Format
Digital Terrain Elevation Data
Summary
- Name
- Digital Terrain Elevation Data
- Identifiers
- PUID: x-fmt/314
- Format type
- GIS
- Description
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- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
dted,dt0,dt1,dt2,avg,min,max - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Digital Terrain Elevation Data
- Description
- User Header Label (UHL1), Western or Eastern Hemisphere, Northern or Southern Hemisphere, Data Set Identification(DSI). There is also security classification code (S, C, U, R) that appears in the file. Files with extensions .dt0, .avg, .min and .max are typically unclassified, while those with extensions dt1 and dt2 are typically classified.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute (Candidate Internal Signatures for File Formats in PRONOM Registry; 05/06/2010).
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
55484C31{7}(57|45){7}(4E|53){60}445349- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V45
- Release date
- 6 December 2010
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Added signature
Digital Terrain Elevation Data: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.