# GDAL Raster Formats

Long Format Name | Code | Creation | Georeferencing | Maximum file size1
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Arc/Info ASCII Grid | AAIGrid | Yes | Yes | 2GB
ADRG/ARC Digitilized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf) | ADRG | Yes | Yes | --
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) | AIG | No | Yes | --
AIRSAR Polarimetric | AIRSAR | No | No | --
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp) | BMP | Yes | Yes | 4GiB
BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap) | BSB | No | Yes | --
VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt) | BT | Yes | Yes | --
CEOS (Spot for instance) | CEOS | No | No | --
Spot DIMAP (metadata.dim) | DIMAP | No | Yes | --
First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq) | DOQ1 | No | Yes | --
DODS / OPeNDAP | DODS | No | Yes | --
New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq) | DOQ2 | No | Yes | --
Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2) | DTED | Yes | Yes | --
ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw) | ECW | Yes | Yes |
ESRI .hdr Labelled | EHdr | Yes | Yes | No limits
NASA ELAS | ELAS | Yes | Yes | --
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster | ENVI | Yes | Yes | No limits
Envisat Image Product (.n1) | Envisat | No | No | --
EOSAT FAST Format | FAST | No | Yes | --
FITS (.fits) | FITS | Yes | No |
GSat File Format | GFF | No | No | --
Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | GIF | Yes | No | 2GB
GMT Compatible netCDF | GMT | Yes | Yes | 2GB
GRASS Rasters | GRASS | No | Yes | --
Golden Software ASCII Grid | GSAG | Yes | No | --
Golden Software Binary Grid | GSBG | Yes | No | 4GiB (32767x32767 of 4 bytes each + 56 byte header)
Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid | GS7BG | No | No | 4GiB
TIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif) | GTiff | Yes | Yes | 4GiB
GXF - Grid eXchange File | GXF | No | Yes | 4GiB
Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4) | HDF4 | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5) | HDF5 | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
Intergraph Raster | INGR | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
Erdas Imagine (.img) | HFA | Yes | Yes | No limits2
Vexcel MFF2 | HKV | Yes | Yes | No limits
Idrisi Raster | RST | Yes | Yes | No limits
Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp) | IDA | Yes | Yes | 2GB
ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl) | ILWIS | Yes | Yes | --
Japanese DEM (.mem) | JDEM | No | Yes | --
JPEG JFIF (.jpg) | JPEG | Yes | Yes | 4GiB (max dimentions 65500x65500)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) | JPEG2000 | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) | JP2KAK | Yes | Yes | No limits
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) | JP2ECW | Yes | Yes | 500MB
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) | JP2MrSID | Yes | Yes |
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) | L1B | No | Yes | --
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS | LAN | No | Yes | 2GB
Daylon Leveller Heightfield | Leveller | No | Yes |
In Memory Raster | MEM | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
Vexcel MFF | MFF | Yes | Yes | No limits
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database | MrSID | No | Yes | --
Meteosat Second Generation | MSG | No | Yes |
NDF | NLAPS Data Format | No | Yes | No limits
NITF | NITF | Yes | Yes | 4GB
NetCDF | netCDF | Yes | Yes | 2GB
OGDI Bridge | OGDI | No | Yes | --
PCI .aux Labelled | PAux | Yes | No | No limits
PCI Geomatics Database File | PCIDSK | Yes | Yes | No limits
Portable Network Graphics (.png) | PNG | Yes | No |
PCRaster (.map) | PCRaster | Yes | Yes |
Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm) | PNM | Yes | No | No limits
Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) | RIK | No | Yes | 4GB
RadarSat2 XML (product.xml) | RS2 | No | Yes | 4GB
ArcSDE Raster | SDE | No | Yes | --
Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc) | RPFTOC | No | Yes | --
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF) | SDTS | No | Yes | --
Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw) | RMF | Yes | Yes | 4GB
SAR CEOS | SAR_CEOS | No | Yes | --
SGI Image Format | SGI | No | Yes | --
SRTM HGT Format | SRTMHGT | Yes | Yes | --
USGS ASCII DEM (.dem) | USGSDEM | No | Yes | --
Terragen Heightfield (.ter) | TERRAGEN | Yes | No | --
GDAL Virtual (.vrt) | VRT | No | Yes | --
OGC Web Coverage Server | WCS | No | Yes | --
OGC Web Map Server | WMS | No | Yes | --
X11 Pixmap (.xpm) | XPM | Yes | No |

1Maximum file size does not only determined by the file format itself, but operating system/file system capabilities as well. Look here for details.

2ERDAS Imagine has different file format for large files, where 32-bit pointers cannot be used. Look for details here.

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