GDAL

About

GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application. The related OGR library provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.

Features

• Translate between 100+ raster and vector formats
• Reproject and warp rasters
• Command-line utilities and C/C++/Python APIs
• Virtual raster (VRT) support
• OGR vector abstraction with SQL queries
• Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF read and write

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