<html> <head> <title>GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library</title> </head> <!-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The master version of this file is gdal_index.html, don't edit index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <center> <a href="hierarchy.html">Class Hierarchy</a> <a href="annotated.html">Compound List</a> <a href="files.html">File List</a> <a href="functions.html">Compound Members</a> <a href="globals.html">File Members</a> <a href="pages.html">Related Pages</a> </center> <hr> <h1>GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library</h1> GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an <a href="http://www.opensource.org/"> Open Source</a> license. As a library, it presents a <a href="gdal_datamodel.html"> single abstract data model</a> to the calling application for all supported formats. The related <a href="http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/">OGR</a> library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.<P> Master Page: <a href="http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/index.html"> http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/index.html</a><br> Maintainer: <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">Frank Warmerdam</a>.<p> <h2>Status</h2> GDAL is in active use in a few projects, and includes a number of formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine (read/write), ESRI .BIL (read), .aux labelled raw (read/write), DTED (read), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read), JPEG (read/write), PNG (read/write), Geosoft GXF (read) and Arc/Info Binary Grid (read). A full list is available in <a href="formats_list.html">Supported Formats</a>.<p> The <a href="mailto:gdal-dev@yahoogroups.com">gdal-dev@yahoogroups.com</a> mailing list can be used for discussion of development and user issues related to GDAL and related technologies. Subscriptions can be done, and archives reviewed <a href="http://www.yahoogroups.com/list/gdal-dev/">on the web</a>.<p> <a href="hierarchy.html">API Documentation</a> exists for GDAL, and was created using Doxygen. <p> <h2>Bug Reporting</h2> GDAL bugs <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GDAL">can be reported</a>, and <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/buglist.cgi?product=GDAL">can be listed</a> using BugZilla.<p> <h2>Download</h2> Binaries of the GDAL utility programs and the shared libraries are available for <a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal-115a-ntbin.zip">MS Windows NT/95/98</a> and <a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal-1.1.0_linux_bin.tar.gz"> Linux</a>.<p> The GDAL source is available by anonymous CVS or as a tarball:<p> <pre> % export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.remotesensing.org:/cvsroot % cvs login Password: anonymous % cvs checkout gdal </pre> Update access to the CVS repository can be obtained by arrangement with the maintainer. The CVS tree can also be <a href="http://www.remotesensing.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/osrs/gdal/">browsed on the web</a>. The last full source release is available as <a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal116.zip">gdal116.zip</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal-1.1.6.tar.gz"> gdal-1.1.6.tar.gz</a>. <a href="gdal_building.html">Build instructions</a> are also available.<p> <h2>Key Documentation Entry Points</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="faq.html">GDAL FAQ</a> <li> <a href="gdal_utilities.html">GDAL Utility Programs</a> <li> <a href="gdal_building.html">Building GDAL From Source</a> <li> <a href="formats_list.html">Supported Formats</a> <li> <a href="gdal_datamodel.html">GDAL Data Model</a> <li> <a href="gdal_tutorial.html">GDAL API Tutorial</a> <li> <a href="gdal_drivertut.html">GDAL Driver Implementation Tutorial</a> <li> <a href="class_GDALDataset.html">GDALDataset</a> <li> <a href="class_GDALRasterBand.html">GDALRasterBand</a> </ul> <h2>Related Information</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/index.html">My other projects</a>, many of which are incorporated into GDAL or use GDAL.<p> <li> <a href="http://www.remotesensing.org/">RemoteSensing.ORG</a>: An organization for cooperative OpenSource work related to remote sensing. GDAL is hosted at remotesensing.org.<p> <li> <a href="http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/ogrhtml/class_ogrspatialreference.html">OGRSpatialReference</a>: My OGR encapsulation of OpenGIS projection definitions.<p> <li> <a href="http://openev.sourceforge.net">OpenEV</a>: An OpenGL/GTK/Python based graphical viewer which exclusively uses GDAL for raster access.<p> <li> <a href="http://www.ossim.org">OSSIM</a>: Another geospatial viewing and analysis environment which uses GDAL as one of several plugins.<p> <li> <a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/index.html">UMN MapServer</a>: A popular web mapping application with GDAL support.<p> <li> <a href="http://www.vterrain.org">Virtual Terrain Project</a>: The VTP libraries now use GDAL.<p> <li> GDAL is available as an RPM on the FreeGIS CD's, and list is listed at <a href="http://www.freegis.org">FreeGIS.org</a>.<p> </ul> </body> </html>
