Supported Raster and image Data formats

Raster/Image Data Format
ADS
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
AIRSAR Polarimetric
Applanix DSS
ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (ADRG)
ASCII Grid
Band interleaved by line (BIL), band interleaved by pixel (BIP), band sequential (BSQ)
Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG)
Big TIFF
Binary Terrain (BT)
Bitmap (BMP), device-independent bitmap (DIB), or Microsoft Windows bitmap
BSB
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG)
Controlled Image Base (CIB)
Cloud Raster Format (CRF)
Deimos-2
Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard (DIGEST) ARC Standard Raster Product (ASRP), UTM/UPS Standard Raster Product (USRP)
Digital Image Map (DIMAP)
Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) Level 0, 1, and 2
DMCii Satellites
DubaiSat-2
Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS)
Enhanced Compressed Raster Graphic (ECRG)
Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW)
ENVI Header Format
Envisat Image Product (ESAT)
EOSAT FAST
ER Mapper
ERDAS 7.5 GIS
ERDAS 7.5 LAN
ERDAS IMAGINE
ERDAS RAW
Esri Grid
Esri Grid stack
Esri Grid stack file
Extensible N-Dimensional Data Format (NDF)
File geodatabase raster
Floating-point raster file
FORMOSAT-2
GDAL Virtual Format (VRT)
GeoEye satellite
GF-4
Graphic Interchange Format (GIF)
Grid eXchange File (GXF)
GRIB
Golden Software Grid (.grd)
Heightfield raster (HF2)
HGT
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) 4 and 5
High Resolution Elevation (HRE)
IDRISI Raster (RST)
IKONOS satellite
ILWIS Raster Map
Image Display and Analysis (IDA)
Image service (from ArcGIS Server)
Image service definition (.ISDef)
Image service reference (.ISRef)
Integrated System for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS)
Intergraph raster files: CIT—Binary data; COT—Grayscale data
ISAT
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) PALSAR
Jilin-1
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) File Interchange Format (JFIF)
JPEG 2000
KOMPSAT-2
KOMPSAT-3
Landsat satellites (1–8)
LAS (Lidar data files)
LAS dataset
Magellan MapSend BLX/XLB format
MAP
Map service (from ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS.com)
MATCH-AT
Meta Raster Format (MRF)
Multi-Resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
MrSID (MG4) Lidar
National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)
National Land Archive Production System (NLAPS)
New Labeled USGS DOQ (DOQ2)
NITF Version 2.1 Commercial Dataset Required Document (NCDRD)
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
OrbView-3 satellite
PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format
PCIDSK
Personal geodatabase raster
Planetary Data System (PDS)
Pleiades
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
QuickBird satellite
RADARSAT-2 satellite
RapidEye satellite
Raster catalog
Rasters in enterprise geodatabases
Raster process definition (.RPDef)
Raster Product Format (RPF)
SAGA GIS Binary Grid
Sandia Synthetic Aperture Radar (GFF)
Sentinel-1
Sentinel-2
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
SOCET SET
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) digital elevation model (DEM)
SPOT satellites
Tables
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Terragen terrain
Terrain
TerraSAR-X
United States Geological Survey (USGS) digital elevation model (DEM)
Unmanned aerial vehicle/Unmanned aerial system (UAV/UAS)
USGS Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (DOQ)
Web Coverage Service (WCS, OGC standard)
Web Map Service (WMS, OGC standard)
WorldView satellites
X PixMap (XPM)

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