Data Format of ArcGIS
ArcGIS users to integrate, use, and distribute data in many formats.
An ArcGIS lets work with a number of File/Data Formats from many sources.
ArcGIS Supported Data Formats
| Data Format (short form) | Data Description (full form) |
|---|---|
| 3DS | Autodesk 3ds |
| ADRG | ARC Digitized Raster Graphics ADRG |
| ACAD | Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF |
| ADAC | Australian Asset Design and As Constructed |
| PRC | Adobe PRC |
| AIS | NMEA Automatic Identification System |
| AIXM | Aeronautical Information Exchange Model 4.5 |
| AIXM5 | Aeronautical Information Exchange Model 5.x |
| AML | Additional Military Layers |
| ARCGEN | Esri ArcInfo Generate |
| ARCGISFEATURES | Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service |
| ARCGISMAP | Esri ArcGIS Map Document |
| ARCGISONLINEFEATURES | Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Services |
| ARCGIS_LAYER | Esri ArcGIS Layer |
| ARCINFO | Esri ArcInfo Coverage |
| ARCPADAXF | Esri ArcPad Exchange Format(AXF) |
| ARCVIEWGRID | Esri ArcGIS Binary Grid (AIG) |
| ASRP | ARC Standard Raster Produc |
| ATHENA | Amazon Athena |
| AVF | Apple Venue Format |
| AZURE_TABLE | Microsoft Windows Azure Table |
| BAG | Bathymetric Attributed Grid |
| BCF | BIM Collaboration Format |
| BMP | Microsoft Bitmap |
| BSB | Maptech BSB Nautical Chart |
| CADRG | Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics |
| CALS | Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Suppor |
| CARTO | Carto |
| CAT | Column Aligned Text |
| CDED | Canadian Digital Elevation Data |
| CH.EHI.FME.MAIN | Swiss INTERLIS (ili2fme) |
| CESIUM3DPC | Cesium 3D Point Cloud |
| CESIUM3DTILES | Cesium 3D Tiles |
| CGDEF | ComGraphix Data Exchange Format |
| CIB | Controlled Image Base |
| CITYGML | CityGML |
| CIVIL3D | Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D |
| CLOUDSPANNER_JDBC | Google Cloud Spanner |
| COLLADA | Collaborative Design Activity |
| COM.ACTIAN.INGRES.INGRES | Actian Ingres Spatial |
| GCOM.ACTIAN.INGRES.INGRES_DB | Actian Ingres Nonspatial |
| COUCHDB | CouchDB |
| CSV | Comma-Separated Value |
| CUZK_GML | Czech Republic |
| DATAFILE | Data File |
| DB2 | IBM DB2 Nonspatial |
| DB2SPATIAL | IBM DB2 Spatial |
| DB2SPATIAL_DASHDB | IBM dashDB Spatial |
| DB2_DASHDB | IBM dashDB Non-Spatial |
| DBF | dBASE |
| DELORME_GPL | DeLorme GPS Track Logs (GPL) Reader |
| DENODO | Implicit dependency on third-party JDBC Drivers |
| DGNV8 | Bentley MicroStation Design (V8) |
| DIRECTX | DirectX X File |
| DLG | Digital Line Graph |
| DMDF | Digital Map Data Format |
| DNF | OS (GB) MasterMap |
| DSFL | Danish DSFL |
| DSFLW2 | Danish DSFL Writer V.2 |
| DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data |
| DWF | Autodesk AutoCAD DWF |
| DYNAMODB | Amazon DynamoDB |
| E00 | Esri ArcInfo Export |
| E57 | ASTM E57 |
| ELASTICSEARCH | Elastic Elasticsearch |
| ENVIHDR | ITT ENVI .hdr RAW Raster |
| EPA_GDXML | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Geospatial Data |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript |
| ERDAS | ERDAS IMAGINE |
| ERDASRAW | ERDAS RAW |
| ERS | ER Mapper ERS |
| ESF | BC MoF Electronic Submission Framework |
| ESRIASCIIGRID | Esri ASCII Grid |
| ESRIHDR | ITT ENVI .hdr RAW Raster |
| ESRIJSON | Esri JavaScript Object Notat |
| ESRIMSD | Esri Mapping Specification for CAD |
| ESRISHAPE | Esri Shapefile |
| FACET | Facet XDR |
| FBX | Autodesk FBX |
| FFS | FME Feature Store |
| FILECOPY | File Copy |
| FILEGDB | Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API) |
| FME_AR_FILE | FME Augmented Reality (AR) |
| FM0 | Intergraph GeoMedia Access Warehouse |
| FM0_SQL | Intergraph GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouse |
| FMW | FME Workspace |
