| format_acronym | format_descr |
|---|---|
| not filled | no format information filled in |
| UNKNOWN | Format not known |
| ARC | ARC/INFO format, unspecified |
| ARCE | ARC/INFO Export format |
| ARCG | ARC/INFO Generate format |
| ASCII | ASCII file, formatted for text attributes, declared format |
| BIL | Imagery, band interleaved by line |
| BIP | Imagery, band interleaved by pixel |
| BSQ | Imagery, band interleaved sequential |
| BUFR | WMO-Format for the observational data transmitted over the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) |
| CDF | Common Data Format |
| CFF | Cartographic Feature File (U.S. Forest Service) |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile |
| COORD | User-created coordinate file, declared format |
| DBF | dbase |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model format(U.S. Geological Survey) |
| DFAD | Digital Feature Analysis Data (Defense Mapping Agency) |
| DGN | Microstation format (Intergraph Corporation) |
| DIGEST | Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard |
| DLG | Digital Line Graph (U.S. Geological Survey) |
| DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data (MIL-D-89020) |
| DWG | AutoCAD Drawing format |
| DX90 | Data Exchange '90 |
| DXF | AutoCAD Drawing Exchange Format |
| ERDAS | ERDAS image files (ERDAS Corporation) |
| EPS | Encapsulated Postscript format |
| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format |
| GRASS | Geographic Resources Analysis Support System |
| GRIB | WMO format GRIdded Binary data |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| IDRISI | IDRISI format |
| IGDS | Interactive Graphic Design System format (Intergraph Corp.) |
| IGES | Initial Graphics Exchange Standard |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group format |
| LOCAL | not normalized local file format |
| MOSS | Multiple Overlay Statistical System export file |
| netCDF | network Common Data Format |
| NITF | National Imagery Transfer Format |
| ORACLE | ORACLE Data Base |
| PBM | Portable Bit Map format |
| PS | Postscript format |
| RPF | Raster Product Format (Defense Mapping Agency) |
| RVC | Raster Vector Converted format (MicroImages) |
| RVF | Raster Vector Format (MicroImages) |
| SDTS | Spatial Data Transfer Standard (Fed.Inf.Processing Stnd. 173) |
| SIF | Standard Interchange Format (DOD Project 2851) |
| SLF | Standard Linear Format (Defense Mapping Agency) |
| TGRLN | Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) Line format (Bureau of the Census) |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| VPF | Vector Product Format (Defense Mapping Agency) |
| XLS | Excel |
| XWD | X-Windows Dump |
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