What is the difference between .vicar and .g4?
- Name
- VICAR Image
- Group 4 FAX
- Extension
- .vicar
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Scientific
- Fax
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- 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.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia