MIL-STD-188-199 establishes the requirements to be met by NITFS compliant systems when image data are decompressed using the vector quantization (VQ) compression algorithm.  This allows NITFS compliant systems to accept and decompress data that are compressed using a VQ compression scheme.  This standard describes the VQ compression in the general requirements section, but does not fully describe the steps for compression.  It fully describes the steps involved in decompressing VQ compressed images.

• MIL-STD-188-199, 27 June 1994 (349Kb .pdf file)
• NOTICE 1, 27 June 1996 (223Kb .pdf file)
• NOTICE 2 - Administrative, 31 March 2004 (6.3Kb .pdf file)