GDAL
GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an MIT style Open SourceLicense by theOpen Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing. TheNEWS page describes the February 2025 GDAL/OGR 3.10.2 "Gulf Of Mexico" release.
This documentation is also available as aPDF or aZIP of individual HTML pages for offline browsing.
You may quote GDAL in publications by using the following Digital Object Identifier:
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- Programs
- Raster drivers
- AAIGrid -- Arc/Info ASCII Grid
- ACE2 -- ACE2
- ADRG -- ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
- AIG -- Arc/Info Binary Grid
- AIRSAR -- AIRSAR Polarimetric Format
- AVIF -- AV1 Image File Format
- BAG -- Bathymetry Attributed Grid
- BASISU -- Basis Universal
- BLX -- Magellan BLX Topo File Format
- BMP -- Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
- BSB -- Maptech/NOAA BSB Nautical Chart Format
- BT -- VTP .bt Binary Terrain Format
- BYN - Natural Resources Canada's Geoid file format (.byn)
- CAD -- AutoCAD DWG raster layer
- CALS -- CALS Type 1
- CEOS -- CEOS Image
- COASP -- DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
- COG -- Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF generator
- COSAR -- TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product
- CPG -- Convair PolGASP data
- CTable2 -- CTable2 Datum Grid Shift
- CTG -- USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid
- DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver)
- DDS -- DirectDraw Surface
- DERIVED -- Derived subdatasets driver
- DIMAP -- Spot DIMAP
- DIPEx -- ELAS DIPEx
- DOQ1 -- First Generation USGS DOQ
- DOQ2 -- New Labelled USGS DOQ
- DTED -- Military Elevation Data
- ECRGTOC -- ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml)
- ECW -- Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)
- EEDAI - Google Earth Engine Data API Image
- EHdr -- ESRI .hdr Labelled
- EIR -- Erdas Imagine Raw
- ELAS - Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software
- ENVI -- ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
- ESAT -- Envisat Image Product
- ESRIC -- Esri Compact Cache
- ERS -- ERMapper .ERS
- EXR -- Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format
- FAST -- EOSAT FAST Format
- FIT -- FIT
- FITS -- Flexible Image Transport System
- GenBin -- Generic Binary (.hdr labelled)
- Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
- GFF -- Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format
- GIF -- Graphics Interchange Format
- GPKG -- GeoPackage raster
- GRASS Raster Format
- GRASSASCIIGrid -- GRASS ASCII Grid
- GRIB -- WMO General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form
- GS7BG -- Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid File Format
- GSAG -- Golden Software ASCII Grid File Format
- GSBG -- Golden Software Binary Grid File Format
- GSC -- GSC Geogrid
- GTA - Generic Tagged Arrays
- GTI -- GDAL Raster Tile Index
- GTiff -- GeoTIFF File Format
- GXF -- Grid eXchange File
- HDF4 -- Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4)
- HDF5 -- Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)
- HEIF / HEIC -- ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 High Efficiency Image File Format
- HF2 -- HF2/HFZ heightfield raster
- HFA -- Erdas Imagine .img
- RST -- Idrisi Raster Format
- ILWIS -- Raster Map
- IRIS -- Vaisala's weather radar software format
- ISCE -- ISCE
- ISG -- International Service for the Geoid
- ISIS2 -- USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 2)
- ISIS3 -- USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3)
- JDEM -- Japanese DEM (.mem)
- JP2ECW -- ERDAS JPEG2000 (.jp2)
- JP2KAK -- JPEG 2000 (based on Kakadu SDK)
- JP2Lura -- JPEG2000 driver based on Lurawave library
- JP2MrSID -- JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK
- JP2OpenJPEG -- JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library
- JPEG -- JPEG JFIF File Format
- JPEGXL -- JPEG-XL File Format
- JPIPKAK - JPIP Streaming
- KEA
- KMLSuperoverlay -- KMLSuperoverlay
- KRO -- KOLOR Raw format
- KTX2
- LAN -- Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS
- L1B -- NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
- LCP -- FARSITE v.4 LCP Format
- Leveller -- Daylon Leveller Heightfield
- LOSLAS -- NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift
- MAP -- OziExplorer .MAP
- MRF -- Meta Raster Format
- MBTiles
- MEM -- In Memory Raster
- MFF -- Vexcel MFF Raster
- MFF2 -- Vexcel MFF2 Image
- MrSID -- Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
- MSG -- Meteosat Second Generation
- MSGN -- Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Native Archive Format (.nat)
- NDF -- NLAPS Data Format
- NetCDF: Network Common Data Form
- NGSGEOID - NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
- NGW -- NextGIS Web
- NITF -- National Imagery Transmission Format
- NOAA_B -- NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b format
- NSIDCbin -- National Snow and Ice Data Centre Sea Ice Concentrations
- NTv2 -- NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
- NWT_GRD/NWT_GRC -- Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format
- OGCAPI -- OGC API Tiles / Maps / Coverage
- ESRI File Geodatabase raster (OpenFileGDB)
- OZI -- OZF2/OZFX3 raster
