CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Raster Reader/Writer

Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.

The CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Raster Reader/Writer provides FME with access to data in the CSAR raster format.

Overview

The CSAR format was developed by CARIS for high volumes of bathymetric data.

Reader Overview

FME considers a single CSAR file to be a dataset.

Writer Overview

FME considers a dataset to be a folder name. The feature type of each dataset is the filename.

FME Raster Features

FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data. The topics below describe how FME processes raster data.

About FME Rasters Tiling and Mosaicking
Raster Properties Band Combining and Separating
Band Properties Band and Palette Selection
Palette Properties Raster Processing
Compression Raster versus Vector Features
Pyramiding Raster File Naming
Interleaving World Files
Interpretation and Data Type TAB Files
Palette Resolution  

CSAR supports rasters with any arbitrary combination of bands.