diff --git a/src/raster/tests.rs b/src/raster/tests.rs
index e2574f3a2..efddb58f7 100644
--- a/src/raster/tests.rs
+++ b/src/raster/tests.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 use crate::dataset::Dataset;
 use crate::metadata::Metadata;
 use crate::raster::rasterband::ResampleAlg;
-use crate::raster::{ByteBuffer, ColorEntry, ColorInterpretation, ColorTable, GdalTypeDescriptor, RasterCreationOption, StatisticsAll, StatisticsMinMax};
+use crate::raster::{
+    ByteBuffer, ColorEntry, ColorInterpretation, ColorTable, GdalTypeDescriptor,
+    RasterCreationOption, StatisticsAll, StatisticsMinMax,
+};
 use crate::test_utils::TempFixture;
 use crate::vsi::unlink_mem_file;
 use crate::Driver;
 use gdal_sys::GDALDataType;
 use std::path::Path;
 
+use gdal_sys::GDALDataType::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "ndarray")]
 use ndarray::arr2;
 
@@ -891,6 +895,7 @@ fn test_raster_stats() {
 }
 
 #[test]
+#[allow(non_upper_case_globals)]
 fn test_gdal_data_type() {
     for t in GdalTypeDescriptor::available_types() {
         // Test converting from GDALDataType:Type
@@ -898,5 +903,26 @@ fn test_gdal_data_type() {
         assert_eq!(t, &t2, "{}", t);
         assert!(t.bits() > 0, "{}", t);
         assert_eq!(t.bits(), t.bytes() * 8, "{}", t);
+        let name = t.name().unwrap();
+        match t.gdal_type() {
+            GDT_Byte | GDT_UInt16 | GDT_Int16 | GDT_UInt32 | GDT_Int32 | GDT_UInt64 | GDT_Int64 => {
+                assert!(t.is_integer(), "{}", &name);
+                assert!(!t.is_floating(), "{}", &name);
+            }
+            GDT_Float32 | GDT_Float64 => {
+                assert!(!t.is_integer(), "{}", &name);
+                assert!(t.is_floating(), "{}", &name);
+            }
+            o => panic!("unknown type ordinal '{}'", o),
+        }
+        match t.gdal_type() {
+            GDT_Byte | GDT_UInt16 | GDT_UInt32 | GDT_UInt64 => {
+                assert!(!t.is_signed(), "{}", &name);
+            }
+            GDT_Int16 | GDT_Int32 | GDT_Int64 | GDT_Float32 | GDT_Float64 => {
+                assert!(t.is_signed(), "{}", &name);
+            }
+            o => panic!("unknown type ordinal '{}'", o),
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/raster/types.rs b/src/raster/types.rs
index 993ac1803..5cc51e696 100644
--- a/src/raster/types.rs
+++ b/src/raster/types.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
-pub use gdal_sys::GDALDataType;
-use gdal_sys::{GDALGetDataTypeName, GDALGetDataTypeSizeBits, GDALGetDataTypeSizeBytes};
 use crate::errors::{GdalError, Result};
 use crate::utils::{_last_null_pointer_err, _string};
+pub use gdal_sys::GDALDataType;
+use gdal_sys::{
+    GDALDataTypeIsFloating, GDALDataTypeIsInteger, GDALDataTypeIsSigned, GDALGetDataTypeName,
+    GDALGetDataTypeSizeBits, GDALGetDataTypeSizeBytes,
+};
+use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
 
 /// Type-level constraint for limiting which primitive numeric values can be passed
 /// to functions needing target data type.
@@ -73,12 +76,31 @@ impl GdalTypeDescriptor {
 
     /// Get the gdal type size in **bits**.
     pub fn bits(&self) -> u8 {
-        unsafe { GDALGetDataTypeSizeBits(self.gdal_type()) }.try_into().unwrap()
+        unsafe { GDALGetDataTypeSizeBits(self.gdal_type()) }
+            .try_into()
+            .unwrap()
     }
 
     /// Get the gdal type size in **bytes**.
     pub fn bytes(&self) -> u8 {
-        unsafe { GDALGetDataTypeSizeBytes(self.gdal_type()) }.try_into().unwrap()
+        unsafe { GDALGetDataTypeSizeBytes(self.gdal_type()) }
+            .try_into()
+            .unwrap()
+    }
+
+    /// Returns `true` if data type is integral (non-floating point)
+    pub fn is_integer(&self) -> bool {
+        (unsafe { GDALDataTypeIsInteger(self.gdal_type()) }) > 0
+    }
+
+    /// Returns `true` if data type is floating point (non-integral)
+    pub fn is_floating(&self) -> bool {
+        (unsafe { GDALDataTypeIsFloating(self.gdal_type()) }) > 0
+    }
+
+    /// Returns `true` if data type supports negative values.
+    pub fn is_signed(&self) -> bool {
+        (unsafe { GDALDataTypeIsSigned(self.gdal_type()) }) > 0
     }
 
     /// Subset of the GDAL data types supported by Rust bindings.
@@ -93,7 +115,7 @@ impl GdalTypeDescriptor {
             GdalTypeDescriptor(GDT_UInt64),
             GdalTypeDescriptor(GDT_Int64),
             GdalTypeDescriptor(GDT_Float32),
-            GdalTypeDescriptor(GDT_Float64)
+            GdalTypeDescriptor(GDT_Float64),
         ]
     }
 }
@@ -110,10 +132,11 @@ impl TryFrom<GDALDataType::Type> for GdalTypeDescriptor {
     fn try_from(value: GDALDataType::Type) -> std::result::Result<Self, Self::Error> {
         let wrapped = GdalTypeDescriptor(value);
         if !GdalTypeDescriptor::available_types().contains(&wrapped) {
-            Err(GdalError::BadArgument(format!("unknown GDALDataType {value}")))
+            Err(GdalError::BadArgument(format!(
+                "unknown GDALDataType {value}"
+            )))
         } else {
             Ok(wrapped)
         }
     }
 }
-