National Imagery Transmission Format

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'''National Imagery Transmission Format''' ('''NITFS''', or '''NITF''') is a family of standards developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. It's a little difficult to figure out the scope of the standards, unless you are fluent in governmentese. In practice, it seems to be mainly used as a raster graphics file format, apparently for satellite imagery and the like.
 
'''National Imagery Transmission Format''' ('''NITFS''', or '''NITF''') is a family of standards developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. It's a little difficult to figure out the scope of the standards, unless you are fluent in governmentese. In practice, it seems to be mainly used as a raster graphics file format, apparently for satellite imagery and the like.
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This format is not related to [[News Industry Text Format]].
  
 
== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==

Revision as of 22:45, 28 March 2014

File Format
Name National Imagery Transmission Format
Ontology
Extension(s) .ntf
PRONOM fmt/364, fmt/365, fmt/366

National Imagery Transmission Format (NITFS, or NITF) is a family of standards developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. It's a little difficult to figure out the scope of the standards, unless you are fluent in governmentese. In practice, it seems to be mainly used as a raster graphics file format, apparently for satellite imagery and the like.

This format is not related to News Industry Text Format.

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