CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Raster Reader/Writer

Licensing options for this format begin with FME Desktop 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.