MIL-HDBK-1300A
National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS)
   
   
  Overview:
   
  The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is the standard for formatting digital imagery and imagery-related products and exchanging them among members of the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and other departments and agencies of the United States Government.  This handbook describes the NITFS and its image and communications processing components.
   
  The NITFS component documents are as follows:
   
 
  • MIL-STD-2500A, National Imagery Transmission Format (Version 2.0) for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
  • MIL-STD-2301, Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) Implementation Standard for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
  • MIL-STD-188-196, Bi-Level Image Compression for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
  • MIL-STD-188-197A, Adaptive Recursive Interpolated Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ARIDPCM) Compression Algorithm for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
  • MIL-STD-188-198A, Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Image Compression for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
  • MIL-STD-188-199, Vector Quantization Decompression for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
  • MIL-STD-2045-44500, Tactical Communications Protocol 2 (TACO2) for the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard.
 
   
  Review:
  • MIL-HDBK-1300A, National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS),
    12 October 1994 (535Kb .pdf file)
   
 
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