ERDAS IMAGINE®

SUPPORTED DATA FORMATS

(BY PRODUCT TIER)

Raster Formats
Data Format Direct Read Direct Write Import Export

ADRG Image (.img)   

ADRG Legend (.igg)  
ADRG Overview (.ovr)  
ADRI 
Alaska SAR Facility (.L)  
ALOS AVNIR-2 JAXA CEOS  
ALOS PALSAR ERSDAC CEOS  
ALOS PALSAR ERSDAC VEXCEL  
ALOS PALSAR JAXA CEOS  
ALOS PALSAR-2 JAXA CEOS  
ALOS PRISM JAXA CEOS  
ALOS PRISM JAXA CEOS IMG  
ASCII raster (USGS)  
ASRP  
ASRP (.img)   
ASTER EOS-HDF 
AVHRR (NOAA, NOAA KLM, Dundee, Sharp) 
AVIRIS  
Binary (Generic BIL, BIP, BSQ and Tiled)  
Bitmap (.bmp)  
CADRG, CIB   
COSMO-SkyMed  

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Daedalus (AMS and ABS sensors) 

DEM (SDTS) (.ddf)  
DEM (USGS) (.dem)  
DigitalGlobe TIL (.til)  
Digital Orthophoto Quad (USGS DOQ)  
Digital Orthophoto Quad Keyword Header (USGS DOQ)  
Digital Point Positioning Database (DPPDB) 
DTED   
ECRG, ECIB   
ECRG, ECIB TOC (.xml) 
ENVI (.hdr)  
ENVISAT ASAR  
Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (.ecw)    
Enhanced Compressed Wavelet Protocol (.url) 
ERDAS Annotation (.ant) 
ERDAS Digitize (.dig) 
ERDAS ER Mapper Algorithm (.alg) 
ERDAS ER Mapper (.ers)   
ERDAS ER Mapper Virtual Dataset (.ers) 
ERDAS GIS (.gis)   
ERDAS IMAGINE (.img)  
ERDAS LAN (.lan)   
EROS-A1 Level 1A (ImageSat)  
ERS-1, ERS-2 (CEOS) 

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Data Format Direct Read Direct Write Import Export

ERS-1, ERS 2 (Conae-PAF CEOS) 

ERS-1, ERS-2 (CRISP-PAF CEOS) 
ERS-1, ERS 2 (D-PAF CEOS) 
ERS-1, ERS-2 (H-PAF CEOS) 
ERS-1, ERS-2 (I-PAF CEOS) 
ERS-1, ERS-2 (TelAviv-PAF CEOS) 
ERS-1, ERS-2 (TROMSO-PAF CEOS) 
Esri ArcSDE Raster (.sdi)   
Esri ArcInfo BIL, BIP, BSQ, HDR 
Esri Geodatabase Raster  
Esri GRID and GRID Stack    
FIT  
FORMOSAT-2 DIMAP (.dim)  
Generic Binary (Raw Raster BIL, BIP, BSQ)   
GeoPDF (TerraGo Technologies) 
GeoSPOT (4-band data) 
GeoTIFF    
GIF (.gif)  
GRASS  
HDF-EOS 
HDF-EOS5  
HDF Raster  
HDF4 Raster & Scientific  
HRE (High Resolution Elevation)  
HYDICE (.cub)  

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Hyperion  
Intergraph CCITT Group 4 (.cit)  
Intergraph COT  
Intergraph ISAT  
IRS-1C/1D (Super Structure format) 
IRS-1C/1D/P6 (EOSAT Fast Format C and Euromap Fast
Format C) 
IRS-P4 OCM (Super Structure format) 
JFIF (JPEG) (.jpg)   
JPEG2000 including GeoJP2 and GMLJP2 (.jp2, .j2k, .j2c, .jpc,
.jpx, jpf)    
KOMPSAT  
Landsat 7 CEOS (Eurimage) 
Landsat 7 Fast-L7A (ACRES, EROS, Eurimage) 
Landsat 7 HDF 
Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 USGS (.tar.gz) 
Landsat MSS 
Landsat TM Fast Format (ACRES, EOSAT, ESA, IRS, Radarsat) 
Landsat TM Standard Format (ACRES, EOSAT, ESA, IRS,
Radarsat) 
Leica ADS40, ADS80, ADS100, RCD 30 (.ads, .sup)  
Leica ALS60, ALS70 (.las)  
MODIS (HDF-EOS) 
MODIS (IMAPP format) 
MrSID (Generation 2) (.sid)    
MrSID (Generation 3 – Geo Express) (.sid)    
NASDA CEOS 

