This document defines the Bandwidth compression standards, conventions and guidelines required for use by the National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS).  It includes specifications on those standards, and implementation related conventions and guidelines to improve interoperability of NITFS compressed files within the United States Imagery and Geospatial System (USIGS).  Because the standards environment is constantly changing, this document will be updated on a periodic basis to adjust for refinements of existing standards and profiles of standards, as well as for the emergence of new standards and technologies.  Thus, this document shall contain references to Military Standards, commercial standards from the International Standards Organization (ISO), and guidelines to support vendors and developers as they develop NITFS tools and applications.

• N-0106-97, 25 August 1998 (499Kb .pdf file)