BECS GDAL Connector


About GDAL

GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing (for more info see: https://gdal.org/).

BECS GDAL Connector enables to connect GDAL library and has one general function enabling to perform this operation:

 

GDAL Raster and Vector formats:

Raster drivers
AAIGrid – Arc/Info ASCII Grid
ACE2 – ACE2
ADRG – ADRG/ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
AIG – Arc/Info Binary Grid
AIRSAR – AIRSAR Polarimetric Format
ARG – Azavea Raster Grid
BAG – Bathymetry Attributed Grid
BLX – Magellan BLX Topo File Format
BMP – Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
BSB – Maptech/NOAA BSB Nautical Chart Format
BT – VTP .bt Binary Terrain Format
BYN - Natural Resources Canada’s Geoid file format (.byn)
CAD – AutoCAD DWG raster layer
CALS – CALS Type 1
CEOS – CEOS Image
COASP – DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
COG – Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF generator
COSAR – TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product
CPG – Convair PolGASP data
CTable2 – CTable2 Datum Grid Shift
CTG – USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid
DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver)
DDS – DirectDraw Surface
DERIVED – Derived subdatasets driver
DIMAP – Spot DIMAP
DIPEx – ELAS DIPEx
DOQ1 – First Generation USGS DOQ
DOQ2 – New Labelled USGS DOQ
DTED – Military Elevation Data
ECRGTOC – ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml)
ECW – Enhanced Compressed Wavelets (.ecw)
EEDAI - Google Earth Engine Data API Image
EHdr – ESRI .hdr Labelled
EIR – Erdas Imagine Raw
ELAS - Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software
ENVI – ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
ESAT – Envisat Image Product
ESRIC – Esri Compact Cache
ERS – ERMapper .ERS
EXR – Extended Dynamic Range Image File Format
FAST – EOSAT FAST Format
FIT – FIT
FITS – Flexible Image Transport System
GenBin – Generic Binary (.hdr labelled)
Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
GFF – Sandia National Laboratories GSAT File Format
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
GPKG – GeoPackage raster
GRASS Raster Format
GRASSASCIIGrid – GRASS ASCII Grid
GRIB – WMO General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form
GS7BG – Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid File Format
GSAG – Golden Software ASCII Grid File Format
GSBG – Golden Software Binary Grid File Format
GSC – GSC Geogrid
GTA - Generic Tagged Arrays
GTiff – GeoTIFF File Format
GXF – Grid eXchange File
HDF4 – Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 (HDF4)
HDF5 – Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)
HEIF / HEIC – ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 High Efficiency Image File Format
HF2 – HF2/HFZ heightfield raster
HFA – Erdas Imagine .img
RST – Idrisi Raster Format
ILWIS – Raster Map
IRIS – Vaisala’s weather radar software format
ISCE – ISCE
ISG – International Service for the Geoid
ISIS2 – USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 2)
ISIS3 – USGS Astrogeology ISIS Cube (Version 3)
JDEM – Japanese DEM (.mem)
JP2ECW – ERDAS JPEG2000 (.jp2)
JP2KAK – JPEG-2000 (based on Kakadu)
JP2Lura – JPEG2000 driver based on Lurawave library
JP2MrSID – JPEG2000 via MrSID SDK
JP2OpenJPEG – JPEG2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library
JPEG – JPEG JFIF File Format
JPEGXL – JPEG-XL File Format
JPIPKAK - JPIP Streaming
KEA
KMLSuperoverlay – KMLSuperoverlay
KRO – KOLOR Raw format
LAN – Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS
L1B – NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
LCP – FARSITE v.4 LCP Format
Leveller – Daylon Leveller Heightfield
LOSLAS – NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift
MAP – OziExplorer .MAP
MRF – Meta Raster Format
MBTiles
MEM – In Memory Raster
MFF – Vexcel MFF Raster
MFF2 – Vexcel MFF2 Image
MrSID – Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database
MSG – Meteosat Second Generation
MSGN – Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Native Archive Format (.nat)
NDF – NLAPS Data Format
NetCDF: Network Common Data Form
NGSGEOID - NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
NGW – NextGIS Web
NITF – National Imagery Transmission Format
NTv2 – NTv2 Datum Grid Shift
NWT_GRD/NWT_GRC – Northwood/Vertical Mapper File Format
OGCAPI – OGC API Tiles / Maps / Coverage
OZI – OZF2/OZFX3 raster
JAXA PALSAR Processed Products
PAux – PCI .aux Labelled Raw Format
PCIDSK – PCI Geomatics Database File
PCRaster – PCRaster raster file format
PDF – Geospatial PDF
PDS – Planetary Data System v3
PDS4 – NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4)
PLMosaic (Planet Labs Mosaics API)
PNG – Portable Network Graphics
PNM – Netpbm (.pgm, .ppm)
PostGISRaster – PostGIS Raster driver
PHOTOMOD Raster File
Rasdaman GDAL driver
Rasterlite - Rasters in SQLite DB
RasterLite2 - Rasters in SQLite DB
R – R Object Data Store
RDB - RIEGL Database
RIK – Swedish Grid Maps
RMF – Raster Matrix Format
ROI_PAC – ROI_PAC
RPFTOC – Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc)
RRASTER – R Raster
RS2 – RadarSat 2 XML Product
SAFE – Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product
SAR_CEOS – CEOS SAR Image
SAGA – SAGA GIS Binary Grid File Format
SDTS – USGS SDTS DEM
SENTINEL2 – Sentinel-2 Products
SGI – SGI Image Format
SIGDEM – Scaled Integer Gridded DEM
SNODAS – Snow Data Assimilation System
SRP – Standard Product Format (ASRP/USRP) (.gen)
SRTMHGT – SRTM HGT Format
STACIT - Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items
STACTA - Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
Terragen – Terragen  Terrain File
TGA – TARGA Image File Format
TIL – EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
TileDB - TileDB
TSX – TerraSAR-X Product
USGSDEM – USGS ASCII DEM (and CDED)
VICAR – VICAR
VRT – GDAL Virtual Format
WCS – OGC Web Coverage Service
WEBP - WEBP
WMS – Web Map Services
WMTS – OGC Web Map Tile Service
XPM – X11 Pixmap
XYZ – ASCII Gridded XYZ
Zarr
ZMap – ZMap Plus Grid

