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

Important  CSAR requires a separate install of the MSVC 2013 Redistributable. Due to security concerns, the deprecated runtime is not included with FME.

Format

FME Platform

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Form

FME Flow

FME Flow Hosted

Windows 64-bit

Linux

Mac

Reader

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Writer

Yes

Yes

No

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.

For comprehensive information about how FME processes raster data, see Rasters.

CSAR supports rasters with any arbitrary combination of bands.