FME can read data from most raster formats supported by GDAL. This allows you to add rasters to your GIS, BIM, and other data workflows supported by FME.
If the format that you are working with is not yet supported, please submit a suggestion to the FME Community.
Overview
The GDAL Generic Raster reader is a meta-reader for all GDAL raster formats that will automatically determine the format of the given file and open it.
GDAL is a library that allows for the reading of many different types of raster and vector formats. The GDAL Generic Raster reader allows you to read almost any raster format supported by the GDAL library.
Because of the generic nature of this reader, format attributes and format-specific reader options will not be present.
If more control is desired over how a given dataset is read, we strongly recommend you create a VRT Raster File for your dataset (see here for the format of a VRT file: http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html) and use the VRT Raster (GDAL Virtual Format) Reader.
The readers listed in the table below will forward any given datasets to the GDAL Generic Raster Reader. Safe Software has not added specific user options, logging, or attributes to this reader, and so support may not be as optimal as native formats.
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FME Short Name (Format Type Identifier) |
Category |
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|---|---|---|
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ACE2 (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ACE2 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Azavea Raster Grid (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ARG |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
CEOS (Spot for instance) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_COASP |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Convair PolGASP (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_CPG |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Daylon Leveller Heightfield (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_LEVELLER |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
North America Datum Conversion Utility (NADCON) .los/.las Datum Grid Shift (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_LOSLAS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Earth Observation Satellite (EOSAT) Company FAST (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_FAST |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_TIL |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Enhanced Compressed Raster Graphic (ECRG) Table Of Contents (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ECRGTOC |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_LAN |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
FARSITE v.4 Landscape (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_LCP |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
First Generation USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_DOQ1 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_GENBIN |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Golden Software ASCII Grid (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_GSAG |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Grid eXchange File (GXF) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_GXF |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Idrisi Raster (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_RST |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Interactive Radar Information System (IRIS) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_IRIS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ISCE |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_JAXAPALSAR |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Japanese DEM (Digital Elevation Model) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_JDEM |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
KRO (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_KRO |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Magellan BLX Topographical (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_BLX |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
NASA Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ELAS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Point Clouds – Rasters |
|
NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Repeat Orbit Interferometry Package (ROI PAC) Raster (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ROI_PAC |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
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NASA JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Polarimetric (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_AIRSAR |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
NASA Planetary Data System (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_PDS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
National Land Archive Production System (NLAPS) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_NDF |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Netpbm (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_PNM |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
New Labelled USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_DOQ2 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geoid Height Grids (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_NGSGEOID |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
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NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set AVHRR (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_L1B |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
North America Datum Conversion Utility (NADCON) .los/.las Datum Grid Shift (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_LOSLAS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
OziExplorer .MAP (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_MAP |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
OziExplorer OZI OZF2/OZFX3 (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_OZI |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
PCI .aux Labelled (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_PAUX |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
PCRaster (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_PCRASTER |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
RadarSat2 XML (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_RS2 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Raster Matrix Format (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_RMF |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Sandia National Laboratories GSat (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_GFF |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) CEOS (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_SAR_CEOS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Snow Data Assimilation System (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_SNODAS |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis (SAGA GIS) Binary (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_SAGA |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Terragen Heightfield (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_TERRAGEN |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
TerraSAR-X (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_TSX |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
TerraSAR-X Complex SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_COSAR |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 2) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ISIS2 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 3) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_ISIS3 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Composite Theme Grid (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_CTG |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
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Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_MFF |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
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Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) 2 - Hierarchical Key Value (HKV) (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_MFF2 |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
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Video Image Communication And Retrieval (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_VICAR |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
|
Virtual Terrain Project Binary Terrain Format (via GDAL Format) |
GDAL_BT |
– Coordinates – Geometries – Rasters |
Reader Overview
The GDAL Generic Raster reader outputs one or more raster feature for each input GDAL file. Each GDAL Generic Raster raster band is made of specified bands from specified raster source files.
Coordinate Systems
The GDAL Generic Raster reader supports all spatial reference systems recognized by the GDAL library. Specifying a spatial reference system in a dataset will override that of the underlying dataset (but will not reproject the underlying dataset).
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.