GeoTIFF
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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 to establish the exact spatial reference for the file. The GeoTIFF format is fully compliant with TIFF 6.0, so software incapable of reading and interpreting the specialized metadata will still be able to open a GeoTIFF file.

History

The GeoTIFF format was originally created by Dr. Niles Ritter while he was working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.^[1]

See also

• Digital raster graphic
• GDAL - Open source GeoTIFF reader/writer
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

References

External links

• GeoTIFF web site

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