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Format

ERDAS Imagine Large Raster Spill File

Summary

Name
ERDAS Imagine Large Raster Spill File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1563
Format type
Aggregate
Description
.ige files are generated by ERDAS Imagine software, when the RRD file exceeds 2GB (or now 4GB, as suggested by some sources) in size. For these larger projects, two extra files are generated: .img files, and these ige files, which stores the actual image data.
Note
Specification: https://web.archive.org/web/20110205035551/http://home.gdal.org/projects/imagine/ige_format.html
File extensions
ige
Source
National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia

Internal signatures

ERDAS Imagine Large Raster Spill File

Note
Magic bytes: ERDAS_IMG_EXTERNAL_RASTER

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
45524441535F494D475F45585445524E414C5F524153544552
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V100

    Release date
    16 December 2021

    ERDAS Imagine Large Raster Spill File: Signature researched and samples provided by National Library of Australia.

    ERDAS Imagine Large Raster Spill File: Full entry added. Submitted by National Library of Australia.