Format
National Imagery Transmission Format
Summary
- Name
- National Imagery Transmission Format
- Version
- 1.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.nitf
- PUID: fmt/364
- Format type
-
- Image (Raster)
- Aggregate
- Description
- 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 US Intelligence Community (IC) and other departments and agencies of the United States Government. The NITF provides a common basis for storage and digital interchange of images and associated data. The NITF can be used as a standard message format for dissemination of images and associated data (text, symbols, labels) via digital communications.
- File extensions
-
ntf - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
National Imagery Transmission Format 1.0
- Description
- File Profile and name version declaration, followed by reserved bytes and originating station id, followed by 14 byte file date and time sequence in form DDHHMMSSz(MON)YY, followed by 72 byte length file title alphanumeric sequence with 8 additional space bytes,to 1 byte file security classification declaration (T|S|C|R|U)
- Provenance
- Ongoing DROID research
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
4E49544630312E3130{16}[30:33][30:39][30:32][30:39][30:35][30:39][30:35][30:39]5A{3}[30:39][30:39]{80}(43|52|53|54|55)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V84
- Release date
- 21 January 2016
-
Updated
National Imagery Transmission Format 1.0: Added MIME.
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V52
- Release date
- 7 September 2011
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Added format
National Imagery Transmission Format 1.0: Outline entry added.
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Added signature
National Imagery Transmission Format 1.0: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.