- JAXA PALSAR Processed Products
- PAux -- PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format
- PCIDSK -- PCI Geomatics Database File
- PCRaster -- PCRaster raster file format
- PDF -- Geospatial PDF
- PDS -- Planetary Data System v3
- PDS4 -- NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4)
- PLMosaic (Planet Labs Mosaics API)
- PNG -- Portable Network Graphics
- PNM -- Netpbm (.pgm, .ppm)
- PostGISRaster -- PostGIS Raster driver
- PHOTOMOD Raster File
- Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
- RasterLite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
- R -- R Object Data Store
- RDB -RIEGL Database
- RIK -- Swedish Grid Maps
- RMF -- Raster Matrix Format
- ROI_PAC -- ROI_PAC
- RPFTOC -- Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc)
- RRASTER -- R Raster
- RS2 -- RadarSat 2 XML Product
- S102 -- S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product
- S104 -- S-104 Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product
- S111 -- S-111 Surface Currents Product
- SAFE -- Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product
- SAR_CEOS -- CEOS SAR Image
- SAGA -- SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format
- SDTS -- USGS SDTS DEM
- SENTINEL2 -- Sentinel-2 Products
- SGI -- SGI Image Format
- SIGDEM -- Scaled Integer Gridded DEM
- SNAP_TIFF -- Sentinel Application Processing GeoTIFF
- SNODAS -- Snow Data Assimilation System
- SRP -- Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen)
- SRTMHGT -- SRTM HGT Format
- STACIT - Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items
- STACTA - Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
- Terragen -- Terragen™ Terrain File
- TGA -- TARGA Image File Format
- TIL -- EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
- TileDB - TileDB raster
- TSX -- TerraSAR-X Product
- USGSDEM -- USGS ASCII DEM (and CDED)
- VICAR -- VICAR
- VRT -- GDAL Virtual Format
- WCS -- OGC Web Coverage Service
- WEBP - WEBP
- WMS -- Web Map Services
- WMTS -- OGC Web Map Tile Service
- XPM -- X11 Pixmap
- XYZ -- ASCII Gridded XYZ
- Zarr
- ZMap -- ZMap Plus Grid
- Vector drivers
- AmigoCloud
- (Geo)Arrow IPC File Format / Stream
- Arc/Info Binary Coverage
- Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage
- CAD -- AutoCAD DWG
- Carto
- Comma Separated Value (.csv)
- CSW - OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web)
- Microstation DGN
- Microstation DGN v8
- AutoCAD DWG
- AutoCAD DXF
- Google Earth Engine Data API
- EDIGEO
- Elasticsearch: Geographically Encoded Objects for Elasticsearch
- ESRIJSON / FeatureService driver
- ESRI File Geodatabase (FileGDB)
- FlatGeobuf
- GeoConcept text export
- GeoJSON
- GeoJSONSeq: sequence of GeoJSON features
- GeoRSS : Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
- GML - Geography Markup Language
- GMLAS - Geography Markup Language (GML) driven by application schemas
- GMT ASCII Vectors (.gmt)
- GPKG -- GeoPackage vector
- GPSBabel
- GPX - GPS Exchange Format
- GRASS Vector Format
- GTFS - General Transit Feed Specification
- SAP HANA
- IDB
- Idrisi Vector (.VCT)
- "INTERLIS 1" and "INTERLIS 2" drivers
- JML: OpenJUMP JML format
- JSONFG -- OGC Features and Geometries JSON
- KML - Keyhole Markup Language
- LIBKML Driver (.kml .kmz)
- Dutch Kadaster LV BAG 2.0 Extract
- MapML
- Memory
- MiraMon Vector
- MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID
- MongoDBv3
- MSSQLSpatial - Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Database
- MVT: Mapbox Vector Tiles
- MySQL
- NAS - ALKIS
- NetCDF: Network Common Data Form - Vector
- NGW -- NextGIS Web
- UK .NTF
- OGC API - Features
- Oracle Spatial
- ODBC RDBMS
- ODS - Open Document Spreadsheet
- OGDI Vectors
- ESRI File Geodatabase vector (OpenFileGDB)
- OSM - OpenStreetMap XML and PBF
- (Geo)Parquet
- PDF -- Geospatial PDF
- PDS - Planetary Data Systems TABLE
- PostgreSQL SQL Dump
- ESRI Personal GeoDatabase
- PostgreSQL / PostGIS
- PLScenes (Planet Labs Scenes/Catalog API)
- PMTiles -- ProtoMaps Tiles
- IHO S-57 (ENC)
- SDTS
- Selafin files
- ESRI Shapefile / DBF
- Norwegian SOSI Standard
- SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS
- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
- Storage and eXchange Format - SXF
- U.S. Census TIGER/Line
- TileDB -- TileDB vector
- TopoJSON driver
- VDV - VDV-451/VDV-452/INTREST Data Format
- VFK - Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format
- VRT -- Virtual Format
- WAsP - WAsP .map format
- WFS - OGC WFS service
- XLS - MS Excel format
- XLSX - MS Office Open XML spreadsheet
- XODR -- OpenDRIVE Road Description Format
- User
- API
- Tutorials
- Development
- Community
- Sponsors
- How to contribute?
- FAQ
- What does GDAL stand for?
- What is this OGR stuff?
- What does OGR stand for?
- What does CPL stand for?
- When was the GDAL project started?
- Is GDAL/OGR proprietary software?
- What license does GDAL/OGR use?
- What operating systems does GDAL-OGR run on?
- Is there a graphical user interface to GDAL/OGR?
- What compiler can I use to build GDAL/OGR?
- I have a question that's not answered here. Where can I get more information?
- How do I add support for a new format?
- Is GDAL thread-safe ?
- Does GDAL provide a Section 508 information?
- How do I cite GDAL ?
- License
- Thanks