoPackage raster	Yes	Yes	Yes	libsqlite3
GRASS	GRASS Raster Format	No	No	No	gdal-grass-driver
GRASSASCIIGrid	GRASS ASCII Grid	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
GRIB	WMO General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
GS7BG	Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid File Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
GSC	GSC Geogrid	No	No	No	Built-in by default
GTA	Generic Tagged Arrays	No	Yes	Yes	libgta
GTI	GDAL Raster Tile Index	No	No	No	Built-in by default
GTiff	GeoTIFF File Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
GXF	Grid eXchange File	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
HDF4	Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4)	Yes	Yes	Yes	libdf
HDF5	Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)	No	No	Yes	libhdf5
HEIF	ISO/IEC 23008-12 High Efficiency Image File Format	No	Yes	Yes	libheif (>= 1.1), built against libde265
HF2	HF2/HFZ heightfield raster	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
HFA	Erdas Imagine .img	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ILWIS	Raster Map	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
IRIS	Vaisala's weather radar software format	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
ISCE	ISCE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ISG	International Service for the Geoid	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
ISIS2	USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 2)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
ISIS3	USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
JAXAPALSAR	JAXA PALSAR Processed Products	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
JDEM	Japanese DEM (.mem)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
JP2ECW	ERDAS JPEG2000 (.jp2)	Yes	Yes	Yes	ECW SDK
JP2KAK	JPEG 2000 (based on Kakadu SDK)	No	Yes	Yes	Kakadu SDK
JP2MrSID	JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK	No	Yes	Yes	MrSID SDK
JP2OpenJPEG	JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library	No	Yes	Yes	openjpeg >= 2.1
JPEG	JPEG JFIF File Format	No	Yes	Yes	(internal libjpeg provided)
JPEGXL	JPEG-XL File Format	No	Yes	Yes	libjxl
JPIPKAK	JPIP Streaming	No	No	Yes	Kakadu library
KEA	KEA	Yes	Yes	Yes	libkea and libhdf5 libraries
KMLSuperoverlay	KMLSuperoverlay	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
KRO	KOLOR Raw format	Yes	Yes	No	Built-in by default
KTX2	KTX2	No	Yes	No	Basis Universal
L1B	NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
LAN	Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
LCP	FARSITE v.4 LCP Format	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
Leveller	Daylon Leveller Heightfield	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
LIBERTIFF	GeoTIFF File Format	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
LOSLAS	NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
MAP	OziExplorer .MAP	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
MBTiles	MBTiles	Yes	Yes	Yes	libsqlite3
MEM	In Memory datasets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
MFF	Vexcel MFF Raster	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
MFF2	Vexcel MFF2 Image	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
MRF	Meta Raster Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
MrSID	Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database	No	No	Yes	MrSID SDK
MSG	Meteosat Second Generation	No	No	Yes	msg library
MSGN	Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Native Archive Format (.nat)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
NDF	NLAPS Data Format	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
netCDF	NetCDF: Network Common Data Form	Yes	Yes	Yes	libnetcdf
NGSGEOID	NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
NGW	NextGIS Web	No	No	Yes	libcurl
NITF	National Imagery Transmission Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
NOAA_B	NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b format	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
NSIDCbin	National Snow and Ice Data Centre Sea Ice Concentrations	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
NTv2	NTv2 Datum Grid Shift	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
NWT_GRD	Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
OGCAPI	OGC API Tiles / Maps / Coverage	No	No	Yes	libcurl
OpenFileGDB	ESRI File Geodatabase raster (OpenFileGDB)	Yes	No	Yes	Built-in by default
PAux	PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format	No	No	No	Built-in by default
PCIDSK	PCI Geomatics Database File	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
PCRaster	PCRaster raster file format	Yes	Yes	Yes	(internal libcf provided)
PDF	Geospatial PDF	Yes	Yes	Yes	none for write support, Poppler/PoDoFo/PDFium for read support
PDS	Planetary Data System v3	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
PDS4	NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
PLMosaic	PLMosaic (Planet Labs Mosaics API)	No	No	Yes	libcurl
PNG	Portable Network Graphics	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
PNM	Netpbm (.pgm, .ppm)	Yes	Yes	No	Built-in by default
PostGISRaster	PostGIS Raster driver	No	Yes	Yes	PostgreSQL library
PRF	PHOTOMOD Raster File	No	No	No	Built-in by default
RCM	RADARSAT Constellation Mission Product	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
RIK	Swedish Grid Maps	No	No	Yes	(internal zlib is used if necessary)
RMF	Raster Matrix Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
ROI_PAC	ROI_PAC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
RPFTOC	Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
RRASTER	R Raster	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
RS2	RadarSat 2 XML Product	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
RST	Idrisi Raster Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
S102	S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product	No	No	Yes	libhdf5
S104	S-104 Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product	No	No	Yes	libhdf5
S111	S-111 Surface Currents Product	No	No	Yes	libhdf5
SAFE	Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
SAGA	SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
SAR_CEOS	CEOS SAR Image	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
SENTINEL2	Sentinel-2 Products	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
SIGDEM	Scaled Integer Gridded DEM	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
SNAP_TIFF	Sentinel Application Processing GeoTIFF	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
SNODAS	Snow Data Assimilation System	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
SQLite	Rasters in SQLite DB	Yes	Yes	Yes	libsqlite3 or libspatialite
SRP	Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
SRTMHGT	SRTM HGT Format	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
STACIT	Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items	No	No	No	Built-in by default
STACTA	Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets	No	No	No	Built-in by default
Terragen	Terragen™ Terrain File	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
TGA	TARGA Image File Format	No	No	No	Built-in by default
TIL	EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
TileDB	TileDB raster	Yes	Yes	Yes	TileDB >= 2.7
TSX	TerraSAR-X Product	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
USGSDEM	USGS ASCII DEM (and CDED)	No	No	Yes	Built-in by default
VICAR	VICAR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
VRT	GDAL Virtual Format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
WCS	OGC Web Coverage Service	No	No	Yes	libcurl
WEBP	WEBP	No	Yes	No	libwebp
WMS	Web Map Services	No	Yes	Yes	libcurl
WMTS	OGC Web Map Tile Service	No	No	Yes	libcurl
XYZ	ASCII Gridded XYZ	No	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default
Zarr	Zarr	Yes	Yes	Yes	Built-in by default, but liblz4, libxz (lzma), libzstd and libblosc, strongly recommended to get all compressors
ZMAP	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 removed in GDAL 3.5: BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTv1

The following drivers have been removed in GDAL 3.11: BLX, BT, CTable2, FIT, GSAG (Golden Software ASCII grid), GSBG (Golden Software 6.0 binary grid), JP2Lura, OZI, Rasterlite (v1), R object data store (.rda), RDB, SDTS, SGI, XPM

Write support for the following formats has been removed in GDAL 3.11: ADRG, BYN, ELAS, LAN, MFF, MFF2/HKV, ISIS2, PAux, USGSDEM