Format
National Imagery Transmission Format
Summary
- Name
- National Imagery Transmission Format
- Version
- 2.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.nitf
- PUID: fmt/365
- 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
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
National Imagery Transmission Format 2.0
- Description
- File Profile and name version declaration, followed by numercial complexity level (2 bytes), followed by 4 resereved bytes, followed by 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
4E49544630322E3030[30:39][31:39]20202020{10}[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 2.0: Added MIME.
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V52
- Release date
- 7 September 2011
-
Added format
National Imagery Transmission Format 2.0: Outline entry added.
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Added signature
National Imagery Transmission Format 2.0: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.