What is the difference between .arw and .vicar?
- Extension
- .arw
- .vicar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Camera
- Scientific
- Developer
- Sony
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Description
- Digital photograph captured by a Sony digital camera, and based on the TIFF specification; contains raw, uncompressed image data as captured by the camera's CCD; can be adjusted using image-editing software before exporting to common raster formats such as .JPG or .TIFF.
- The VICAR (Video Image Communication And Retrieval) Image file format is a flexible, image-processing and data format system used primarily by the planetary science community. Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for storing and managing digital images from space missions, VICAR files are designed to support a wide range of image types, including scientific and engineering data from various spacecraft instruments. This format is characterized by its ability to handle multi-dimensional arrays of data.
- MIME Type
- image/x-sony-arw
- image/x-vicar
- Sample
- sample.arw
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia