Long Format Name

Code

Creation

Georeference

Arc/Info ASCII Grid

AAIGrid

Yes

Yes

Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf)

AIG

No

Yes

AIRSAR Polarimetric

AIRSAR

No

No

Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp)

BMP

Yes

Yes

BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap)

BSB

No

Yes

VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt)

BT

Yes

Yes

CEOS (Spot for instance)

CEOS

No

No

DODS / OPeNDAP

DODS

No

Yes

First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq)

DOQ1

No

Yes

New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq)

DOQ2

No

Yes

Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1)

DTED

No

Yes

ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)

ECW

Yes

Yes

ESRI .hdr Labelled

EHdr

No

Yes

ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster

ENVI

Yes

Yes

Envisat Image Product (.n1)

Envisat

No

No

EOSAT FAST Format

FAST

No

Yes

FITS (.fits)

FITS

Yes

No

Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)

GIF

Yes

No

Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf)

GIO

Yes

Yes

GRASS Rasters

GRASS

No

Yes

TIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif)

GTiff

Yes

Yes

Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4)

HDF4

Yes

Yes

Erdas Imagine (.img)

HFA

Yes

Yes

Atlantis MFF2e

HKV

Yes

Yes

Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp)

IDA

Yes

Yes

ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl)

ILWIS

Yes

Yes

Japanese DEM (.mem)

JDEM

No

Yes

JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)

JP2KAK

Yes

Yes

JPEG JFIF (.jpg)

JPEG

Yes

Yes

JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)

JPEG2000

Yes

Yes

NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)

L1B

No

Yes

Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS

LAN

No

Yes

In Memory Raster

MEM

Yes

Yes

Atlantis MFF

MFF

Yes

Yes

Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database

MrSID

No

Yes

Meteosat Second Generation

MSG

No

Yes

NetCDF

netCDF

Yes

Yes

NITF

NITF

Yes

Yes

NDF

NLAPS Data Format

No

Yes

OGDI Bridge

OGDI

No

Yes

PCI .aux Labelled

PAux

Yes

No

PCI Geomatics Database File

PCIDSK

Yes

Yes

PCRaster (.map)

PCRaster

Yes

Yes

Portable Network Graphics (.png)

PNG

Yes

No

Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm)

PNM

Yes

No

Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw)

RMF

Yes

Yes

RadarSat2 XML (product.xml)

RS2

No

Yes

SAR CEOS

SAR_CEOS

No

Yes

USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)

SDTS

No

Yes

USGS ASCII DEM (.dem)

USGSDEM

No

Yes

X11 Pixmap (.xpm)

XPM

Yes

No

Format Name

Creation

Georeferencing

Arc/Info Binary Coverage

No

Yes

Comma Separated Value (.csv)

Yes

No

DODS/OPeNDAP

No

Yes

ESRI Shapefile

Yes

Yes

FMEObjects Gateway

No

Yes

GML

Yes

No

IHO S-57 (ENC)

No

Yes

Mapinfo File

Yes

Yes

Microstation DGN

No

No

MySQL

No

No

OGDI Vectors

No

Yes

ODBC

No

Yes

Oracle Spatial

Yes

Yes

PostgreSQL

Yes

Yes

SDTS

No

Yes

SQLite

Yes

No

UK .NTF

No

Yes

U.S. Census TIGER/Line

No

Yes

VRT - Virtual Datasource

No

Yes