Supported Raster Formats
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ProRaster has a set of native drivers which can mount a wide variety of common raster formats. One of these drivers uses the open-source GDAL library to provide support for many more common and less common raster formats.
When ProRaster tries to mount a raster, it first tries to open it with the native drivers. If this is not successful it will try to open it with the GDAL driver. If you wish to exercise control over which driver opens a raster, you can do so via the Advanced settings found in the Raster Source Editor dialog.
Some formats supported by native drivers can be opened if they are stored inside a ZIP archive. If so, “zip” will be included as an additional extension. Rasters supported by native drivers can also be opened via the MapInfo Pro “tab” file (if present). Some formats support additional files like WORLD files and these are listed as “Additional Extensions”.
The GDAL Virtual File System can be used to access rasters that are stored in archives (like ZIP), at publicly accessible URL’s, on Cloud Drives, or on Cloud repositories like AWS buckets. See the ProRaster User Guide for help accessing this system.
Table 1 : Formats supported by native drivers
| Format | Driver Name | File Extension | File Extension List | Additional Extensions | Read/Write/Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRR - Multi-resolution raster | RD_MRR | mrr | mrr | tab | Yes/Yes/Yes |
| MRD - MapInfo Render Algorithm | RD_MRD | mrd | mrd, xml | tab | Yes/Yes/Yes |
| MVR - MapInfo Virtual Raster | RD_MVR | mvr | mvr, xml | tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| Encom Grid | RD_Encom_Float_GRD | grd | grd | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| Vertical Mapper Grid | RD_VerticalMapper_GRD | grd | grd | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| Vertical Mapper Classified Grid | RD_VerticalMapper_GRC | grc | grc | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| ERMapper | RD_ERMapper_ERS | ers | ers | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| BIL - Band Interleaved | RD_BandInterleaved_BIL | bil | bil, hdr | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| BIP - Band Interleaved | RD_BandInterleaved_BIP | bip | bip, hdr | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| BSQ- Band Interleaved | RD_BandInterleaved_BSQ | bsq | bsq, hdr | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| GeoTIFF | RD_GeoTiff_IMG | tif | tif, tiff | tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF (COG) | RD_GeoTiff_IMG | tif | tif, tiff | tab | Yes/No/No |
| TIFF | RD_Tiff_IMG | tif | tif, tiff | tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| ArcInfo ASCII Grid | RD_ESRI_ASCII_GRD | asc | asc | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| ArcInfo Float Grid | RD_ESRI_Float_GRD | flt | flt, hdr | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| ArcInfo Binary Grid | RD_ESRI_GRD | adf | adf | tab | Yes/No/No |
| Surfer Binary Grid | RD_Surfer_Binary_GRD | grd | grd | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| Surfer ASCII Grid | RD_Surfer_ASCII_GRD | grd | grd | zip, tab | Yes/Yes/No |
| PNG (Located) | RD_Located_PNG | png | png | wld, pgw, pngw, tab, ers, egb | Yes/Yes/No |
| PNG | RD_Unlocated_PNG | png | png | Yes/Yes/No | |
| JPEG (Located) | RD_Located_JPG | jpg | jpg, jpeg, jfi, jfif | wld, jgw, jpgw, jpegw, tab, ers, egb | Yes/Yes/No |
| JPEG | RD_Unlocated_JPG | jpg | jpg, jpeg, jfi, jfif | Yes/Yes/No | |
| ECW/JP2000 – Enhanced Compression Wavelet | RD_ECW_IMG | ecw | ecw, jp2, j2k, j2c, jpc, jpx, jpf, tab | tab | Yes/No/No |
| Geosoft | RD_Geosoft_GRD | grd | grd | tab | Yes/No/No |
| HDF5 | RD_HDF5 | h5 | h5 | wld, tab, ers, egb | Yes/No/No |
| GDAL multi-format driver | RD_GDAL_GENERIC | Yes/No/No |
Table 2 : Formats supported by the GDAL driver
This list is subject to change without notice.
| Format | Driver | Extension |
|---|---|---|
| Erdas Imagine Images (.img) | HFA | img |
| ENVI .hdr Labelled | ENVI | |
| USGS DOQ (Old Style) | DOQ1 | |
| USGS DOQ (New Style) | DOQ2 | |
| DTED Elevation Raster | DTED | |
| GeoTIFF | GTiff | tif |
| Virtual Raster | VRT | vrt |
| ASCII Gridded XYZ | XYZ | xyz |
| Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) | GSBG | grd |
| Arc/Info ASCII Grid | AAIGrid | asc |
| ERMapper .ers Labelled | ERS | ers |
| GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format | GXF | gxf |
| Maptech BSB Nautical Charts | BSB | kap |
| GDAL Raster Tile Index | GTI | |
| Derived datasets using VRT pixel functions | DERIVED | |
| Cloud optimized GeoTIFF generator | COG | |
| National Imagery Transmission Format | NITF | ntf |
| Raster Product Format TOC format | RPFTOC | toc |
| ECRG TOC format | ECRGTOC | xml |
| CEOS SAR Image | SAR_CEOS | |
| CEOS Image | CEOS | |
| JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) | JAXAPALSAR | |
| Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff) | GFF | gff |
| ELAS | ELAS | |
| Esri Compact Cache | ESRIC | |
| Arc/Info Binary Grid | AIG | |
| GRASS ASCII Grid | GRASSASCIIGrid | |
| International Service for the Geoid | ISG | isg |
| SDTS Raster | SDTS | ddf |
| Portable Network Graphics | PNG | png |
| JPEG JFIF | JPEG | jpg |
| In Memory Raster | MEM | |
| Japanese DEM (.mem) | JDEM | mem |
| Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | GIF | gif |
| Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | BIGGIF | gif |
| Envisat Image Format | ESAT | n1 |
| X11 PixMap Format | XPM | xpm |
| MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap | BMP | bmp |
| SPOT DIMAP | DIMAP | |
| AirSAR Polarimetric Image | AirSAR | |
| RadarSat 2 XML Product | RS2 | |
| Sentinel-1 SAR SAFE Product | SAFE | |
| PCIDSK Database File | PCIDSK | pix |
| PCRaster Raster File | PCRaster | map |
| ILWIS Raster Map | ILWIS | |
| SGI Image File Format 1.0 | SGI | rgb |
| SRTMHGT File Format | SRTMHGT | hgt |
| Leveller heightfield | Leveller | ter |
| Terragen heightfield | Terragen | ter |
| Network Common Data Format | netCDF | nc |
| USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) | ISIS3 | |
| USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) | ISIS2 | |
| NASA Planetary Data System | PDS | |
| NASA Planetary Data System 4 | PDS4 | xml |
| MIPL VICAR file | VICAR | |
| EarthWatch .TIL | TIL | |
| JPEG-2000 driver based on JP2OpenJPEG library | JP2OpenJPEG | jp2 |
| NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set | L1B | |
| FIT Image | FIT | |
| GRIdded Binary (.grb, .grb2) | GRIB | |
| Raster Matrix Format | RMF | rsw |
| OGC Web Coverage Service | WCS | |
| OGC Web Map Service | WMS | |
| EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) | MSGN | nat |
| Idrisi Raster A.1 | RST | rst |
| Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) | GSAG | grd |
| Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) | GS7BG | grd |
| COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X) | COSAR | |
| TerraSAR-X Product | TSX | |
| DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster | COASP | hdr |
| R Object Data Store | R | rda |
| OziExplorer .MAP | MAP | |
| Kml Super Overlay | KMLSUPEROVERLAY | |
| WEBP | WEBP | webp |
| Geospatial PDF | ||
| Rasterlite | Rasterlite | sqlite |
| MBTiles | MBTiles | mbtiles |
| Planet Labs Mosaics API | PLMOSAIC | |
| CALS (Type 1) | CALS | |
| OGC Web Map Tile Service | WMTS | |
| Sentinel 2 | SENTINEL2 | |
| Meta Raster Format | MRF | mrf |
| Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) | PNM | |
| PCI .aux Labelled | PAux | |
| Vexcel MFF Raster | MFF | hdr |
| Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster | MFF2 | |
| GSC Geogrid | GSC | |
| EOSAT FAST Format | FAST | |
| VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format | BT | bt |
