Description

This article is from the Scientific Data Format Information FAQ, by Ilana Stern ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu with numerous contributions by others.

10 Scientific Data Format: Miscellaneous graphics formats

These formats for storing graphics files -- TIFF, GIF, JPEG, FLI, CGM,
and so on -- are more properly discussed in the newsgroup comp.graphics.
A small amount of documentation on these and other graphics formats is on
<URL:ftp://zamenhof.cs.rice.edu/pub/>; other archive sites
are <URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/misc/file.formats/graphics.formats>, and
<URL:ftp://telva.ccu.uniovi.es/pub/graphics/>.

The site <URL:http://www.crs4.it/HTML/LUIGI/MPEG/mpegfaq.html> has information
on the MPEG format.

The comp.graphics FAQ and resource file have more information on where
to find read and conversion programs for these formats. You can find
them at <URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/>.

A good (hardcopy) reference for graphics formats is _Graphics
File Formats_, by David C. Kay and John R. Levine (Windcrest Books,
ISBN 0-8306-3060-0, about US$30.00 in paperback).

See section 17 for information on GeoTIFF.

 

Continue to:

• prev: 09 Scientific Data Format: PDS
• Index
• next: 11 Scientific Data Format: SAIF

Share and Enjoy

Tags

science, engineering, scientific data formats, CDF, FITS, GRIB, HDF, netCDF, VICAR, PDS, Miscellaneous graphics formats, SAIF, SDTS, HDS, MedFileS, CXF, JCAMP, CIF, OpenMath, GeoTIFF, DLG-3, DEM