# GDAL Raster Formats

Long Format Name | Code | Creation | Georeferencing | Maximum file size1
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Arc/Info ASCII Grid | AAIGrid | Yes | Yes | No limits
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) | AIG | No | Yes | --
AIRSAR Polarimetric | AIRSAR | No | No | --
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp) | BMP | Yes | Yes | 4GiB
BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap) | BSB | No | Yes | --
VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt) | BT | Yes | Yes | --
CEOS (Spot for instance) | CEOS | No | No | --
First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq) | DOQ1 | No | Yes | --
New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq) | DOQ2 | No | Yes | --
Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1) | DTED | No | Yes | --
ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (.ecw) | ECW | Yes | Yes |
ESRI .hdr Labelled | EHdr | No | Yes | --
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster | ENVI | Yes | Yes | No limits
Envisat Image Product (.n1) | Envisat | No | No | --
EOSAT FAST Format | FAST | No | Yes | --
FITS (.fits) | FITS | Yes | No |
Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) | GIF | Yes | No | 2GB
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) | GIO | Yes | Yes |
GRASS Rasters | GRASS | No | Yes | --
TIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif) | GTiff | Yes | Yes | 4GiB
Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4) | HDF4 | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
Erdas Imagine (.img) | HFA | Yes | Yes | No limits2
Atlantis MFF2e | HKV | Yes | Yes | No limits
Japanese DEM (.mem) | JDEM | No | Yes | --
JPEG JFIF (.jpg) | JPEG | Yes | Yes | 4GiB (max dimentions 65500x65500)
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) | JPEG2000 | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
JPEG2000 (.jp2, .j2k) | JP2KAK | Yes | Yes | No limits
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) | L1B | No | Yes | --
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS | LAN | No | Yes | 2GB
In Memory Raster | MEM | Yes | Yes | 2GiB
Atlantis MFF | MFF | Yes | Yes | No limits
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database | MrSID | No | Yes | --
NITF | NITF | Yes | Yes |
NetCDF | netCDF | Yes | Yes | 2GB
OGDI Bridge | OGDI | No | Yes | --
PCI .aux Labelled | PAux | Yes | No | No limits
PCI Geomatics Database File | PCIDSK | Yes | Yes | No limits
Portable Network Graphics (.png) | PNG | Yes | No |
PCRaster (.map) | PCRaster | Yes | No |
Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm) | PNM | Yes | No | No limits
RadarSat2 XML (product.xml) | RS2 | No | Yes | 4GB
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF) | SDTS | No | Yes | --
SAR CEOS | SAR_CEOS | No | Yes | --
USGS ASCII DEM (.dem) | USGSDEM | No | Yes | --
X11 Pixmap (.xpm) | XPM | Yes | No |

1Maximum file size does not only determined by the file format itself, but operating system/file system capabilities as well. Look here for details.

2ERDAS Imagine has different file format for large files, where 32-bit pointers cannot be used. Look for details here.