Scientific Data formats

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Scientific Data formats

General

• cdf (Common Data Format)
• hdf (Hierarchical Data Format, from NASA)
• NetCDF (Network Common Data Format)
• XDF (eXtensible Data Format)

Astronomical

• FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)

Chemical

• Chemical data

Geographic and Geospatial

See also Geospatial

• GeoTIFF (Geospatial extensions to TIFF)
• SAIF (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Canadian)
• SDTS (Spatial Data Transfer Standard)

Mathematical

• MathML

Medical Imaging

• DICOM

Meteorological and Oceanographic

• GRIB (Grid in Binary)
• BUFR (Binary Universal Format Representation)
• IOAPI (netCDF augmented with metadata from the I/O API)

Physics

• QCDml (Lattice QCD gauge configuration markup language)