The GDAL Generic Raster reader allows FME to read data from most raster formats supported by GDAL.
See the complete list of GDAL raster formats.
If the format that you are working with is not yet supported, please submit a suggestion to the FME Community.
Overview
The GDAL Generic Raster reader is a meta-reader for all GDAL raster formats that will automatically determine the format of the given file and open it.
GDAL is a library that allows for the reading of many different types of raster and vector formats. The GDAL Generic Raster reader allows you to read almost any raster format supported by the GDAL library.
Because of the generic nature of this reader, format attributes and reader options that are format-specific will not be present.
If more control is desired over how a given dataset is read, we strongly recommend you create a VRT Raster File for your dataset (see here for the format of a VRT file: http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html) and use the VRT Raster (GDAL Virtual Format) Reader.
The following readers will forward any given datasets to the GDAL Generic Raster Reader. (Note that this list does NOT include all the formats that the reader supports.)
|
GDAL Format Name |
FME Short Name (Format Type Identifier) |
|---|---|
| ACE2 (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ACE2 |
| Azavea Raster Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ARG |
| CEOS (Spot for instance) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_COASP |
| Convair PolGASP (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_CPG |
| Earth Observation Satellite (EOSAT) Company FAST (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_FAST |
| EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_TIL |
| Enhanced Compressed Raster Graphic (ECRG) Table Of Contents (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ECRGTOC |
| First Generation USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_DOQ1 |
| Fuji Bio-Imaging Analyzer Systems (BAS) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_FUJIBAS |
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_LAN |
| Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_LCP |
| FARSITE v.4 Landscape (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_LEVELLER |
| Daylon Leveller Heightfield (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_LOSLAS |
| North America Datum Conversion Utility (NADCON) .los/.las Datum Grid Shift (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_MAP |
| OziExplorer .MAP (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_MFF2 |
| Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_GENBIN |
| Golden Software ASCII Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_GSAG |
| Grid eXchange File (GXF) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_GXF |
| Hierarchical Key Value (HKV) (Default 3rd Party Format) | Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) 2 |
| Idrisi Raster (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_RST |
| Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_IDA |
| Interferometric synthetic aperture radar Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ISCE |
| Interactive Radar Information System (IRIS) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_IRIS |
| Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_JAXAPALSAR |
| Japanese DEM (Digital Elevation Model) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_JDEM |
| KRO (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_KRO |
| Magellan BLX Topographical (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_BLX |
| NASA Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ELAS |
| NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Repeat Orbit Interferometry Package (ROI PAC) Raster (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ROI_PAC |
| NASA JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Polarimetric (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_AIRSAR |
| NASA Planetary Data System (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_PDS |
| National Land Archive Production System (NLAPS) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_NDF |
| Netpbm (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_PNM |
| New Labelled USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_DOQ2 |
| NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geoid Height Grids (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_NGSGEOID |
| NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set | GDAL_L1B |
| OziExplorer OZI OZF2/OZFX3 (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_OZI |
| PCI .aux Labelled (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_PAUX |
| PCRaster (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_PCRASTER |
| RadarSat2 XML (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_RS2 |
| Raster Matrix Format (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_RMF |
| Sandia National Laboratories GSat (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_GFF |
| SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) CEOS (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_SAR_CEOS |
| Snow Data Assimilation System (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_SNODAS |
| System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis (SAGA GIS) Binary (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_SAGA |
| Terragen Heightfield (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_TERRAGEN |
| TerraSAR-X (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_TSX |
| TerraSAR-X Complex SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_COSAR |
| USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 2) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ISIS2 |
| USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 3) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_ISIS3 |
| USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Composite Theme Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_CTG |
| Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_MFF |
| Video Image Communication And Retrieval (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_VICAR |
| Virtual Terrain Project Binary Terrain Format (Default 3rd Party Format) | GDAL_BT |
Reader Overview
The GDAL Generic Raster reader outputs one or more raster feature for each input GDAL file. Each GDAL Generic Raster raster band is made of specified bands from specified raster source files.
Coordinate Systems
The GDAL Generic Raster reader supports all spatial reference systems recognized by the GDAL library. Specifying a spatial reference system in a dataset will override that of the underlying dataset (but will not reproject the underlying dataset).
FME Raster Features
FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data.
For comprehensive information about how FME processes raster data, see Rasters.