ER Mapper Raster

ER Mapper Raster (sometimes called ERS) is a raster image file format associated with the ER Mapper and ER Viewer products currently owned by Hexagon Geospatial. "ER" stands for Earth Resource.

It was once owned by ERDAS, so it may be called ERDAS ER Mapper, or a similar name.

It consists of a text-based .ers file containing image attributes and metadata, and another file (usually with no extension) containing the image data.

See also ER Mapper Vector.

Identification
The .ers file likely begins with a line that reads " ", and contains a line that reads " ".

Specifications

 * Hexagon Geospatial Documentation Portal → Search for "ER Mapper Raster File Format" and "Raster Datasets and Header Files".

Software

 * GDAL
 * Image Alchemy

Links

 * GDAL page on ERS
 * Hexagon Geospatial website