[gdal-dev] Which formats are just flat binary files plus a header?

[Martin Lambers]

Hi Jonathan!

On Thu, 3 May 2012 10:35:57 -0500, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> I'm working on some parallel processing routines via rgdal and R, but
> thought this question was better answered here.  I'm trying to find
> out which raster formats are simply a flat binary file an a header.
> ENVI is the one that springs to mind.  We're trying to work up which
> files can be "natively" written as flat binaries where all we have to
> do after the file is written is setup the correct header.  Thanks!

GTA is header + flat binary if compression is switched off.

Martin