[Gdal-dev] ERMapper .ers ?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ben Discoe wrote:
> I've been asked about the ERMapper .ers format... could GDAL read/write it?
> It seems to be an open format, in that ERMapper generally encourages people
> to use their format.  It is a raster format, i think?

Ben,

 From a few samples I have seen I gather the .ers file is basically an ascii
header describing an external raster file which can be in any number of formats.
I presume there is some raw raster format for files generated within ERMapper.
I think that in some cases the .ers file is also an algorithm description of
how to generate a raster from other files.

However, I'm not really very sure of any of this.

If folks want to scare up some examples datasets (not too huge I hope) I
could look at implementing some degree of support.

Best regards,
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