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NDF (NLAPS Data Format) 

Neva Ridge PAR binary (.par) 
NITF 1.1 and 2.x    
NSIF 
Oracle GeoRaster (.ogr)   
PCI Geomatics PCIDISK (*.pix)  
PCX raster   
Pleiades DIMAP, DIMAP v2 (.xml)  
PNG  
RADARSAT CEOS format 
RADARSAT-2 (product.xml)  
RapidEye (.xml)  
Raw (.raw) 
RISAT CEOS  
RPF CADRG and CIB   
RPF Frame and Product 
RPF Overview  
RPF TOC (.toc) 
SDTS Raster  
SeaWiFS HDF 
SeaWiFS level 1B & 2A data (OrbView CEOS format) 
SOCET SET GRID (.dth)  
SOCET SET Support (.sup)  
SPOT 5 GeoTIFF 

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SPOT CAP/SPIM 
SPOT CCRS 
SPOT DIMAP  
SPOT 6, 7 DIMAP v2  
SPOT Fast Format 
SPOT GIS GeoSPOT, SPOTView, & METROView 
SPOT NASDA CAP 
SPOT SICORP MetroView 
SPOT XS, XI, Pan & P/XI (SPOT, ACRES, CCRS) 
Sub-Image (.sbi) 
Sun Raster  
Surfer (Binary, ASCII, Surfer 7) 
Surfer Grid   
Targa  
TanDEM-X (TDX1*.xml)  
TerraSAR-X (TSX1*.xml)  
THEOS DIMAP  
TIFF (including GeoTIFF and TIFF World), also known as
TIFF32    
TIFF64 (including Big TIFF, BigGeoTIFF)    
Unrestricted Access Image (*.uai) 
USRP (.img)   
View (.vue) 
VITEC (.vit) 
Virtual Mosaic (.vmc, .vmcx) 

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Virtual Stack (.vsk) 

Web Coverage Service (.wcs) 
Web Mapping Service (.wms) 

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Vector / Point Cloud / TIN / Other Formats

Data Format Direct Read Direct Write Import Export

Applanix POSEO 
ASCII to Annotation (.ovr) 
DXF to ERDAS IMAGINE Annotation  
ERDAS 7.x Annotation (.ant) 
ERDAS IMAGINE Annotation layers (.ovr)   
ERDAS IMAGINE Area of Interest layers (.aoi)   
ERDAS IMAGINE Map Composition (.map)   
Esri 2D & 3D Shapefiles (.shp)    
Esri ArcIMS  
Esri ArcInfo Coverages (8.x, 7.x, 6.x, 3.5)  
Esri ArcSDE Vectors (.sdv)   
Esri Geodatabase Vector Features (.gdb)   
Hexagon Point Cloud (.hpc)  
Hexagon Point Cloud proxy (.hpcp) 
Inpho Project (.prj)  
Intergraph GeoMedia Warehouse (.gwp)    
Intergraph ISAT  
Leica Terrain Format (.ltf, .ltfx)  

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LIDAR LAS Point Cloud (LAS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4) (.las)    
LIDAR LAZ Point Cloud (.laz)   
MrSID Point Cloud (.sid) 
MultiGen OpenFlight FLT 
Oracle Spatial Feature   
SOCET SET Project (.prj)  
Terramodel TIN Project files (.pro)  
UDS Point Cloud (.uds) 

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