| GARMIN_GDB | Garmin GDB |
| GARMIN_MPI | Garmin MapSource |
| GARMIN_POI | Garmin POI |
| GDAL_ACE2 | ACE2 (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_AIRSAR | NASA JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Polarimetric (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_ARG | Azavea Raster Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_BLX | Magellan BLX Topographical (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_BT | Virtual Terrain Project Binary Terrain Format (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_COASP | CEOS (Spot for instance) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_COSAR | TerraSAR-X Complex SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_CPG | Convair PolGASP (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_CTG | USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Composite Theme Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_DOQ1 | First-Generation USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_DOQ2 | New Labelled USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_E00GRID | Arc/Info Export E00 GRID (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_ECRGTOC | Enhanced Compressed Raster Graphic (ECRG) Table Of Contents (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_ELAS | NASA Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_FAST | Earth Observation Satellite (EOSAT) Company FAST (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_FUJIBAS | Fuji Bio-Imaging Analyzer Systems (BAS) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_GENBIN | Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_GENERIC_RASTER | GDAL Generic Raster |
| GDAL_GFF | Sandia National Laboratories GSat (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_GSAG | Golden Software ASCII Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_DXF | Grid eXchange File (GXF) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_IDA | Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_IRIS | Interactive Radar Information System (IRIS) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_ISIS2 | USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 2) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_ISIS3 | USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 3) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_JAXAPALSAR | Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_JDEM | Japanese Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_JEFF | Fake format |
| GDAL_KRO | KRO (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_LB1 | NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set – Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_LAN | Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_LCP | FARSITE v.4 Landscape (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_LEVELLER | Daylon Leveller Heightfield (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_LOSLAS | North America Datum Conversion Utility (NADCON) .los/.las Datum Grid Shift (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_MAP | OziExplorer .MAP (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_MFF | Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_MFF2 | Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) 2 – Hierarchical Key Value (HKV) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_NDR | National Land Archive Production System (NLAPS) (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_NGSGEOID | NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geoid Height Grids (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_OZI | OziExplorer OZI OZF2/OZFX3 (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_PAUX | PCI .aux Labelled (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_PCRASTER | PCRaster (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_PDS | NASA Planetary Data System (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_PNM | Netpbm (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_ROI_PAC | NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Repeat Orbit Interferometry Package (ROI PAC) Raster (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_RS2 | RadarSat2 XML (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_SAGA | System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis (SAGA GIS) Binary (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_SAR_CEOS | Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) CEOS (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_SNODAS | Snow Data Assimilation System (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_TERRAGEN | Terragen Heightfield (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_TIL | EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_TSX | TerraSAR-X (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDAL_VICAR | Video Image Communication And Retrieval (Default 3rd Party Format) |
| GDMS | Geographic Data Management System |
| GENAMAP | Genasys GenaMap |
| GTFS | General Transit Feed Specification |
| GENERIC | Generic (Any Format) |
| GEODATABASE_FILE | Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase ArcObjects) |
| GEODATABASE_FILE_MOSAIC_DATASET | Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Mosaic Dataset) |
| GEODATABASE_FILE_MOSAIC_CATALOG | Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Raster Catalog) |
| GEODATABASE_FILE_RASTER_DATASET | Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Raster Dataset) |
| GEODATABASE_SDE_MOSAIC_DATASET | Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Mosaic Dataset) |
| GEODATABASE_SDE_MOSAIC_CATALOG | Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Raster Catalog) |
| GEODATABASE_SDE_RASTER_DATASET | Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Raster Dataset) |
| GEODATABASE_MDB | Esri Geodatabase (Personal Geodatabase) |
| GEODATABASE_SDE | Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase) |
| GEODATABASE_XML | Esri Geodatabase (XML Workspace Document) |
| GEOHASH | Geohash |
| GEOJSON | Geographic JavaScript Object Notation |
| Esri Community | NGA Esri Community Names Server |
| GEOPACKAGE | OGC GeoPackage |
| GEOPACKAGE_RASTER | OGC GeoPackage Tiles |
| GEORSS | GeoRSS/RSS Feed |
| GEOTIFF | Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format |
| GG | Bentley MicroStation GeoGraphics |
| GIF | GIF Rasterizer |
| GIFRASTER | Graphic Interchange Format Raster |
| GLTF | GL Transmission Format |
| GML | Geography Markup Language |
| GML2 | GML v2.1.2 |
| GML212 | GML v2.1.2 |
| GMLSF | GML SF-0 (Geography Markup Language Simple Features Level SF-0 Profile) |
| GOOGLEBIGQUERY | Google BigQuery |
| GOOGLESHEETS | Google Sheet |
| GOOGLEFUSIONTABLES | Google Fusion Tables Spatial |
| GOOGLEFUSIONTABLES_DB | Google Fusion Tables Non-Spatial |
| GOOGLEMAPSENGINETABLES | Google Maps Engine (GME) Tables |
| GPX | GPS eXchange Format (GPX) |
| GRIB | World Meteorological Organization GRIB (GRIdded Binary) |
| HDF4_ASTER | Hierarchical Data Format 4 ASTER |
| HDF4_HYPERION | Hierarchical Data Format 4 Hyperion |
| GRD | PenMetrics GRD |
| GUESS_FROM_EXTENSION | Guess format name from extension |
| HTMLTABLE | HTML Table |
| HYD93 | NGDC Hydrographic Surveys Data Exchange |
| HYPACKBRD | Hypack Border |
| CLOUDANT | IBM Cloudant |
| I2KGML | Swedish I2K/G2K (Interface 2000 GML) |
| I3S | Esri Indexed 3D Scene Layer |
| INFX_JDBC_NONSPATIAL | IBM Informix Non-Spatia |
| IDRISI | IDRISI Vector Format |
| IDRISI_RASTER | IDRISI Raster Format |
| IEPS | Adobe Illustrator EPS |
| IFC | Industry Foundation Class STEP Files |
| IFF | 1Spatial Internal Feature Format |
| IGDS | Bentley MicroStation Design |
| IMDF | Indoor Mapping Data Forma |
| INGR | Intergraph Raster |
| IMX | Autodesk IMX (FDO) |
| INFX | IBM Informix |
| INFXSPATIAL | IBM Informix Spatial |
| INDOORGML | Indoor GML |
| INSPIRE | INSPIRE GML |
| ISCE | Interferometric synthetic aperture radar Scientific Computing Environment |
| ISO8211 | ISO8211 |
| IUF | Land Victoria Incremental Update Format (IUF) |
| COM.SAFE.FME.JDBC | Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) |
| DB2_JDBC_NONSPATIAL | IBM DB2 Non-Spatial (JDBC) |
| JDBC | Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) |
| JOBXML | Trimble JobXML |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Grou |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| KF85 | Swedish KF85 |
| KOMMUNGML | KommunGML (Sweden) |
| KUNTAGML | KuntaGML (Finland) |
| LANDONLINE | Landonline (Land Information New Zealand Cadastre Survey Data Exchange Format based on LandXML) |
| LANDSAT8 | Landsat-8 |
| LANDSAT*AWS | Landsat-8 on AWS |
| LANDXML | LandXML |
| LAS | ASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format |
| MASIK | Swedish MASIK |
| MBTILES | SQLite MBTiles |
| MCF | STAR-APIC Mercator MCF |
| MDB_ADO | Microsoft Access |
| MGE | Intergraph MGE |
| MIF | MapInfo MIF/MID |
| MINECRAFT | Mojang Minecraft |
| MITAB | MapInfo TAB |
| MOEP | B.C. MOEP |
| MONGODB | MongoDB |
| MRF | Meta Raster Format |
| MSACCESS_JDBC | Microsoft Access (JDBC) |
| MSSQL_ADO | Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial |
| MSSQL_JDBC_SPATIAL | Microsoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) |
| MSSQL_JDBC_NONSPATIAL | Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial (JDBC) |
| MSSQL_SPATIAL | MSSQL_SPATIAL |
| MSSQL_SPATIAL | Microsoft SQL Server Spatial |
| DOCUMENTDB | Microsoft Azure DocumentDB |
| MSSQL_AZURE | Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial |
| MSSQL_JDBC_AZURE_NONSPATIAL | Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (JDBC) |
| MSSQL_AZURE_SPATIAL | Microsoft Azure SQL Database Spatial |
| MSWORD | Microsoft Word |
| MTKGML | NLSF Topographic GML (MTKGML) |
| MYSQL | MariaDB (MySQL compatible) Spatial |
| MYSQL_AURORA_NONSPATIAL | Amazon Aurora Non-Spatial |
| MYSQL_AURORA_SPATIAL | Amazon Aurora Spatial |
| MYSQL_DB | MariaDB (MySQL compatible) Non-Spatial |
| MYSQL_GOOGLE | Google Cloud SQL Spatial |
| MYSQL_GOOGLE_DB | Google Cloud SQL Non-Spatial |
| NEN3610 | NEN 3610 (GML) |
| NAS | German AAA GML Exchange Format (NAS) |
| NETCDF | NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) |
| NGRID | MapInfo Vertical Mapper Grid (NGrid) |
| NITF | National Imagery Transmission Format (JITC uncertified) |
| NMEA_GPS | NMEA GPS |
| NTF | OS (GB) NTF |
| NULL | NULL (Nothing) |
| OBJ | Wavefront OBJ |
| ODATA | OData |
| ODBC2 | ODBC 3.x |
| OGCKML | Google Earth KML |
| OGDI | Microsoft OGDI Data Lab |
| OGEOSMS | OGC Open GeoSMS |
| OPENFLIGHT | Presagis .flt |
| ORACLE_RELATIONAL | Oracle Spatial Relational |
| ORACLE_SPATIAL | Oracle Spatial Object |
| ORACLE_NONSPATIAL | Oracle Non-Spatial |
| ORACLEPOINTCLOUD | Oracle Spatial Point Cloud |
| ORACLERASTER | Oracle Spatial GeoRaster |
| OSG | OpenSceneGraphic OSGB/OSGT |
| OSM | OpenStreetMap XML |
| OSMPBF | OpenStreetMa Protocolbuffer Binary Format |
| OSVECTORMAPDISTRICT | OS VectorMap District |
| OSVECTORMAPLOCAL | OS VectorMap Local |
| P190 | PGP P1/90 Post Plot Positioning Data |
| PATH | Directory or File Pathnames |
| PCARCINFO | Esri PC ArcInfo Coverage |
| PCD | Point Cloud Data |
| PCIDSK | PCI Geomatics Database File (PCIDSK) |
| Adobe 3D PDF | |
| PDF2D | Adobe Geospatial PDF |
| PHOCUS | Phocus Phodat |
| PLANETDATA | Planet Data |
