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Grid Translator Pro 1.1 for ArcGIS®: Version 1.1 is released on March 06, 2006. See what's new in this release.

Grid Translator Pro (GTP) for ArcGIS® is an add-on application for ArcGIS® and one stop solution for ArcGIS® users to enable a wide range of raster and imaging formats within the ArcGIS® suite products. ArcGIS® is a family of products developed by ESRI Inc. including desktop and server products.

To work properly, GTP for ArcGIS® requires one of the following versions of ArcGIS®: 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 or higher .

A 4 days fully functioning version of Grid Translator Pro for ArcGIS® can be downloaded at: Try it!

To purchase Grid Translator Pro for ArcGIS® you can now do it online: Purchase it!

GTP for ArcGIS® opens all the functionalities of ArcGIS® to more than 38 raster formats including the formats of the major GIS industry products: Idrisi, Surfer, PCI, Erdas, Vertical Mapper, Geosoft and MapInfo. With GTP for ArcGIS®, the user can import seamlessly a GIF image, a SRTM dataset, a SPOT image or a Surfer grid within the same process and the same tool.

GTP for ArcGIS® is built with ArcGIS® users in mind to allow them leverage their investment on ArcGIS® products and take advantage of the increasingly available and free data over the Internet. Examples of such data are: SRTM data (world wide), GTOPO30 (world wide) and SDTS (USA).

Using an original design GTP for ArcGIS® creates ArcGIS® grids using an automated and generic process. The import process is batch oriented allowing users to create ArcGIS® grids from multiple datasets and from a wide range of data formats using a single and unified user interface.

Whether you have a raster dataset produced by Surfer, Idrisi, PCI, Vertical Mapper, Geosoft or ENVI, a satellite image (SPOT, Radar, NOAA, NITF), a nautical chart (BSB), a bitmap image (GIF, Bitmap, Jpeg, PixMap), or a DEM (SRTM, SDTS, USGS DEM, GTOPO30, DTED); GTP for ArcGIS® will bring these data to ArcGIS® image format with few clicks.

List of formats supported by GTP for ArcGIS®
Format	Extension
PCI Disk	*.pix
Idrisi grids	.img, .rst
Surfer grids	*.grd
Geosoft grid exchange files	*.gxf
Vertical Mapper grids	*.grd
MapInfo Grid (requires MapInfo)	*.mig
ArcInfo ASCII grids	*.txt
ESRI BIL	*.bil
GTOPO30 files	*.bil
SRTM	*.hgt
Erdas Imagine	*.img
USGS SDTS DEM	*.ddf
USGS ASCII DEM	*.dem
Military Elevations (DTED)	.dt0, *.dt1
USGS DOQ old format	*.doq
USGS DOQ new format	*.nws
Japanese DEM	*.mem
PCI Raw	*.raw
Atlantis MFF grid
ENVI labelled raster	*.img
National Imagery Transmission Format	*.nitf
CEOS SAR Image	*.img
CEOS SPOT Image	*.cap
Envisat Image	*.nl
ELAS	*.elas
Fuji BAS Scanner Image
GSC Geogrid format
EOSAT Fast format
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b dataset
FIT image
MapTech BSB Nautical Charts	*.kap
X11 PixMap Format	*.xpm
Portable PixMap Format	.ppm, .pgm
GIF	*.gif
JPEG	.jpg, .jpeg
Bitmap	*.bmp
Tiff and Geotiff	.tif, .tiff, *.gtif

Examples of ArcGIS® grids created using GTP for ArcGIS®:

What's new in GTP 1.1 for ArcGIS®:

• New formats support: Erdas .lan and .gis raster files.

• Enhanced support for multi-bands datasets: When an input dataset has more than one band, it used to be converted to a multi-bands grid. This functionnality was changed to create instead an ERDAS Image file (.img) for better multi-band handling.

• Control points: Use control points if existent within the input dataset to create automatically the georeference information needed for the output grid.

• Projections: More projection definitions are added.

• User Interface: Made the user interface dialog resizable to allow the user more control on the user interface display when translating a wide range of grids.

• Fixed different bugs including the failure of translating large grids in some specific cases.