Working With Rasters In File Geodatabase (.gdb) With GDAL

I'm working on a tool that converts raster layers to arrays for processing with NumPy, and ideally I would like to be able to work with rasters that come packaged in a .gdb without

Solution 1:

Currently both FileGDB and OpenFileGDB drivers handle only vector datasets. Raster support is not part of Esri's FGDB API.

You will need to use Esri tools to export the rasters to another format, such as GeoTIFF.

Solution 2:

I've just released a prototype program Arc Raster Rescue which extracts raster data from the ArcGIS File Geodatabase format.