Supported Raster and Vector Formats
Supported Raster Formats
| File Name | File Format |
|
|
Read | Predefined Import template | Write |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arc/Info BIL | .bil | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Arc/Info Binary Grid | .adf | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Envisat ASAR Files | .N1 | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Erdas Imagine Images | .img | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Erdas LAN | .lan .gis |
yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| ESRI ASCII Grid Files | .asc | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Generic[1] | All | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Geocoded [1] | All | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format | .gxf | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| GeoSoft Grid File 2.0 | .ggf | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
|
Geotif (incl. 64-bit float) |
.tif |
yes |
yes | yes | yes | |
| Gould LIPS | .lip | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Idrisi Raster | .idr | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Inpho UASMaster/SATMaster | .tif | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Intergraph Raster | .ers | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| JPEG (incl. EXIF) | .jpg | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| JPEG 2000 (incl. 64-bit float) | .jp2 | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Lidar LAS (up to v1.4) | .las | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| LASzip | .laz | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| National Imagery Transmission | .ntf | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| NCSA Hierarchical Data Format | .hdf4 .hdf5 |
yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| NITF 2.0 | .nit | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| PCIDSK | .pix | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| PCO SensiCam Files | .b16 | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Point Grey Research Ladybug camera driver | .pgr | yes | yes | |||
|
Portable Network Graphics |
.png | yes |
yes |
yes | yes | |
| SPANS Raster | .rnh | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Windows or OS/2 Bitmaps | .bmp | yes | yes | yes | yes |
[1] Import Templates may support additional instruments or image readers not listed here.
[2] png types supported are:
- png: input 8 bit layers - output 1 or more layers in 8 bit
- 16 bit png: input any bit type (if other than 16bit - values will be truncated to 16bit signed or unsigned) - output 1 or more layers in 16 bit (signed/unsigned depending on input layer)
- png (color table): input 1 to 3 layers (values are used to compute pseudo color table) - output 1 layer in 8 bit (pixel values contains color index, additionally color table is saved with 256 pseudo colors computed from input layers)
Furthermore eCognition supports the point cloud import from Trimble Business Center (TBC) projects.
For predefined import templates see:
UserGuide > Projects and Workspaces > Importing Scenes into a Workspace
and User Guide > Automating Data Analysis > Creating, Saving and Loading Workspaces
For more information about unlisted import templates contact Trimble support via: eCognition support
Supported Vector Formats
All formats supported for image layers also apply for thematic layers. Additionally, .shp vector files are supported. For polygon shapefiles and for .img files, the attribute table is automatically selected. For all other formats the respective attribute table has to be specifically indicated. From the Load attribute table dialog, the following file formats can be selected:
- .txt (ASCII text files)
- .dbf (Dbase files)
- .csv (comma separated values files)
| File Name | File Format |
|
|
Read | Write |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Shapefile |
.shp | yes | yes | yes | yes |
|
multipart shapefile |
.shp | yes | yes | yes | no |
| FileGDB | .gdb | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| geoJSON | .geojson | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| GeoPackage | .gpkg | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| PostGIS | .postgis | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Sqlite | .sqlite | yes | yes | yes | yes |
