Description:

LibKEA is a project to provide an implementation of the GDAL
specification within the the HDF5 file format. Specifically, the
format will support raster attribute tables (commonly not included
within other formats), image pyramids, GDAL meta-data, in-built
statistics while also providing large file handling with compression
used throughout the file. Being based on the HDF5 standard, it will
also provide a base from which other formats could be derived and will
be a good choice for long term data archiving. An independent software
library (libKEA) has been provided through which complete access to
the KEA image format is provided alongside a GDAL driver allowing KEA
images to be used through any GDAL supported software.