 

Vector drivers
AmigoCloud
(Geo)Arrow IPC File Format / Stream
Arc/Info Binary Coverage
Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage
CAD – AutoCAD DWG
Carto
Comma Separated Value (.csv)
CSW - OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web)
Microstation DGN
Microstation DGN v8
AutoCAD DWG
AutoCAD DXF
Google Earth Engine Data API
EDIGEO
Elasticsearch: Geographically Encoded Objects for Elasticsearch
ESRIJSON / FeatureService driver
ESRI File Geodatabase (FileGDB)
FlatGeobuf
GeoConcept text export
GeoJSON
GeoJSONSeq: sequence of GeoJSON features
GeoRSS : Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
GMLAS - Geography Markup Language (GML) driven by application schemas
GML - Geography Markup Language
GMT ASCII Vectors (.gmt)
GPKG – GeoPackage vector
GPSBabel
GPX - GPS Exchange Format
GRASS Vector Format
SAP HANA
IDB
Idrisi Vector (.VCT)
“INTERLIS 1” and “INTERLIS 2” drivers
JML: OpenJUMP JML format
KML - Keyhole Markup Language
LIBKML Driver (.kml .kmz)
Dutch Kadaster LV BAG 2.0 Extract
MapML
Memory
MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID
MongoDBv3
MSSQLSpatial - Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Database
MVT: Mapbox Vector Tiles
MySQL
NAS - ALKIS
NetCDF: Network Common Data Form - Vector
NGW – NextGIS Web
UK .NTF
OGC API - Features
Oracle Spatial
ODBC RDBMS
ODS - Open Document Spreadsheet
OGDI Vectors
ESRI File Geodatabase (OpenFileGDB)
OSM - OpenStreetMap XML and PBF
(Geo)Parquet
PDF – Geospatial PDF
PDS - Planetary Data Systems TABLE
PostgreSQL SQL Dump
ESRI Personal GeoDatabase
PostgreSQL / PostGIS
PLScenes (Planet Labs Scenes/Catalog API)
IHO S-57 (ENC)
SDTS
Selafin files
ESRI Shapefile / DBF
Norwegian SOSI Standard
SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
Storage and eXchange Format - SXF
U.S. Census TIGER/Line
TopoJSON driver
VDV - VDV-451/VDV-452/INTREST Data Format
VFK - Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format
VRT – Virtual Format
WAsP - WAsP .map format
WFS - OGC WFS service
XLS - MS Excel format
XLSX - MS Office Open XML spreadsheet

 

 

BECS GDAL Connector Documentation

 

 

How to install BECS GDAL Connector

BECS GDAL Connector Prerequisites
BECS GDAL Connector requires:

BECS Server version 5.5 or higher
BECS Visual Architect version 5.5 or higher

​​​​​​​BECS GDAL Connector Installation Procedure
The whole process will drive following steps: