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 "id": "national-imagery-transmission-format-2-0",
 "name": "National Imagery Transmission Format",
 "category": "image",
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   "nitf"
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    "notes": "National Imagery Transmission Format 2.0"
   }
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    "name": "National Imagery Transmission Format 2.0",
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 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "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.",
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   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license"
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  {
   "name": "ENVI",
   "url": "https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/Products/ENVI",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
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  {
   "name": "GDAL",
   "url": "https://gdal.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "NITF File Parser",
   "url": "https://www.sdms.afrl.af.mil/index.php?collection=tools_nitf",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "NITRO",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28516482",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 / GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/365",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/365",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q26218335",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26218335",
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  }
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 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "2.0",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "national-imagery-transmission-format"
}