# ELAS - Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software

Driver short name

ELAS

Driver built-in by default

This driver is built-in by default

ELAS is an old remote sensing system still used for a variety of research projects within NASA. The ELAS format support can be found in elas.

## Driver capabilities

Supports CreateCopy()

This driver supports the `GDALDriver::CreateCopy()` operation

Supports Create()

This driver supports the `GDALDriver::Create()` operation

Supports Georeferencing

This driver supports georeferencing

Supports VirtualIO

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

## See Also

- Short announcement of ELAS driver in GDAL

- NASA Software Used In Imaging Service includes ELAS overview