GDAL

What is GDAL?

"GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats ... As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats (GDAL Documentation).

How is GDAL loaded?

The below can be used to view all of the installations of GDAL on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.

$ module avail |& grep -i "gdal"

Spatial/gdal/2.3.1/gcc-7.2.0

Spatial/gdal/2.3.2/gcc-7.2.0

How is GDAL invoked?

To invoke GDAL's configuration setter, use the below. For more on using GDAL, refer to here.

$ module load Spatial/gdal/2.3.2/gcc-7.2.0

$ gdal-config