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GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library |
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GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library |
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GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is |
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GDAL/OGR is translator library for raster (GDAL) and vector (OGR) geospatial |
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released under an Open Source license. As a library, it presents a single |
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data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the |
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abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. |
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calling application for all supported formats. |
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GDAL is in active use in a few projects, and includes a number of |
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They providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of file formats |
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formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine |
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including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, Mapinfo mid/mif |
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(read), ESRI .BIL (read/write), .aux labelled raw (read/write), DTED |
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and TAB formats, GeoTIFF, Erdas Imagine, ESRI .BIL, .aux labelled raw, DTED, |
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(read), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read), JPEG (read/write), PNG (read/write), |
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SDTS DEM, JPEG, PNG and Arc/Info Binary/ASCII Grid. |
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Geosoft GXF (read) and Arc/Info Binary Grid (read). A full list is |
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A full list of supported data formats is available on the official website. |
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available in Supported Formats. |
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WWW: http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/ |
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WWW: http://www.gdal.org |