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mp3 | Audio file format | Aug 1993 |
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| x EXE | Executable |
EXE is the common filename extension denoting an executable file (a program) in the DOS, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, Symbian, and OS/2 operating systems. Besides the executable program itself, many EXE files contain other components called resources...
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| x Wma | wma | Audio file format |
Audio file format from Microsoft
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| x Wmv | wmv | Video file format |
Video file format from Microsoft
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| x Disk image | Disk image |
A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, floppy disk, CD, or DVD, although an image of an optical disc may be referred to as an...
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| x ISO image | iso | Disk image |
An ISO image is an archive file (also known as a disc image) of an optical disc in a format defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This format is supported by many software vendors. ISO image files typically have a file...
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| x Disk cloning |
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Disk image |
Disk cloning is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an "image" file (Sometimes referred to as Ghost Imaging). Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step,...
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| x Boot image | Disk image |
A boot image is a type of disk image (a computer file containing the complete contents and structure of a Computer storage media). When it is transferred onto a boot device it allows the associated hardware to boot.
This usually includes the...
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| x Departmental boot image | Disk image |
A departmental boot image is a boot image for any computer that has been enhanced by adding some applications and passwords specific to a task or group or department in an organization. This has many of the advantages of a thin client strategy, but...
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| x Boot image control | Disk image |
A boot image control strategy is a common way to reduce total cost of ownership in organizations with large numbers of similar computers being used by users with common needs, e.g. a large corporation or government agency. This is considered part of...
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| x .dmg | .dmg | Disk image |
A file with the extension .dmg (an abbreviation for disk image) uses a disk image format commonly found on Mac OS X. The format allows secure password protection as well as file compression and hence serves both security and file distribution...
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| x Qcow | Disk image |
qcow is a type of disk image that can be used with the QEMU emulator, the other disc image format types being vvfat, vpc, bochs, dmg, cloop, vmdk, cow, and raw, depending on the OS. The qcow image grows as data is added, and supports AES encryption...
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| x Self mounting image | Disk image |
A self mounting image is a disk image format, commonly found on the Macintosh platform, that is encapsulated in an application that mounts it as a file system. When downloaded from the Internet, they are often in a BIN, BinHex or StuffIt file....
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| x Direct Access Archive | .daa | Disk image |
Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for disk image files. The format supports features such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. Popular disk image mounting...
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| x Universal Image Format | Disk image | ||||
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| x Nrg | nrg | Disk image |
A .nrg file is a proprietary CD image file format used by Nero Burning ROM, a utility suite made by Nero AG, to create and burn ISO 9660 CD images.
Other than Nero Burning ROM, a variety of software titles can use these image files. For example,...
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| x Geography Markup Language | GIS file formats |
The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic...
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| x USGS DEM | GIS file formats |
The USGS DEM standard is a geospatial file format developed by the United States Geological Survey for storing a raster-based digital elevation model. It is an open standard, and is used throughout the world. It has been superseded by the USGS's own...
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| x GIS file formats | GIS file formats |
A GIS file format is a standard of encoding geographical information into a file. They are created mainly by government mapping agencies (such as the USGS) or by GIS software developers.
Metadata often includes:
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| x Spatial Data Transfer Standard | GIS file formats |
Spatial Data Transfer Standard, or SDTS, is a standard used to describe earth-referenced spatial data. It was designed to easily transfer and use spatial data on different computer platforms.
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| x GeoTIFF | GIS file formats |
GeoTIFF is a public domain metadata standard which allows georeferencing information to be embedded within a TIFF file. The potential additional information includes projections, coordinate systems, ellipsoids, datums, and everything else necessary...
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| x Digital raster graphic |
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GIS file formats |
A digital raster graphic (DRG) is a digital image resulting from scanning a paper USGS topographic map for use on a computer. DRGs created by USGS are typically scanned at 250 dpi and saved as a TIFF. The raster image usually includes the original...
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| x Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing |
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GIS file formats |
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, or TIGER, or TIGER/Line is a format used by the United States Census Bureau to describe land attributes such as roads, buildings, rivers, and lakes, as well as areas such as census tracts...
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| x Geographic Data Files | GIS file formats |
Geographic Data Files or GDF is an interchange file format for geographic data. In contrast with generic GIS formats, GDF provides detailed rules for data capture and representation, and an extensive catalog of standard features, attributes and...
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| x Geographic data | GIS file formats |
Geographic data is about much more than electronic pictures of maps.
The geographic data that describes our world allows for city planning, flood prediction and relief, emergency service routing, environmental assessments, wind pattern monitoring...
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| x Geodatabase | GIS file formats |
A geodatabase is a database designed to store, query, and manipulate geographic information and spatial data. It is also known as a spatial database.
Within a spatial database, spatial data is treated as any other data type. Vector data can be...
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| x NTF | ntf | GIS file formats |
The National Transfer Format (NTF) is a file format designed in 1988 specifically for the transfer of spatial information; it is administered by the British Standards Institution. It is now the standard transfer format for Ordnance Survey digital...
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| x Geocoded photo | GIS file formats |
A geocoded photograph is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location. A geocoded image can be associated to geographical coordinates such as latitude, longitude and altitude, or to a street address.
In theory, every part of a...
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| x MapInfo Interchange Format | GIS file formats |
MapInfo Interchange Format is a map and database exporting file format of MapInfo software product. The MIF-file filename usually ends with .mif-suffix. Some MIF-files also have a related MID-file. The filename of a MID-file usually ends with .mid...
