For example, the above produces the following output using gdal 1.11.2 compiled with libgeotiff 1.4.0, libpng 1.6, libjpeg-turbo 1.3.1, libjasper 1.900.1 and libecwj2 3.3:: Usage: gdal_translate [--help-general] [--long-usage] [-ot {Byte/Int16/UInt16/UInt32/Int32/Float32/Float64/ CInt16/CInt32/CFloat32/CFloat64}] [-strict] [-of format] [-b band] [-mask band] [-expand {gray|rgb|rgba}] [-outsize xsize[%] ysize[%]] [-unscale] [-scale[_bn] [src_min src_max [dst_min dst_max]]]* [-exponent[_bn] exp_val]* [-srcwin xoff yoff xsize ysize] [-projwin ulx uly lrx lry] [-epo] [-eco] [-a_srs srs_def] [-a_ullr ulx uly lrx lry] [-a_nodata value] [-gcp pixel line easting northing [elevation]]* [-mo "META-TAG=VALUE"]* [-q] [-sds] [-co "NAME=VALUE"]* [-stats] [-norat] src_dataset dst_dataset GDAL 1.11.2, released 2015/02/10 The following format drivers are configured and support output: VRT: Virtual Raster GTiff: GeoTIFF NITF: National Imagery Transmission Format HFA: Erdas Imagine Images (.img) ELAS: ELAS AAIGrid: Arc/Info ASCII Grid DTED: DTED Elevation Raster PNG: Portable Network Graphics JPEG: JPEG JFIF MEM: In Memory Raster GIF: Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) XPM: X11 PixMap Format BMP: MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap PCIDSK: PCIDSK Database File PCRaster: PCRaster Raster File ILWIS: ILWIS Raster Map SGI: SGI Image File Format 1.0 SRTMHGT: SRTMHGT File Format Leveller: Leveller heightfield Terragen: Terragen heightfield ISIS2: USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) ERS: ERMapper .ers Labelled ECW: ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 3.x) JP2ECW: ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 3.x) FIT: FIT Image JPEG2000: JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1) RMF: Raster Matrix Format RST: Idrisi Raster A.1 INGR: Intergraph Raster GSAG: Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) GSBG: Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) GS7BG: Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) R: R Object Data Store PNM: Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) ENVI: ENVI .hdr Labelled EHdr: ESRI .hdr Labelled PAux: PCI .aux Labelled MFF: Vexcel MFF Raster MFF2: Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster BT: VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format LAN: Erdas .LAN/.GIS IDA: Image Data and Analysis LCP: FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) GTX: NOAA Vertical Datum .GTX NTv2: NTv2 Datum Grid Shift CTable2: CTable2 Datum Grid Shift KRO: KOLOR Raw ARG: Azavea Raster Grid format USGSDEM: USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) ADRG: ARC Digitized Raster Graphics BLX: Magellan topo (.blx) Rasterlite: Rasterlite PostGISRaster: PostGIS Raster driver SAGA: SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat) KMLSUPEROVERLAY: Kml Super Overlay XYZ: ASCII Gridded XYZ HF2: HF2/HFZ heightfield raster PDF: Geospatial PDF ZMap: ZMap Plus Grid