Raster drivers — GDAL documentation
Short Name |
Long Name |
Creation (1) |
Copy (2) |
Georeferencing |
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) | No | No | 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 | Yes | Yes | libavif | |
| Bathymetry Attributed Grid | Yes | Yes | Yes | libhdf5 | |
| Basis Universal | No | Yes | No | Basis Universal | |
| 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) | No | No | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Flexible Image Transport System | Yes | Yes | Yes | libcfitsio | |
| GDALG: GDAL Streamed Algorithm | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| 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 High Efficiency Image File Format | No | Yes | Yes | 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 | |
| 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) | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| JAXA PALSAR Processed Products | No | No | 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 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 | No | 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 | |
| GeoTIFF File Format | No | No | 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 | |
| MBTiles | Yes | Yes | Yes | libsqlite3 | |
| In Memory datasets | Yes | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Vexcel MFF2 Image | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Vexcel MFF Raster | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| MiraMon Raster | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Meta Raster Format | 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 | No | No | 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 | |
| PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format | No | No | 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 | |
| NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Planetary Data System v3 | No | No | 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 | |
| RADARSAT Constellation Mission Product | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| 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 | |
| Idrisi Raster Format | Yes | Yes | 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 | |
| SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format | Yes | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| CEOS SAR Image | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Sentinel-2 Products | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Scaled Integer Gridded DEM | No | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Sentinel Application Processing GeoTIFF | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Snow Data Assimilation System | No | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Rasters in SQLite DB | No | Yes | Yes | libsqlite3, librasterlite2, libspatialite | |
| 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 | No | 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 | |
| ASCII Gridded XYZ | No | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Zarr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default, but liblz4, libxz (lzma), libzstd and libblosc, strongly recommended to get all compressors | |
| 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, CTable2, ELAS, FIT, 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, LAN, MFF, MFF2/HKV, ISIS2, PAux, USGSDEM