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To address this gap between EO data and GIS, the barriers and strategies of integrating various types of EO data with GIS are explored, especially with the popular Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) that is used by many GISs to access EO data. The research investigates four key technical aspects: (i) designing a generic plug-in framework for consuming different types of EO data; (ii) implementing the framework to fix the errors in GIS when using GDAL to understand EO data; and (iii) developing extension for commercial and open source GIS (i.e., ArcGIS and QGIS) to demonstrate the usability of the proposed framework and its implementation in GDAL. 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