Feature Data Objects Provider for GDAL

Overview

The Feature Data Objects (FDO) API provides access to data in a data store. A provider is a specific implementation of the FDO API that provides access to data in a particular data store. The FDO Provider for GDAL provides FDO with access to a variety of raster file formats supported by the OSGeo GDAL library.

Characteristics

The FDO Provider for GDAL has the following characteristics:

Connection

This information supplements the Establishing a Connection chapter in the FDO Developers Guide.

You can connect to FDO Provider for GDAL by specifying the DefaultRasterFileLocation of the raster file(s) that you want to use. This parameter may correspond to a single file or a directory containing a number of raster files.

More information on the GDAL library, supported formats, and specific capabilities of particular format drivers can be found at www.gdal.org.