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

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Thanks!  This was really helpful!  Cheers!

--j

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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