# SNODAS – Snow Data Assimilation System

Driver short name

SNODAS

Driver built-in by default

This driver is built-in by default

This is a convenience driver to read Snow Data Assimilation System data. Those files contain Int16 raw binary data. The file to provide to GDAL is the .Hdr file.

Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products at NSIDC

NOTE: Implemented as `gdal/frmts/raw/snodasdataset.cpp`.

## Driver capabilities

Supports Georeferencing

This driver supports georeferencing

Supports VirtualIO

This driver supports virtual I/O operations (/vsimem/, etc.)