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Note: An alternative parser with the ID 'BILBIPBSQ' has become available (in FEWS release 2017.01 and newer), which better adheres to the official (ESRI) standards specifications for BIL/BIP/BSQ format files. For importing files from external sources it is recommended to use the 'BILBIPBSQ' import type, which is documented here: BIL BIP BSQ Parser
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The first column in the time files contains: YYYYMMDDHHMM, the second column the number of minutes in the timesteps. The second column is presently ignored and may be omitted.
BIL reader supports keyword PIXELTYPE to read data using float 32 or float 64
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