Data Formats Supported
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Text Data | Point Clouds |
USGS
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GEOTIFF, single file | GEOTIFF | ESRI Shapefile--the best and most popular vector format | Gazetteer
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LAS/LAZ |
NGA DTED, Levels 0, 1, and 2 | GEOTIFF, multi-file | GeoPDF | Census TIGER shapefile Data | ||
USGS GTOPO30 | |||||
SRTM elevation files (HGT files) | USGS DOQQ | ||||
NGDC Coastal Relief (*.G03) (*.G98) | |||||
NOS EEZ Bathymetry (*.PRU) | MrSid imagery | ||||
NGA VPF (after GDAL import to Shapefile) | |||||
Canadian CDED (USGS ASCII format) | GMT vector format | ||||
ETOPO | NLCD--National Land Cover Database | BLM PLSS Shapefiles | |||
GEOTIFF | e00 files after conversion | ||||
UK OS DEM | |||||
NASA Blue Marble 1 km MODIS imagery | |||||
IBCAO Arctic bathymetry | |||||
ASCII XYZ | SPOT BIL | ||||
Arc/Info E00 files (ASCII) | |||||
LIDAR coastal bathymetry | ArcView BIP | ||||
ADF grids | ESRI IMG (via GDAL) | ||||
BT--Virtual Terrain Project version 1.0 only | ECW (via GDAL) | ||||
ASTER DEMs (Geotiff) | Images (BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, GIF) with world file | ||||
netCDF, digital bathymetry (via GDAL) |
*May not read all variants of these formats
+Uses a converter which imposes some limitations
All data used must be registered, meaning that it has earth coordinates associated with the data. While the program has some capabilities to create and register data sets, this requires a high degree of user sophistication and is not recommended for most users.
Last revised 8/19/2015