{
 "id": "vicar-video-image-communication-and-retrieval-planetary-file-format",
 "name": "VICAR (Video Image Communication and Retrieval) Planetary File Format",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "vic",
   "vicar",
   "img"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "image/vicar"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/383"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q16965621"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "4c424c53495a453d",
    "notes": "VICAR Planetary File Format"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "VICAR Planetary File Format",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "4c424c53495a453d[30:39]{15}464f524d41543d27(48414c46|42595445|46554c4c|5245414c|444f5542|434f4d50|434f4d504c4558|574f5244|4c4f4e47)27"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The VICAR image file format is used primarily for storing planetary image data collected by both interplanetary spacecraft and Earth-based stations. Many astronomical and astrophysical organizations use and support the VICAR format. Full specifications available at http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/VICAR_file_fmt.pdf",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "ImageMagick",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org",
   "license": "ImageMagick License",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Converseen",
   "url": "https://converseen.fasterland.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 3.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "VICAR Image Processing System",
   "url": "https://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "vicar2png",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60521734",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/VICAR",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/383",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/383",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q16965621",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16965621",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "portable-network-graphics",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vicar out.png",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "tagged-image-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vicar out.tif",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "jpeg-file-interchange-format-1-02",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vicar out.jpg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webp",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vicar out.webp",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "gif",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.vicar out.gif",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Reduced to 256 colours.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  }
 ],
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 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}