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.
CSAR Product and System Requirements
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Format |
Product |
Operating System |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Reader/Writer |
FME Desktop License |
FME Server |
FME Cloud |
Windows |
Linux |
Mac |
|
Reader |
Available in FME Professional Edition and higher |
Yes |
No |
32-bit: Yes 64-bit: Yes |
No |
No |
|
Writer |
Available in FME Professional Edition and higher |
Yes |
No |
32-bit: Yes 64-bit: Yes |
No |
No |
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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.
CSAR supports rasters with any arbitrary combination of bands.