Data Interoperability
Esri supports many data formats - those that are standards (such as KML and GML), and those that are so widely used people consider them to be standards. We build the ArcGIS platform to work directly with multiple data formats. The ArcGIS Interoperability Extension enables extract, transform and load (ETL) for data formats and data models.
Supporting your data formats
Esri ensures that you can access, use and store GIS data in the formats you already use.
Learn more about Spatial Data Management.
Feature Data
ArcGIS supports all the common feature data formats, including:
Geodatabases
Spatial databases
Shapefiles
CAD
JSON
GeoJSON
XML
Web Layers
Tabular data
ArcGIS can expose the spatial data hidden in your tabular data, including:
dBase
Microsoft Excel
Access
CSV
Raster & 3D Data
ArcGIS supports 200+ raster and 3D data formats for:
Satellite imagery
Aerial photography
Lidar data
JPEG
TIFF
GRIB
HDF
netCDF
LandSat
Worldview
LAS
Web and Real-Time Sensors
ArcGIS supports many web and real-time sensors, such as:
MEA
Sierra Wireless RAP
Trimble TAIP
Instagram
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
RSS
Twitter
