Esri supports many data formats to ensure data and product interoperability. Formats include standard KML and GML as well as other widely used formats that are considered standard.

We build the ArcGIS system to work with multiple data formats. The ArcGIS Data Interoperability Extension enables extract, transform, and load (ETL) for data formats and data models.

Supporting Data Formats

Esri ensures that you can access, use and store GIS data in the formats you already use.

Feature Data

ArcGIS supports all the common feature data formats, including: Geodatabases, Spatial databases, Shapefiles, CAD, JSON, GeoJSON, XML and Web Layers

Tabular data

ArcGIS can expose the spatial data hidden in your tabular data, including: dBase, Microsoft Excel, Access and CSV

Raster & 3D Data

ArcGIS supports 200+ raster and 3D data formats for: Satellite imagery, Aerial photography, Lidar data, JPEG, TIFF, GRIB, HDF, netCDF, LandSat, Worldview and LAS

Web and Sensors

ArcGIS supports many web and real-time sensors, such as: MEA, Sierra Wireless RAP, Trimble TAIP, Instagram, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), RSS and Twitter

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Product Interoperability

Esri provides focused solutions to support your specialised workflows.