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## GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

## Overview

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an Open Source license. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats.

Maintainer: Frank Warmerdam.

## Status

GDAL is in active use in a few projects, and includes a number of formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine (read), ESRI .BIL (read/write), .aux labelled raw (read/write), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read) and Arc/Info Binary Grid (read).

I have created the gdal-dev@egroups.com mailing list. Subscriptions can be done, and archives reviewed on the web.

Incomplete (but useful) API Documentation exists for GDAL, and was created using Doxygen (as was this page).

## Related Projects

- My other projects, many of which are incorporated into GDAL.

- RemoteSensing.ORG: An organization for cooperative OpenSource work related to remote sensing. GDAL is hosted at remotesensing.org.

- OGRSpatialReference: My OGR encapsulation of OpenGIS projection definitions.

- OpenEV: An OpenGL/GTK/Python based graphical viewer which exclusively uses GDAL for raster access.

- OSSIM: Another geospatial viewing and analysis environment which uses GDAL as one of several plugins.