GDAL#
GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source License by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. 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.
Read more about GDAL on their website.
Licensing#
Released under an X/MIT style Open Source License by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
The GDAL module on the HPC#
The GDAL module can be loaded into your environment with the following command:
$ module add gdal
The GDAL module is available on ARC3 and ARC4:
System |
Version |
Command |
|---|---|---|
ARC4 |
GDAL 2.4.2 |
|
ARC3 |
GDAL 2.2.3 |
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