| PNG | PNG Rasterizer |
| PNGRASTER | Portable Network Graphic Raster |
| POINTCLOUDXYZ | Point Cloud XYZ |
| ARCGISPORTALFEATURES | Portal for ArcGIS |
| POSTGIS | PostGIS |
| POSTGISRASTER | POSTGIS Raster |
| POSTGRES | PostgreSQL |
| POWERPOINT | Microsoft PowerPoint |
| QLF | CITS Data Transfer Forma |
| QVX | Qlik data eXchange |
| RADARSAT2 | RADARSAT-2 XML |
| RADATA | R Statistical Data (RDATA) Non-Spatial |
| RADATARASTER | R Statistical Data (RDATA) Array as Raster |
| RDB | RIEGL Laser Scan Database |
| RDB_PROJECT | RIEGL RDB Project |
| REDSHIFT | Amazon Redshift |
| REGIS | Regional Geographic Information System |
| REVIT | Autodesk Revit |
| S57 | S-57 (ENC) Hydrographic Data |
| SAP_HANA_NONSPATIAL | SAP HANA Non-Spatial |
| SAP_HANA_SPATIAL | SAP HANA Spatial |
| SAP_SYBASE_ASE | SAP Sybase ASE |
| SAIF | Spatial Archive and Interchange Format |
| SALESFORCE | Salesforce |
| SAS | Statistical Analysis System |
| SAV | IBM PASW (SPSS) .sav |
| SCHEMA | Schema (Any Format) |
| SCHEMA_FROM_TABLE | Schema (From Table) |
| SDE30 | Esri ArcSDE |
| SDF3 | Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise SDF |
| SDL | Autodesk MapGuide SDL |
| SDERASTER | Esri Legacy ArcSDE Raster |
| SDERASTERCATALOG | Esri Legacy ArcSDE Raster Catalog |
| SDERASTERMAP | Esri Legacy ArcSDE Raster Map |
| SDTS | Spatial Data Transfer Standard |
| SEABEDML | SeabedML (GML) |
| SEG-P1 | SEG-P1 |
| SEGY | SEG-Y |
| SENTINEL1 | Sentinel-1 SAR SAFE |
| SENTINEL2 | Sentinel-2 MSI SAFE |
| SENTINEL2AWS | Sentinel-2 on AWS |
| SGI | SGI IMAGE |
| SHAPE | Esri Shape |
| SHAREPOINT | Microsoft SharePoint List |
| SKP | Google SketchUp |
| SLF | Standard Linear Format |
| SOCRATA | Socrata |
| SOSI_GML | SOSI GML |
| SPATIALITE | SpatiaLite |
| SQLITE3 | SQLite Non-Spatial |
| SQLLDR | Oracle SQL Loader |
| SRTMHGT | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Height |
| STL | Standard Triangle/Tesselation Language |
| STRUMAP | Northgate StruMap |
| SUNRASTER | Sun Raster |
| SURFERBINARY | Golden Software Surfer Binary Grid |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SXF | Panorama Storage and eXchange Format |
| TERADATA_JDBC_NONSPATIAL | Teradata Non-Spatial |
| TERADATA_JDBC_SPATIAL | Teradata Spatial |
| TERRAINTILESAWS | Terrain Tiles on AWS |
| TERRASCAN | Terrasolid TerraScan |
| TETGEN | TetGen |
| TEXTLINE | Text File |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TIGER | U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line |
| TIGERGML | U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/GML |
| TOMTOM_POI | TomTom POI |
| TOP10 | Dutch TOP10 GML |
| TOP50NL | Dutch TOP50NL GML |
| UFO | Danish UFO |
| USGS_DEM | U.S. Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model |
| VML | Vector Markup Language |
| VRT_RASTER | VRT Raster (GDAL Virtual Format) |
| VPF_DB | Vector Product Format Database |
| VRML97 | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| VRT | OGR Virtual Dataset |
| WEBP | Google WebP |
| WFS | Web Feature Service |
| WHITESTAR | Halliburton GeoGraphix CDF |
| WKB | OGC Well Known Binary |
| WKT | OGC Well Known Text |
| WLAS | Well Log Ascii Standard |
| WMS | Web Map Service |
| X3D | X3D Format |
| X3D_VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| XDK | XML format for Danish DSFL |
| XLS_ADO | Microsoft Excel |
| XLSXR | Microsoft Excel |
| XLSXW | Microsoft Excel |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XPW | X11 Pixmap |
| XYZ | Space Delimited XYZ |
| Z-MAP_ASCII | Landmark Z-Map (ASCII) |
| ZFS | Z+F LaserControl ZFS |
| ZGF | Landmark Zycor Graphics File |
| ZMAP | Landmark Z-Map (ASCII) |
| ZMAPRASTER | Landmark Z-Map Grid |
| ZMAPRAW | Landmark Z-Map Vector |
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