GDAL

Purpose:

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a translator library for vector and raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

Features:

• supports over 40 different raster formats
• available for other applications to use
• prebuilt utilities

A&H use case 1 description:

“A Vision of Britain through Time” project has used GDAL to ensure that every geo-tiff had a corresponding world file containing its geographical data which was used together with the ordinary tiff to re-create the geo-tiff once all image processing operations were complete.

Creator:

Frank Warmerdam

Publisher:

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Manual input and transcription

Specifications:

JPEG

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

C++