This article is from the Scientific Data Format Information FAQ, by Ilana Stern ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu with numerous contributions by others.
A new set of TIFF tag extensions for georeferencing raster data within
TIFF 6.0, GeoTIFF, was announced July 1995. Information is available
at <URL:http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/cartlab/geotiff/geotiff.html> and
specifications and source code are available via ftp at
<URL:ftp://mtritter.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/geotiff/>. A mailing list for discussion
of the development of this standard is geotiff@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov; to
subscribe send email to geotiff-request@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov with
subscribe geotiff your-name-here
as the body of the message.
 
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