| Erdas .LAN/.GIS | LAN | |
| Convair PolGASP | CPG | |
| NLAPS Data Format | NDF | |
| Erdas Imagine Raw | EIR | |
| DIPEx | DIPEx | |
| FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) | LCP | lcp |
| NOAA Vertical Datum .GTX | GTX | gtx |
| NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift | LOSLAS | |
| NTv2 Datum Grid Shift | NTv2 | |
| CTable2 Datum Grid Shift | CTable2 | |
| ACE2 | ACE2 | ACE2 |
| Snow Data Assimilation System | SNODAS | hdr |
| KOLOR Raw | KRO | kro |
| ROI_PAC raster | ROI_PAC | |
| R Raster | RRASTER | grd |
| Natural Resources Canada's Geoid | BYN | |
| NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b format | NOAA_B | b |
| NSIDC Sea Ice Concentrations binary (.bin) | NSIDCbin | bin |
| Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) | RIK | rik |
| USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) | USGSDEM | dem |
| Bathymetry Attributed Grid | BAG | bag |
| S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product | S102 | h5 |
| S-104 Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product | S104 | h5 |
| Surface Currents Product | S111 | h5 |
| Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 | HDF5 | |
| HDF5 Dataset | HDF5Image | |
| Northwood Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab | NWT_GRD | grd |
| Northwood Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab | NWT_GRC | grc |
| ARC Digitized Raster Graphics | ADRG | gen |
| Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP) | SRP | img |
| Magellan topo (.blx) | BLX | blx |
| PostGIS Raster driver | PostGISRaster | |
| SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat, .sg-grd-z) | SAGA | |
| HF2/HFZ heightfield raster | HF2 | hf2 |
| OziExplorer Image File | OZI | |
| USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid | CTG | |
| ZMap Plus Grid | ZMap | dat |
| NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids | NGSGEOID | bin |
| IRIS data (.PPI, .CAPPi etc) | IRIS | ppi |
| Racurs PHOTOMOD PRF | PRF | prf |
| Earth Engine Data API Image | EEDAI | |
| Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver | DAAS | |
| Scaled Integer Gridded DEM .sigdem | SIGDEM | sigdem |
| TGA/TARGA Image File Format | TGA | tga |
| OGCAPI | OGCAPI | |
| Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets | STACTA | json |
| Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items | STACIT | |
| GeoPackage | GPKG | |
| ESRI FileGDB | OpenFileGDB | gdb |
| Planet Labs Scenes API | PLSCENES | |
| NextGIS Web | NGW | |
| Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) | GenBin | |
| ESRI .hdr Labelled | EHdr | bil |
| ISCE raster | ISCE | |
| Zarr | Zarr | |
| HTTP Fetching Wrapper | HTTP |
Table 3 : GDAL driver formats that duplicate Native driver formats
| Format | Driver | Extension |
|---|---|---|
| GeoTIFF | GTiff | tif |
| COG | COG | tif |
| PNG | PNG | png |
| JPEG | JPEG | jpg |
| JPEG 2000 | JP2OpenJPEG | jp2 |
| Surfer ASCII Grid | GSAG | grd |
| Surfer Binary Grid | GSBG | grd |
| Surfer 7 Binary Grid | GS7BG | grd |
| ArcInfo ASCII Grid | AAIGrid | asc |
| ArcInfo Binary Grid | AIG | adf |
| ERMapper | ERS | ers |
| BIL/BIP/BSQ | EHdr | bil, bip, bsq, hdr |
| Vertical Mapper Grid | NWT_GRD | grd |
| Vertical Mapper Classified | NWT_GRC | grc |
| HDF5 | HDF5 | h5 |
WMS (Web Map Service) support via GDAL
Web Map Services can be accessed by supplying an XML format local service description file as the “raster”. For information, refer to the WMS format documentation on the GDAL website.
https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/wms.html
A small collection of WMS XML files ship with ProRaster Premium. You will find XML files for Google Maps, Open Street Maps, and other offerings from ESRI, NASA and Amazon. Look in the C:\ProgramData\RGE\WebMaps directory to find these files.