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Retired and deprecated raster file formats

ArcGIS Pro uses GDAL libraries and drivers for supporting raster formats. As the GDAL library is upgraded to include new formats, support for some existing formats are being retired or deprecated. This topic contains the list of retired raster formats and will be updated with deprecations expected in the upcoming releases.

Retired formats

The following raster formats were retired by GDAL and are no longer supported in ArcGIS Pro.

Format Version
Magellan Mapsend BLX/XLB 3.6
Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) 3.6
Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) 3.6
XPM 3.6
MrSID Lidar 3.4
Image Display and Analysis (IDA) 3.2
Intergraph CIT/COT 3.1

Deprecated formats

Support for the Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) raster format will be removed in a future release based on the GDAL library and driver updates.