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GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that
is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license. As a library, it
presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for
all supported formats.  The related OGR library (which lives within
the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple
features vector data. It includes roughly 60 format drivers. 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)
	* Arc/Info Binary Grid 	(read)
A full list is available at http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html.