GDAL Raster Formats
Long Format Name
Code
Creation
Georeferencing
Arc/Info ASCII Grid
AAIGrid
Yes
Yes
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf)
AIG
No
Yes
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp)
BMP
Yes
Yes
BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap)
BSB
No
Yes
CEOS (Spot for instance)
CEOS
No
No
First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq)
DOQ1
No
Yes
New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq)
DOQ2
No
Yes
Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1)
DTED
No
Yes
Eosat Fast Format
EFF
No
No
ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)
ECW
Yes
Yes
ESRI .hdr Labelled
EHdr
No
Yes
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
ENVI
No
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 partially
Erdas Imagine (.img)
HFA
Yes
Yes
Atlantis MFF2e
HKV
Yes
Yes
Japanese DEM (.mem)
JDEM
No
Yes
JPEG JFIF (.jpg)
JPEG
Yes
Yes
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k)
JPEG
Yes
Yes
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
L1B
No
Yes
Atlantis MFF
MFF
Yes
Yes
NITF
NITF
Yes
Yes
OGDI Bridge
OGDI
No
Yes
PCI .aux Labelled
PAux
Yes
No
Portable Network Graphics (.png)
PNG
Yes
No
Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm)
PNM
Yes
No
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SDTS
No
Yes
SAR CEOS
SAR_CEOS
No
Yes
USGS ASCII DEM (.dem)
USGSDEM
No
Yes
X11 Pixmap (.xpm)
XPM
Yes
No