EOMasters Toolbox Basic

IO Formats

You use GPT and need to specify a data format name, but you don't know which are supported by SNAP? The "ioformats" command will help you.

Example:
Unix: snap --ioformats
Windows: snap64 --ioformats

To prevent the GUI and splash screen from showing, add also --nogui and --nosplash

This will give you a list of all readable and writable data formats. For each element is formatted like:

ClassName (package path)
   Description: A short description
   Format Names: List of format names
   File Extensions: List of file extensions
Following snippets of the output: 
Readable Data Formats:
ACE2_5MinReaderPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dem.dataio.ace2_5min)
   Description: ACE2 Data Product Tile
   Format Names: ACE2
   File Extensions: .ACE2

ACEReaderPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dem.dataio.ace)
   Description: ACE Data Product Tile
   Format Names: ACE
   File Extensions: .ACE

AatsrLevel1ProductReaderPlugIn (eu.esa.opt.dataio.s3.aatsr)
   Description: (A)ATSR Level 1 in Sentinel-3 product format
   Format Names: ATS_L1_S3
   File Extensions: .xml

Alos2GeoTiffProductReaderPlugIn (eu.esa.sar.io.ceos.alos2)
   Description: ALOS-2 GeoTIFF data product.
   Format Names: ALOS-2 GeoTIFF
   File Extensions: tif, tiff, zip

Alos2ProductReaderPlugIn (eu.esa.sar.io.ceos.alos2)
   Description: ALOS-2 CEOS Products
   Format Names: ALOS-2 CEOS
   File Extensions:

  ...

Writable Data Formats:
BMPDriverProductWriterPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dataio.gdal.writer.plugins)
   Description: MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap
   Format Names: GDAL-BMP-WRITER
   File Extensions: .bmp

BTDriverProductWriterPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dataio.gdal.writer.plugins)
   Description: VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format
   Format Names: GDAL-BT-WRITER
   File Extensions: .bt

BeamNetCdf4WriterPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dataio.netcdf.metadata.profiles.beam)
   Description: BEAM NetCDF4 products
   Format Names: NetCDF4-BEAM
   File Extensions: .nc

BigGeoTiffProductWriterPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dataio.bigtiff)
   Description: GeoTIFF / BigTIFF data product
   Format Names: GeoTIFF-BigTIFF
   File Extensions: .tif, .tiff

COGDriverProductWriterPlugIn (org.esa.snap.dataio.gdal.writer.plugins)
   Description: Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
   Format Names: GDAL-COG-WRITER
   File Extensions: .tif

  ...