| Arcinfo ASCII
| - | Arcinfo ascii format -- can be imported into ArcInfo, ArcGIS.
Does not work well for large images.
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| IDA image files
| - | Image Display and Analysis -- a public domain GIS program called
WINDISP. One byte images, scaling is stored in the header.
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| LAN image files
| - | ERDAS ver 7 LAN image files -- reads directly into ArcInfo as an
image, can be converted. One byte images (though the format can support
two byte integers), scaling is not stored in the header.
Under Development
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| TIFF image files
| - | very flexible standard for image files: extensions exist to
support all sorts of binary formats, though individual programs may
not cover all the possibilities.
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| GeoTIFF
| - | geolocation standard inserted into TIFF files
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| WCS
| - | Web Coverage Server -- wrapper around TIFF files for
communicating directly between clients and data servers.
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