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| x Keyhole Markup Language | kml | GIS file formats |
Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization on existing or future Web-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. KML was developed for use with Google...
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| x Shapefile |
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shp | GIS file formats |
The ESRI Shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by ESRI as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among ESRI and other...
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| x MrSID | .sid | GIS file formats |
MrSID (pronounced Mister Sid) is an acronym that stands for multiresolution seamless image database. It is a file format (filename extension .sid) developed and patented by LizardTech for encoding of georeferenced raster graphics, such as...
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| x Controlled Image Base | GIS file formats |
Controlled Image Base or CIB is unclassified digital imagery, produced to support mission planning and command, control, communications, and intelligence systems. CIB is used as a map substitute for emergencies and crises in the event that maps do...
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| x DTED | GIS file formats |
DTED (or Digital Terrain Elevation Data) is a standard of digital datasets which consists of a matrix of terrain elevation values. This standard was originally developed in the 1970s to support aircraft radar simulation and prediction.
DTED supports...
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| x ECW | ecw | GIS file formats |
ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) is a proprietary wavelet compression image format optimized for aerial and satellite imagery. It was developed by Earth Resource Mapping, and is now owned by Leica Geosystems. The lossy compression format...
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| x GDAL | GIS file formats |
GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is a library for reading and writing raster geospatial data formats, and is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single...
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| x Well-known text | GIS file formats |
Well-known text (WKT) is a text markup language for representing vector geometry objects on a map, spatial reference systems of spatial objects and transformations between spatial reference systems. A binary equivalent, known as well-known binary ...
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| x MapInfo TAB format |
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GIS file formats |
The MapInfo TAB format is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by MapInfo as a proprietary format.
The basic file components for a MapInfo Professional data set are...
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| x NavPix | GIS file formats |
NavPix is the proprietary name applied by Navman to its technology that combines an image with geographical data.
The "NavPix" name is used for both the software and the geo-referenced image that results from that software.
The NavPix technology...
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| x AIXM | GIS file formats |
The Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) is designed to enable the management and distribution of Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) data in digital format. AIXM version 5.0, set to be finalized in late 2007, is based on Geography...
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| x ArcInfo binary grid | GIS file formats |
An ESRI grid is a raster GIS file format developed by ESRI, which has two formats:
The formats were introduced for ARC/INFO. The binary format is widely used within ESRI programs, such as ArcGIS, while the ASCII format is used as an exchange, or...
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| x GIF |
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.gif | Graphics File Formats |
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format supports up to 8 bits per...
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| x JNG | Graphics File Formats |
JPEG Network Graphics (JNG, pronounced /ˈdʒɪŋ/) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure (with a different signature) as a container format to wrap JPEG encoded image data.
JNG was created...
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| x MNG | .mng | Graphics File Formats |
Multiple-image Network Graphics is a public graphics file format for animated images.
MNG is closely related to the PNG image format. When PNG development started in early 1995, developers decided not to incorporate support for animation, not least...
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| x Adobe Flash |
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flv | Graphics File Formats |
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and...
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| x Portable Document Format |
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Graphics File Formats | Jul 10, 2007 |
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe Systems, in 1993, for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document...
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| x PNG |
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.png | Graphics File Formats |
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. It is...
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| x PCX | .pcx | Graphics File Formats |
PCX is an image file format developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush (PCX = "Personal Computer eXchange") and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards,...
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| x Raster graphics |
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Graphics File Formats |
In computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image files with...
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| x Scalable Vector Graphics | .svg | Graphics File Formats |
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic (i.e. interactive or animated).
The SVG specification is an open standard that has been...
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| x Graphics File Formats | Graphics File Formats |
Here is a summary of the most common graphics file format:
Some file formats, e.g. PDF, allow both raster and vector graphics. This is because the underlying PostScript system of the Portable Document Format is designed to handle both methods of...
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| x JPEG 2000 |
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.j2c | Graphics File Formats | 2000 |
JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard (created 1992)....
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| x Portable pixmap |
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.pnm | Graphics File Formats |
The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats. The portable pixmap format (PPM), the portable graymap format (PGM) and the portable bitmap format (PBM) are image file formats...
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| x JPEG File Interchange Format |
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.jpg | Graphics File Formats |
The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is an image file format standard. It is a format for exchanging JPEG encoded files compliant with the JPEG Interchange Format (JIF) standard. It solves some of JIF's limitations in regard to simple JPEG...
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| x Windows Metafile | .emf | Graphics File Formats |
Windows Metafile (WMF) is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the early 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector and bitmap components. In contrast...
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| x VRML |
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Graphics File Formats |
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials, originally — before 1995 — known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics,...
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| x Tagged Image File Format | .tif | Graphics File Formats |
Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) is a file format for storing images, including photographs and line art. It is as of 2009 under the control of Adobe Systems. Originally created by the company Aldus for use with what was then called ...
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| .tiff | Image file formats | ||||
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| x Encapsulated PostScript | .eps | Graphics File Formats |
Encapsulated PostScript, or EPS, is a DSC-conforming PostScript document with additional restrictions intended to make EPS files usable as a graphics file format. In other words, EPS files are more-or-less self-contained, reasonably predictable...
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| x OpenEXR | Graphics File Formats |
OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), released under a free software license similar to the BSD license.
It is notable...
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| x DPX | Graphics File Formats |
Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) is a common file format for digital intermediate and visual effects work and is an ANSI/SMPTE standard (268M-2003). The file format is most commonly used to represent the density of each colour channel of a scanned...
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