| 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 |
| InfoSAR NetCDF Images (.nc) |
InfoSAR |
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 |
