VICAR

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== Overview ==
 
 
'''VICAR''' ('''Video Image Communication And Retrieval''') is a raster image file format associated with the ''VICAR Image Processing System'' software, which is associated with NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
 
'''VICAR''' ('''Video Image Communication And Retrieval''') is a raster image file format associated with the ''VICAR Image Processing System'' software, which is associated with NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
  
 
Sometimes this format is called '''VICAR2'''. Or maybe there are actually two different formats – it's not clear.
 
Sometimes this format is called '''VICAR2'''. Or maybe there are actually two different formats – it's not clear.
 
It appears that a VICAR file may have an associated [[PDS]]-like label file, whose first line contains the string "<code>SFDU_LABEL</code>".
 
  
 
== Identification ==
 
== Identification ==
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== Specifications ==
 
== Specifications ==
 
* [http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/VICAR_file_fmt.pdf The VICAR file format]
 
* [http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/VICAR_file_fmt.pdf The VICAR file format]
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* [ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/misc/file.formats/graphics.formats/VICAR2.format VICAR2 Image File Format]
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== Software ==
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* [[ImageMagick]]
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* [http://snisurset.net/code/abydos/ abydos]
  
 
== Sample files ==
 
== Sample files ==
 
* http://atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/review/Jupiter/Cassini_Maps/ → *.map
 
* http://atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/review/Jupiter/Cassini_Maps/ → *.map
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* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/vicar/
  
 
== Resources ==
 
== Resources ==
 
* [http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html The VICAR Image Processing System]
 
* [http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html The VICAR Image Processing System]
* [http://www.fileformat.info/format/vicar2/egff.htm VICAR2 File Format Summary]
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* {{EGFF|vicar2|VICAR2 File Format Summary}}, from the [[Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats]]
  
 
[[Category:Scientific Data formats]]
 
[[Category:Scientific Data formats]]

Revision as of 17:38, 1 August 2020

File Format
Name VICAR
Ontology
Extension(s) (none), .vic, .vicar, .img, many others
PRONOM fmt/383
Released ~1966

VICAR (Video Image Communication And Retrieval) is a raster image file format associated with the VICAR Image Processing System software, which is associated with NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

Sometimes this format is called VICAR2. Or maybe there are actually two different formats – it's not clear.

Contents

Identification

VICAR files begin with the ASCII string "LBLSIZE", which begins a "label" section containing space-separated attribute definitions, with no newlines.

There is no standard filename extension. If the filename has an extension, it may reflect the content of the image, rather than the file format.

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