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# File Formats

## Image File Formats

Format | Description
--- | ---
BMP | Windows Bitmap format
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group format
JPEG 2000 | JPEG 2000 format
MPEG 1 & 2 | Moving Picture Experts Group format
NRIF | NCAR Raster Interchange Format
PICT | Macintosh version 2 PICT files (bitmap only)
PNG | Portable Network Graphics format
PGM | Portable Gray Map Format
PPM | Portable Pixmap Format
SRF | Sun Raster File Format
TIFF | 8-bit or 24-bit Tagged Image File format
X11 Bitmap | X11 Bitmap format used for reading bitmaps for IDL widget button labels
XWD | Windows Dump Format

## Scientific Data Formats

Format | Description
--- | ---
CDF | Common Data Format v 3.4.1
DICOM | Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine
GeoTIFF | TIFF file with tags containing geographic data
GRIB/GRIB2 | GRIddedBinary Format
HDF | Hierarchical Data Format version 4.2 r8
HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format version 5-1.8.4
HDF-EOS | Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System version 2.18
KML/KMZ | Google Earth™ mapping service format and compressed format
MrSID | Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database format
NetCDF | Network Common Data Format, all formats: classic, 64-bit offset, and NetCDF4
OPeNDAP | OPeNDAP via NetCDF

## Video Formats

Format | Description
--- | ---
AVI | Audio Video Interleave
FLV | Adobe Flash Video
GIF | Animated GIF
MJPEG2000 | Motion JPEG2000 format
MPEG 1 & 2 | Moving Picture Experts Group format
MP4 | MPEG-4
SWF | Adobe Flash
WEBM | Google WebM

## Other Data Formats

Format | Description
--- | ---
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BIL, BIP, BSQ | ArcGIS Raster
Binary | Digital data encoded as a sequence of bits
CSV | Comma-Separated Value
DXF | Drawing eXchange Format
EPS | Encapsulated PostScript
ESRI Shapefile | Stores non-topological geometry and attribute information
IMG | ENVI image
PDF | Portable Document Format
PS | PostScript
SYLK | Symbolic Link Format
VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WAV | Microsoft Waveform Format
WAVE | Wavefront Advanced Data Visualizer Format
XDR | eXternal Data Representation
XML | eXtensible Markup Language