CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Raster Reader/Writer

FME Format Type Identifier

CSAR

Reader/Writer

Both

Typical File Extensions

.csar

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

CSAR Product and System Requirements

Format

Product

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Desktop License

FME Server

FME Cloud

Windows

Linux

Mac

Reader

Available in all FME editions

Yes

No

32-bit: Yes

64-bit: Yes

No

No

Writer

Available in all FME editions

Yes

No

32-bit: Yes

64-bit: Yes

No

No

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.