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Convert between raster formats

You may prefer to work in one type of raster data versus another. Use the gdal_translate command to convert from one raster type to another:

gdal_translate -of GTiff input.grd output.tif

where:

• -of means "output file type"
• GTiff here we're specifying geotiff as our output
• input.grd this is the input file we want to convert. It is .grd type.
• output.tif this is the output file we want. Here we are outputting a .tif file.

Let's convert our "sf.tif" to "sf.png":

gdal_translate -of PNG sf_4269.tif sf_4269.png