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

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Gdalers:
>
> 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!

Jonathan,

In addition to those mentioned, my favor GDAL supported raster
raster files + ascii header are:

PAux (PCI with .aux - my design!)
EHdr (ESRI BIL with .hdr)
VRT  (you can use a GDAL VRT to describe a raster raster file with
*full* GDAL metadata, etc)

Best regards,
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