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type: software
title: GDAL
version: 3.12.3
date-released: 2026-03-17
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5884351
abstract: GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data
  formats that is released under an 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.
url: https://gdal.org
repository-code: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/
license: MIT
authors:
  - given-names: Even
    family-names: Rouault
    affiliation: Spatialys
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-0476
  - given-names: Frank
    family-names: Warmerdam
    affiliation: Planet Labs Inc
  - given-names: Kurt
    family-names: Schwehr
    affiliation: Google Inc
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5624-8190
  - given-names: Andrey
    family-names: Kiselev
  - given-names: Howard
    family-names: Butler
    affiliation: Hobu Inc
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-1380
  - given-names: Mateusz
    family-names: Łoskot
    affiliation: Cadcorp
  - given-names: Tamas
    family-names: Szekeres
  - given-names: Etienne
    family-names: Tourigny
  - given-names: Martin
    family-names: Landa
  - given-names: Idan
    family-names: Miara
  - given-names: Ben
    family-names: Elliston
  - given-names: Kumar
    family-names: Chaitanya
  - given-names: Lucian
    family-names: Plesea
    affiliation: Esri
  - given-names: Daniel
    family-names: Morissette
    affiliation: Mapgears Inc
  - given-names: Ari
    family-names: Jolma
  - given-names: Nyall
    family-names: Dawson
    affiliation: North Road
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9812-7584
  - given-names: Daniel
    family-names: Baston
    affiliation: ISciences, L.L.C.
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-1716
  - given-names: Craig
    family-names: de Stigter
    affiliation: Koordinates
  - given-names: Hiroshi
    family-names: Miura
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7754-0433

keywords:
  - GDAL
  - geospatial
  - raster
  - vector
  - conversion
  - processing
