What is the difference between .vicar and .j2c?
- Extension
- .vicar
- .j2c
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- Raster image format developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; stores an image that has been taken on a mission by NASA's spacecraft; also contains information that describes the structure and type of data along with a history of processing that has been done to the image.
- Bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 compression, which is similar to standard .JPG compression but uses a newer encoding standard that allows flexibility at the cost of computational complexity; can be viewed by most applications that support standard .JP2 files.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- sample.j2c
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia
- .j2c on Wikipedia