Access Virtually Any Type of Data

IDL provides built-in support for the data sources, data types, file formats, and file sizes you use. Use IDL to access common formats like TIFF, JPEG, DICOM, and DXF, hierarchical scientific data formats like HDF, HDF-EOS, CDF, and netCDF, as well as custom binary and ASCII formats. And, since IDL is designed for large, multi-dimensional data, no job is too complex.

Receive data from remote servers or write files to a disk at a remote location using common protocols. IDL acts as a client to HTTP and FTP servers, and provides access to common Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) servers such as Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS).

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